How do composers use distinctively visual elements to reveal and explore important ideas? Discuss how effectively these images have been used in John Misto’s ‘ The shoe Horn Sonata ‘ and one other related text of your choosing.

Composers use distinctively visual images in order to engage their audience, this allowing the writer to have the story expressed their ideal way. This is done through the composer's use of language or visual techniques to induce distinctive images into the reader’s mind. The play ’The Shoe Horn Sonata by John Misto, and the film ‘Beneath Hill 60’, directed by Jeremy Sims have both illustrated just how effectively distinctively visual texts have the power to provoke reactions of pleasure or anger. The intentions of both texts are to promote the audience to question the …show more content…
Low ceilings and narrow alleys provided the setting, yet the tightly framed shots provided a realistic dimension of the spaces. In the scene where the miners were building an attack tunnel to prevent the Germans from intercepting their explosives, six of the miners were all framed into a single shot depicting how tight space was in the attack tunnel. The camera angle was so tight that it was impossible to pan the camera in the tunnel; therefore, the cinematographer had to rely on shot-reverse-shots to depict the ongoing conversations. Close-up shots are also used extensively in this film to demonstrate the anguish and pain that accompanied them throughout the war. The facial expressions, coupled with mud and grime, are evident almost throughout the film, and the close-up shots allow the audiences to appreciate the tormenting conditions. The shots were done so successfully that one could almost smell the sweat and blood of the miners as they went about performing their