Visual Story Research Articles

Analisis Penggunaan Bahasa Indonesia pada Film “Tenggelamnya Kapal Van Der Wijck”

The film "The Sinking of Van Der Wijck's Ship" is the work of the nation's children in which not only tells the visual story but there is the application of Indonesian that can implement the Indonesian people themselves. This analysis is intended to find, research, and assess the use and application of Indonesian in films made by the State of Indonesia. The analytical method used in this study uses qualitative methods where this article focuses on finding errors in the use of language, examining existing vocabulary, and assessing Indonesian pronunciation. This is important so that films are not only a means of entertainment but can provide indirect knowledge about the use of Indonesian.

Queer Psycho and the He Circus: Applying Queering, Magic, and More-than-Human Theories to Immersive Visual Story Worlds as an Antidote to Late Capitalism

Abstract Two immersive visual story worlds (IVS), Queer Psycho and HE Circus, are at the center of this article, one made by each of us. Individually we found our works necessitated the development of new frameworks for IVS construction, namely (1) Brechtian a-effect and queering, and (2) magic and more-than-human theories. These new framings were needed to realize our desire to use IVS to create spaces of active resistance from psychological harm imposed by political and ableist structures designed with rigid ways of seeing the world through straight/neoliberal lenses. When both story worlds and their frameworks are viewed side-by-side, they lay bare the prejudices and normative framings of IVS software and industries. Thus, the outline of these new framings with this article makes an original contribution to the field by calling into question those who are designing IVS software and typical frameworks by asking who and what they are benefiting, and proposing alternatives to illustrate how neither should be considered fixed. Finally, the topic of each IVS, that of Hitchcock's Psycho and neoliberal structures of contemporary higher education, offer critiques of systems which serve to highlight our arguments.

The Management of Social Media Content at Kebun Surgawi Mengwi with Visual Story Telling Approach

The Kebun Surgawi Mengwi is an initiative of one of the PIG Bali (Pusaka Indonesia) cadres named Ni Putu Eka Ernita or her nickname Mbok Eka. The main purpose of activating this garden is not just to make a profit but rather to bring people closer to nature and learn directly from it. However, this good initiative is not yet widely known on social media platforms due to a miss in content management. So the author intends to contribute knowledge in the field of visual story telling for their social media accounts. The author in this project uses the Participatory Rural Appraisal (PRP) method by acting as a special content creator for the 1st anniversary of the presence of gardens on the Instagram platform. As a result, the Instagram appearance of Kebun Surgawi Mengwi, has become friendlier and has received a positive response from its followers. Thus it is possible for plantation managers to expand their business and collaborate with more established similar initiatives.

A car showroom for the fish: The visual story of the first-ever artificial reef in Italy and the beginning of contemporary environmental discourse (Varazze, December 1970)

In October 1970, the city of Genoa was devastated by a major flood. A few weeks later, hundreds of wrecked cars removed from the city's streets were sunk off the coast of Varazze, in the first-ever Italian project to create an artificial reef. This initiative, which was inspired by similar experiences tried out in the United States and other countries, had been aimed at increasing the fish population and protecting the seabed but was carried out without any thorough preliminary scientific study, and produced other effects not in the initial intentions of the project. Nonetheless, this story should be read as one point in the broadest trajectory in the evolution of environmental discourse. This contribution, based on hitherto unpublished visual documentation, is therefore an investigation into the very specific meaning of the environment in Italy at the beginning of the 70s. The first part of the article provides a reconstruction of the operational details involved in creating the new underwater seascape of Varazze while in the second part, the earlier examples of similar initiatives are described, as well as the reactions of the scientific community. In conclusion, we reflect on the legacy of the initiative, both at the environmental level and as a basic step in the relationship between visual media and contemporary environmental discourse.

Examining Filem Negara Malaysia's Animated Public Service Announcement on Public Health and Safety Issues

The former government-owned production house Filem Negara Malaysia or FNM was responsible for recording major historical events and generating thematic government campaigns. The most typical ones in this regard are animated public service announcements (PSAs) that address public health and safety issues. Despite its significance, little research has been conducted on its content, including the visual story and message intent. In light of this, a sample animated PSA titled Nyamuk Aedes, produced in 1978, was examined in this study. According to the findings, the plot of Nyamuk Aedes (1978) can be divided into three acts: 1. the setup; 2. the confrontation; and 3. the resolution. There are also artistic impressions, Anthropomorphic cartoon characters, and amusing elements. As a visual narrative strategy, this animated PSA employs a binary opposition notion and a fear-based appeal to influence audience perception. We conclude that FNM's animated PSA not only communicates important public health and safety issues, but also helps to build a nation.

Development of Visual Stories Infographics on Dietary and Physical Activity Management for Hypertension

Background: Hypertension is a non-communicable disease that requires lifestyle intervention. Patients need to be educated on dietary and physical activity management for hypertension. Visual stories and infographics are one of the educational tools that can be effective for this purpose. Objective: This study aimed to develop and evaluate visual story infographics based on their level of understandability, actionability, and suitability. Methods: This study employed a cross-sectional study design that came in three phases: (I) content analysis, (II) design and development, and (III) evaluation. Ten healthcare professionals in the fields of medicine and dietetics evaluated the visual story infographics on their understandability, actionability, and suitability using the Patient Education Materials Assessment Tool for printable material (PEMAT-P) and Suitability Assessment of Materials (SAM). Results: The visual story infographics consisted of 25 pages covering dietary and physical activity management to control hypertension. Clinical guidelines for hypertension were used to develop the content of the infographics. The infographics were designed and developed using the Canva application. Bahasa Malaysia was used for the infographics as it is the national language. The infographics received a 98.8% understandability score and a 100% actionability score. Meanwhile, the overall score for the suitability rating was 86.6%. Conclusion: Overall, the newly developed infographic material ranked highly for understandability, actionability, and suitability. This finding indicated that the visual stories and infographics were well received by the healthcare professionals who were responsible for the management of patients with hypertension.

НИМБ ПОЯВЛЯЮЩИЙСЯ И ИСЧЕЗАЮЩИЙ: СЕМИОТИКА ОБРАЗОВ В РУССКОЙ ИКОНОПИСИ

The article discusses the ways of using halos in Russian iconography. The sign of holiness was borrowed from ancient art is among the most frequently used and important in Christian painting. In different parts of the Christian world, many variants of the halos appeared; they were used in many situations. The halo could be depicted in various colors, different shapes (crossshaped, eight-pointed, with letters, geometric patterns), sometimes marking the characters depicted in that way. The halo distinguished not only saints, also representatives of a certain stratum, and rank (monks, bishops, priests) or characters occupying a high position on the hierarchical ladder, up to and including Lucifer and demonic characters of the Apocalypse. In Russian art, such examples remained rare. However, halos had another important role: they helped to display the dynamics of events in a visual story. Appearing or disappearing from the characters, the halos indicated the moment of the acquisition of holiness or the loss of righteousness (the latter was primarily associated with the fall of Adam and Eve). The paper discusses examples of using the halos in non-obvious situations, ways of working with that sign, and the roles that it played in Russian art

Per una storia popolare di Parma: cinque racconti per immagini di una città che non c’è più

Per una Storia Popolare di Parma: Five Visual Stories about a City that no Longer Exists The article critically presents the Istituto Storico della Resistenza e dell’Età Contemporanea’s project Per una Storia Popolare di Parma - five short films, made by five directors, in collaboration with a group of historians focusing on different aspects of the city’s history. The different films are analysed individually for their technical and content specificities. In the conclusion some considerations are made on the whole, identifying the common traits among the different works.

Advantages and disadvantages of using Visual Storytelling to Teach English Vocabulary to Young Learners at Viet Anh Primary School

This research was conducted to investigate the use of visual storytelling in teaching English vocabulary to young learners at Viet Anh Primary School in Vietnam’s context. Specifically, the research aimed to determine the possible advantages and disadvantages of using visual storytelling to teach vocabulary to young learners, as well as to explore specific solutions to disadvantages of using visual storytelling in teaching English vocabulary to young learners. The study followed a mixed-methods research design which collected both quantitative and qualitative data. Quantitative data was collected with a questionnaire, while qualitative data was collected with interviews. The study took place at Viet Anh Primary School in Ca Mau City and included 30 teachers from the school as participants. All the teachers responded to the questionnaire, whereas five teachers participated in the interviews. The findings revealed that teachers perceived various benefits associated with visual storytelling, including affective, cognitive, teaching, and behavioral/social benefits. Visual storytelling was considered an effective way to motivate students to learn vocabulary. The affective and cognitive benefits were perceived most prominently. Concerning the disadvantages, the findings showed that the teachers struggled with preparing relevant and suitable visual stories, evaluating students’ performances during visual storytelling activities, and preparing stories in a reasonable timeframe. The interview participants recommended solutions to address these challenges, which included using pre-made resources, effective time management, collaboration, involving students in the process, customizing content, utilizing various sources, observing engagement, and implementing assessments. The research findings can serve as a useful reference for English teachers of young learners and those with similar contexts.

Advanced 3D Visualization and 3D Printing in Radiology.

Since the discovery of X-rays in 1895, medical imaging systems have played a crucial role in medicine by permitting the visualization of internal structures and understanding the function of organ systems. Traditional imaging modalities including Computed Tomography (CT), Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) and Ultrasound (US) present fixed two-dimensional (2D) images which are difficult to conceptualize complex anatomy. Advanced volumetric medical imaging allows for three-dimensional (3D) image post-processing and image segmentation to be performed, enabling the creation of 3D volume renderings and enhanced visualization of pertinent anatomic structures in 3D. Furthermore, 3D imaging is used to generate 3D printed models and extended reality (augmented reality and virtual reality) models. A 3D image translates medical imaging information into a visual story rendering complex data and abstract ideas into an easily understood and tangible concept. Clinicians use 3D models to comprehend complex anatomical structures and to plan and guide surgical interventions more precisely. This chapter will review the volumetric radiological techniques that are commonly utilized for advanced 3D visualization. It will also provide examples of 3D printing and extended reality technology applications in radiology and describe the positive impact of advanced radiological image visualization on patient care.

Spatialised Visual Stories of Climate Change Impact in Greater Khartoum

Spatialised Visual Stories of Climate Change Impact in Greater Khartoum

Picturing the Arctic: digital imagery and the prospect of using search engines to collect data for interpretative political research

ABSTRACT Imagery frames reality, and political actors tell stories using images. In an increasingly digital communication landscape, political actors tell visual stories directly on websites or social media channels. This online shift places digital imagery centrally in how we picture political issues, events, and places. Digital images are mobile, circulable and appropriable, which means images are not fused to their immediately surrounding text. Telling a story with digital imagery constitutes a contribution toward a wider digital visual discourse, enabled by circulation. Interpretivist research lacks tools to unpack this digital visual discourse. This article critically evaluates a technique to tap into digital visual discourse using semi-automated data collection utilising search engines. Such data collection tools can divorce imagery from its immediately surrounding text and create a corpus that allows us to identify a digital visual discourse around a given topic. I draw on an attempt at scraping search engines to this end, studying how actors portray the Arctic. The technique is presented transparently with a call to engage with the tool, to spur methodological debates and innovation. Search engine scraping can, in the right research design and if applied critically, illuminate new dimensions of discourse by prying apart written text and imagery.

Billedtepper fra Gudbrandsdalen og sagnet om Heknesøstrene

An intriguing combination of tapestry weave, legend and myth arose in Gudbrandsdalen in the 17th century. The legend about the conjoined twin master weavers is still living as a local story, and is now being conveyed to an international audience through novels written by Lars Mytting. The legend is tightly connected to a distinct form of tapestry weave, depicting biblical stories and narratives rooted in medieval poetry. The traditional interaction between visual and oral storytelling might be an important key to understanding the textiles. Visual stories told through tapestries have a long tradition in Norway, traceable from the 9th century tapestries from the Oseberg Viking ship grave onto the tapestries from Gudbrandsdalen. The legends about the extraordinary weavers that created tapestries in Gudbrandsdalen provide an extra dimension, linking the idea of conjoined twins as creatures of paradox with the pre-Christian tradition of natural signs that had to be de-coded.

Islamic Brand Sahaja in Commercial TV Advertising Messages: Toward the Islamisation of the product

Commercial TV advertising can translate everything from the advertiser's goals through communicative, educative, and entertaining messages. As in the commercial TV advertisement message, Sahaja socialises the Islamic brand, which aims to be able to dialogue with the target market of Indonesian Muslims. This study aimed to determine the visual and narrative form of the Islamic brand of Sahaja's commercial TV advertising message. This study uses a qualitative approach with narrative analysis, how do communicators tell stories. The data collection techniques are observing Sahaja's advertising materials and literature study, analysing each ad frame and duration individually, and selecting and grouping according to the research focus for data presentation. In conclusion, Sahaja's commercial TV commercial carries #NawaituSahaja as its creative foundation. It shows a visual story of a happy family living their life and worship with white domination. Five essential keys visible reflections of Islamic brands narrate the form of a brand that identifies with Islamic characteristics. This research is expected to help provide input or reference for further research and considerations in building an Islamic brand.

The Condemnation of Avarice as “Demonic Instigation” in the Illustrations of Synodics of the Early Modern Period

This article examines visual methods of condemning avarice, which makes a person who wants a luxurious life for themselves and their family easy prey to the devil. The study refers to a series of illustrations for the parable About the Spendthrift, which was part of the literary prefaces to the Russian Synodics of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries whose task was to morally instruct the reader. While there is a noticeable increase in Russian and international researchers’ interest in the Old Russian Synodics, the issue considered in the article has not been addressed in scholarly publications yet. This article aims to reconstruct the miniaturists’ approach to illustrating a short text with a demonological plot, whose content should be interpreted and supplemented by a parallel visual story. The object of the study – book miniatures – predetermines interdisciplinary research and the use of philological and art criticism hermeneutical methods. The research refers to illustrations for the parable About the Spendthrift from the Synodics of the Trinity and St Daniel Monastery from 1672 and Solba St Nicholas Pustyn of the eighteenth century. They are vivid examples of two versions of the iconography of the illustrative series: one that gravitates towards the Russian mediaeval manuscript tradition and one that reproduces the figurative structure and style of the engravings of the Synodic by Leonty Bunin, respectively. The results of the study are based on a comparison of the key episodes of the literary plot of the parable and the visual narrative of the same events. The author concludes that in the miniatures, the desire to “teach through pictures” is traced, and the expressiveness of methods of the homily is not inferior to the book text but surpasses it. Both versions of the iconography of the miniature series tell the same instructive story about sin and punishment. It differs from many other illuminated parables of Synodics as in it, an important infernal person is present, which introduces an unusual nuance into the narrative.

Resilience. Lessons from a period of disruption

What happens when the research lens is turned inward? As a Strategic Designer, I spend most of time planning for research to engage with people so I can better understand their needs and behaviors and turn research insights into actionable solutions. In this PechaKucha, I share a personal reflection of what resilience means to me and the insights I gleaned based on my own experiences during the pandemic. It's a visual story about a journey of pain and loss, but also strength through discovery, experimentation, and adaptability.

On the Road: Emergent Spatiality in #Vanlife

‘Vanlife’ is a term utilised on social media sites, including YouTube, to denote images and videos that represent a lifestyle centred around long-distance travel using converted vans. The Vanlife phenomenon demonstrates the potential for networked culture and storytelling to combine to create emergent spaces, fostered not only by individual digital media objects but also the connected digital networks they occupy. In this article I ask how digital media practices are used by Vanlife travellers in order to construct such emergent spaces, and what the characteristics of these spaces might be. This investigation has a particular focus on the capacity for the creative practices used to tell visual stories online to combine representations of ‘real world’ experiences and environments, with the individual and communal desires, rhetoric and, at times, fictions, of the burgeoning Vanlife alternative lifestyle. Taking a netnographic approach (Kozinets, 2002), and guided by Henri Lefebvre’s trialectic model of space (1974), I conduct analysis of a set of Vanlife YouTube videos and explore the construction of different layers of spatiality as well as the productive tensions that arise between these. As Vanlifers undertake and document their freewheeling travels, their production of spaces serves to establish the unending road trip as a viable alternative lifestyle. Vanlife videos also work to formulate new cultural and aesthetic dimensions for the areas their creators explore, destabilising and redefining the meanings of the spaces, experiences and communities its travellers encounter. Equally, the idealised spaces of Vanlife are themselves disrupted by jarring intrusions from the external world and its everyday problems, a tension that further illustrates the continually negotiable nature of spatial meanings and highlights the role digital media might play in accentuating and accelerating this fluidity.

Our Ocean Climate Story: connecting communities with local data

The ocean has a vast capacity for absorbing heat and carbon dioxide, seriously threatening local habitats for marine life. Challenges in connecting wider society with this crisis may originate in its poor visibility for non-specialists: the data can be inaccessible and hard to relate to. In a series of immersive community workshops, participants created artworks combining recent physical ocean climate data recorded in Otago, New Zealand, with impacts on local species from published studies. We found that crafting visual stories was a powerful way to distill greater meaning from complex climate data, and engage participants with harmful changes underway locally.

Declarative Memory Impairment and Emotional Bias in Recurrent Depression with a Seasonal Pattern: The Interplay between Emotion and Cognition in Seasonal Affective Disorder.

Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD) is a subtype of Major Depressive Disorder (MDD) with a seasonal pattern. Although it is a pathological condition limited to specific seasons of the year, during the symptomatic period, patients may experience a significant impairment of well-being and daily quality of life as a result of the depressed mood, associated with other symptoms defined as atypical of MDD. While extensive evidence of memory deficits has been found in MDD, explicit memory impairments in SAD are insufficiently studied. This study aims to investigate the cognitive processing of emotional stimuli in women with SAD, in particular the interplay between emotions and declarative memory. One hundred and twenty young women, screened from an initial number of 1125 university students, were divided into two groups, an experimental one that included 60 medically untreated women affected by “winter type SAD” and a control group of 60 non-SAD women. Different subjects were randomly submitted to two types of audio–visual stories, neutral or arousal, and then their memory performances were analyzed by means of a free-recall test and a recognition memory test. In both the free-recall test (p < 0.008) and in the recognition memory test (p < 0.002), the SAD group showed impaired memory performances. Taken together, our novel key findings suggest that SAD is characterized by impairment in declarative memory and attentional bias for emotional negative stimuli.

In Compton, Telling a Visual Story of Struggle: A Conversation with Fulton Leroy Washington

In Compton, Telling a Visual Story of StruggleA Conversation with Fulton Leroy Washington Karlos K. Hill (bio) BEARING WITNESS In his new column, appearing in every other issue, Karlos K. Hill highlights the efforts of cultural figures doing works of essential good around issues of social justice. Click for larger view View full resolution FULTON LEROY WASHINGTON (AKA MR. WASH), EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION (2014)/COURTESY OF THE ARTIST/ARTBYWASH.COM The story of how Fulton Leroy Washington became an internationally acclaimed artist is intertwined with the story of how he earned his freedom. Convicted in 1997 of a crime that he didn’t commit, then given a mandatory life sentence because of his prior arrests for a series of nonviolent drug offenses, Washington served more than twenty years in federal prison before being granted clemency by President Barack Obama in 2016. To this day, he maintains that his painting Emancipation Proclamation, which features President Obama signing an order to release him from prison, helped pave the way for the ultimate commutation of his sentence. Now a free man, Fulton Washington is electrifying the art world with his innovative approach to art, including, most recently, digital art. In July 2021 UCLA’s Hammer Museum awarded him the prestigious Mohn Public Recognition Award for his series of portraits of American presidents, celebrities, and former fellow inmates featuring oversized teardrops. In a recent interview, I asked Washington about the role of art in helping him gain his freedom and his hope for clearing his name, as well as his moving vision for building a community art center in Compton. Karlos K. Hill: Your artwork is ground-breaking in so many ways. I’m thinking especially about your signature “teardrop” series, and the way the tears in the paintings often contain a story within a story. You are innovative not only in your artwork itself but also in terms of the conversation between your art and technology. On a deeper level, your artwork actually helped you secure your freedom. You leveraged your creative ability in a way that enabled you to gain the attention of the Obama administration, and from there, with the help of your lawyers and a number of intermediaries, you were able to walk out of prison a free man. Can you talk a bit about the ways in which art has helped you to liberate yourself? Not just literally, as in your liberation from prison, but also spiritually and emotionally. What was the significance of art in that process? Fulton Leroy Washington: Art became a way of communication for me in prison—a way to tell the story when I couldn’t find the words to say. It became a permanent record in history and time of what I was going through. It’s not so much that I was afraid of dying by incarceration, but there [End Page 30] were so many other things in there that could take your life. And I don’t mean you’d be sitting in there for seventy or eighty years waiting to get old and die. I wanted to tell the next generation the story of the fight, the struggle, so that it would not be tainted with words that might create a different picture. So I was liberated by having that opportunity and the ability to capture that moment in time. I used the journey that I went through, through the criminal justice system and trying to prove my innocence and gain my freedom, to document as many aspects as I could of every court experience. I use art in that way to tell a visual story of a struggle. Many other people were living through the same thing, but those people had no avenue to communicate what was really going on. When the media come through the prison, everything tends to be sanitized, and everybody’s cautioned to be on their best behavior. Everyone’s cleaned up and dressed up, wearing decent clothes and trying to stay out of the way. That’s the sanitized version for the public, but it’s not the reality of what’s going on. So I use art to convey a little snippet...