Visual Metaphors in Set and Properties Design for ‘Setengah Nada Bergeming’ Film Trailer

In a film production, production design is an important aspect that supports the narrative or story. In production design visual metaphors are often used as concepts for sets and props which have the ability to transform a long text into a shorter visual. Visual metaphor itself is a representation of a place, person, nature, and object that can be a tool to build a narrative as well as describe the nature of a character in a film. The use of visual metaphors can be done by understanding the characters in the film, because each have different characteristics and its own uniqueness. By understanding and using the 3-dimensional aspect of the character as the basis for the design of sets and props, production designers can apply visual metaphors in the design of sets and properties that are suitable for the needs of characters and narratives in films. This paper uses a qualitative approach which elaborates the process of applying visual metaphors into the set and properties design, by using the 3-dimensional character theory as the base for producing the short film trailer entitled Setengah Nada Bergeming. This research finds that by dissecting each element of the 3-dimensional character, production designer can intensify not only how a character is represented and how its contributes in building the entire narrative of the story. Keyword: visual metaphors, 3-D characters, sets, properties, short film, trailer.

Symbol of Door as Mary in Images of the Annunciation of the 14th-15th Centuries

The current article addresses the topic of the symbolic identification of the Virgin Mary as a door according to a double possibility, namely, as an open door and as a shut door. This implies designating Mary simultaneously as ianua coeli and as porta clausa. These two possibilities suggest very different, though complementary, doctrinal meanings. Through the textual analysis of various quotes from the Church Fathers and theologians and medieval liturgical hymns referring to one or other of these two metaphorical expressions, the Author will determine the doctrinal meanings inherent in each one. In the second instance, the iconographic analysis of seven images of the Annunciation from the 14th and 15th centuries that include some door in special conditions will allow us to validate the hypothesis that the intellectual authors of these seven paintings introduced that door into them as a visual metaphor capable of illustrating both textual metaphors of porta clausa and ianua coeli.

Graphic Narratives of Open Scholarship

Public engagement and collaboration through networked practices—known as networked participatory scholarship (NPS)—may influence academic culture to “support, amplify, and transform scholarship” (Veletsianos & Kimmons, 2012, p. 768). This study examined the open online scholarly community #FemEdTech as it engages in NPS to create, collect, and curate value statements to generate iterative codes of conduct. Contents of tweets that include the Twitter hashtags #FemEdTech and #FemEdTechValues were thematized. The findings are represented as a visual metaphor of a map charting the fluid nature between policy design and implementation, described as the #FemEdTech Cartography. This collaborative policy creation can serve as a model to shift academic culture towards more socially just practices using open scholarship to address the pressing issues of our time.

VISUAL METAPHOR AND WAYS OF ITS IDENTIFICATION

В статье описываются процедуры идентификации и моделирования визуальной метафоры. Используемая в этих целях методика аннотирования позволяет выявить логику визуальной метафоризации с последующей адаптацией выявленных метафорических моделей к различным типам дискурсивных практик. The article deals with the procedures of identification and modeling of visual metaphor. The described methods help identify the patterns of visual metaphorization which may be further used in different types of discourse.

Close-Up Eye-Asymmetry Visual Metaphor Communicates the Abject: Evidence from Batman and Superman Comics

A distinctive theme of Gothic narratives is the abject. A character that is abject threatens to disrupt boundaries, both personal and societal. As such, the abject character must be rejected or destroyed by society. In this study, I provide evidence that the visual metaphor of Close-Up Eye Asymmetry (CUE-A) communicates the concept of the abject. I compare how often CUE-A is used when depicting Batman compared to Superman in comic books. Overall, I provide evidence that: (1) Batman is Gothic, (2) Batman is more Gothic than Superman, (3) Batman is abject, and (4) Batman is depicted with CUE-A more often than Superman. Taken together, this supports the conclusion that the CUE-A visual metaphor does, in fact, communicate the abject.

An Ouroboros of Self-Sustainability

This essay introduces the relationship between artists and the creative infrastructures that make their work possible by using the visual metaphor of the ouroboros, the serpent eating its tail. The ouroboros efficiently describes this relationship between art and business, or rather the relationship between art and money.

VISUALISASI MELALUI PENDEKATAN METAFORA PADA POSTER NORTH meet SOUTH = UNITY

Poster is a two-dimensional visual media with large format that is useful for conveying commercial, social, cultural, political messages. Large format is used to display messages through images. Images on a poster are generally large and have a strong appeal so that it can attract the attention of the public immediately see it. The development of posters began in the late 17th century until now. European countries have an excellent poster tradition. Germany is one of them, the growth of posters in the country became part of the life of its modern society. Many moral and social messages that inspire reason are delivered routinely. Plaque-Sozial e.V. und vom Bund Mitteldeutscher Grafdesigner or social poster association and graphic designer Germany regularly holds competitions and exhibitions on an international scale. In the middle of 2016, a competition and exhibition was held for the third time with the theme "Vision". Participants consisted of artists and poster designers from all over the world. Poster works by the author were also selected by the jury and exhibited at The Association of German Museums for Galvanotechnik e. V. Leipzig, Germany takes place from August 13-25, 2016. The author displays poster visualization through a metaphorical approach. Key words : poster, visual metaphor

‘Seeing’ music from manga: visualizing music with embodied mechanisms of musical experience

This study investigates how music is represented in musical-themed manga by visual components referred to as ‘visualized music’, and how embodied mechanisms of musical experience conceive these visual manifestations. Using Šorm and Steen’s (2018) Visual Metaphor Identification Procedure (VISMIP), the authors discovered four metaphors, and seven metonymies and ‘manpu’ (i.e. iconic signs used in manga) that are widely applied in visualizing music. In addition, they incorporated Juslin and Västfjäll’s (2008) framework and further proposed five major embodied mechanisms of musical experience: (1) brain stem reflex, (2) emotional contagion, (3) visual imagery, (4) emotional memory related to music, and (5) musical expectancy. Their results showed that these embodied mechanisms are the foundations of visualized music. The brain stem reflex, the underlying structure of most metonymies and manpu, triggers us to represent some acoustic characteristics by using sound symbolic components. These include emotional contagion-inducing metaphors representing emotional responses, such as ‘ MUSIC/EMOTION IS WEATHER’, which further entails their acoustic characteristics and visual imagery, the most important mechanism, basing our overall comprehension of music and metaphorical mapping between music and image-schemata. Readers also use emotional simulations to understand the visual imagery that further constructs their impressions toward music, emotional memory grounding manifestations related to music used to build background stories and intensify reader empathy, and lastly, musical expectancy, involving the ability of prediction and consciousness, usually associated with ‘ MUSIC IS LIGHT’. In this way, this study sheds light on our overall understanding of audio-visual cross-modality, musical experience, metaphor and embodied experience.

Supporting Enrollment in Higher Education Through a Visual Recommendation System

Nowadays, most universities offer programmes and subjects online, specially in the case of fully online open/distance universities. Students have a higher degree of flexibility, which allows them to choose among an endless list of subjects for advancing within their degree. Although this can be seen as a positive result of enrollment flexibility policies, it may be also the source of one of the most well-known problems in open/distance education: high dropout rates, partly caused by inadequate enrollment. In this paper we propose a recommendation system that helps students to navigate through the list of available subjects using a visual metaphor, taking into account students’ preferences and previous enrollment data. Our system is based on a two-dimensional map (2D) where subjects that can be taken together appear close to each other, as neighboring regions.