Are you as confused as i am? :@
Anywhoooo? well i decided to start by finding out what Drew-sensei (my teacher) ment by "Visual Language". Now where to start but the very basic and inacurrate at times "Wikipedia", yes yes i know it can sometimes be absolute crap but hey, its worth a look.
Now as you can see from my link above lovely wiki has provided use with a very basic opening sentence to what is the meaning of "Visual Language".
"The visual language is a system of communication using visual elements"
So its a way of communicating through the look of something instead of the words or sound. So now i need to know what Language is "the prisoner" speaking to me ? lol lets go into more detail. i continued to read down this wiki page and i came across a quote i quite liked which made things alot clearer for me.
"Just as people can 'verbalize' their thinking, they can 'visualize' it. A diagram, a map, and a painting are all examples of uses of visual language."
Now knowing this just clears my mind yet confuses it too. basically everything i see in the episodes of "the prisoner" is part of there visaul language. so now im just going to work off the main objects and images seen in the first episode i watched.
Aaron, When we are looking at examining these "visual language markers" we need to look for key, stand out design features that speak to us.
ReplyDeleteThe egg chair is the perfect example, what that object embodies about the new technologies used in it's creation, the modernist design and the use of the the object in the "Control room" speak to the audience, both of the time, and now of the "futuristic" and technology based nature of the prison, and the entity which runs it.
:)