Visual and Verbal

Refunctioning and Re-recognising

Visual and Verbal

Situation: Consider a topic where you can convey a message through a small-scale handmade book or concertina using images, symbols and text

Discovery: Research topics that are of interest to you that could be refunctioned or re-recognised. An example: refunctioning for medical reasons-to support lifestyle changes that people have to make. What is something you are curious about?

Ideation: Brainstorm ideas for your design. Select some features that you could use yourself. Source text and create images for your visual text.

Visual techniques could include:

• Imagery, such as stock images, image manipulation using software to modify or create your visual elements

• Camera shots and angles (for example close up/medium/long shots, wide angle, low/high angle shots, zoom, pan)

• Colour

• Symbol

• Editing, layout, positioning and sequencing.

Verbal techniques could include

• Humour

• Rhyming

• Dialogue

• Quotation

• Lyrics 

Experimentation: Craft your visual text Draft, rework, and reshape your visual text. Make sure your visual text is as well-crafted and integrated as you can make it.

Outcome: Make a small-scale book or concertina on a topic that you feel could be Re-recognised – changing how something is seen or valued or Refunctioned