Toolkit 6 Researching Life Through Textual Amd Visual Analysis

Question 1

Why are representations so powerful?

Answer 1

It is important to make se se of a specific space or place, examining not only the material elements but also the various ways in which that space or place has been represented

Question 2

?? (Fill the word in) become part of the very meanings of places

Answer 2

Representations

Question 3

What is textual and visual analysis?

Answer 3

Looking for ideologies, views, messages, presences, silences, flaws, unspoken power relations ect

Question 4

How much can you tell from the written word?

Answer 4

A lot we live in an Information Age and are surrounded by technology which is a rich data source

Question 5

What does Schwartz (2003) say about photographs?

Answer 5

That they were spaces where facts, in visual for, were stored and communicated, ordered and conceptualised, reconstituted and transformed by an imperial gaze into the myths and metaphors oflave and identity

Question 6

What are the various questions that you should ask about a photo?

Answer 6

What is shown in the photo
What is the photographer wanting us to think and feel
What is not shown in the photo
What is just outside the frame
Why has the photographer taken the photo ?

Question 7

What does de Costa suggest about filmmaking?

Answer 7

Suggests a methodology which should co spider the film maker, the film structure , location , camerawork, sound , inter textually and the audience

Question 8

What does discourse refer to?

Answer 8

A group of statements that structure the way a thing is thought eg NHS effect on early motherhood, gender roles