Up, up and away the headline and picture show a person floating in a chair flying from the white cliffs of Dover. The headline is effective because it tells you what he is doing ‘Up,up and away the day armchair travel takes off’. the picture is showing Jonathan Trappe sitting in a armchair with helium balloons above his head. They both show that someone is in an armchair floating across the cliffs of Dover. The use of colour is bright and vibrant. the headline was bold and black showing it has some importance to draw the audience in to the news report. This links to the text because the text is talking about a man who flew across in an armchair. Saying ‘everyone has had the slight dream to do something like this.
November 26, 2013 at 10:37 pm
This is clear information, but unfortunately doesn’t touch on many of the key points.
The main idea is that there is an ironic play between the idea of a cartoon film and the reality of this venture. The irony is in the words “armchair travel” and the image which is bright and almost unbelievable.
This is sometimes a difficult question because it demands a thoughtful response but you’re asked to refer to specific visual features as well as linguistic. The way to approach this is usually to detect anything interesting in the words and see if there is evidence of anything similar in the image.
This would have got about 3/8