Distinctively Visual Analysis Examples

This image portrays a man and a woman in the foreground, supposedly reading and looking over important documents. To the left of them, in the midground is a man who looks concerned and distressed, but unlike the people in the front, he is standing up. It looks like they are in a cottage, with exposed wood walls. In the background you can see what first drew my eye in this image, the dominant, which is a child standing outside a window. He looks so ‘off’ where he stands, there is nothing but white nothingness around him and he looks terribly lonely.

As we proceed, the thing that got my attention, the subsidiary contrast, was the woman (the mother, so I am told). She takes up one third of the image, has dark sleek hair, and is dressed in seemingly dark clothes. She looks calm and indifferent to what will, or has just happened. It puzzles me, as I have not seen the film myself. My eyes wander between the woman, and the man on the left - and the difference between them is astonishing. She looks proper and orderly, whereas he has light messy hair and more relaxed (in a sense) clothing. …show more content…
The woman is the one in charge, the clear focus of the moment. The important-looking man in the middle has his body turned towards her, suggesting that he favours her attention. He is however, looking at the other man if with somewhat of an irritated