EN 3174 Lecture Notes - School District 36 Surrey, Judy Blume, Peter Parnell
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No approach of the picture book can overlook the visual design. Visual codes design and image work as a form of communication, as important as the words themselves. Babar bright green suit, the hat, the spats, Like the other elephants, however emerges from the herd that distinguish and define who he is. The plain, the literal, the iconic sense. We are to distinguish the two between them. Seeing and interpreting the words/pictures to begin with. The layout if the object on the page. The handling of the line and color. The position of the subject on the page. Taken him out from being part of the herd, and now as him as an independent. His potion of happiness is ended when his mother is shot by the hunters. Such thinking will continue onto the next page, as he escapes to the city. Code of line lines the illustrator uses to create the visual.
