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Book Vs Movie

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The age old question of whether the book is better than the movie. There is much more to it than that when you consider how the effect of their means of production, textual forms, technologies, affect the messages being portrayed. Marshall McLuhan famously said, “The medium is the message.” I don’t believe that the media of production is indistinguishable to the message because the content still exists as a separate entity to that of its form, however I agree to some extent with McLuhan’s proposed idea that the medium is of equal importance to the message being communicated. The medium, or the way the audience receives a message, largely influences the way the message is perceived, whether it is through a poem, a documentary, a pamphlet, or even an oil painting. But how do the composers choose the form that their work will take? There are many factors to be taken into consideration by composers when choosing a medium of …show more content…

The poster urged the audience to “Vote LBJ, the Liberal way” in large bold letters, to “Defeat Goldwater and his right-wing extremists,” which was written at the bottom. On the middle of the poster were pictured the members of the Democratic Party and a guide to voting for them. The visual and print components work in conjunction with each other to persuade the reader to vote for LBJ, and the information is structured in such a way that it benefits from the nature of the medium. Although there is no defined linear structure to the poster like in a print text, the structure of this poster relates the information together clearly, with a pointing hand and similar colour used to direct attention. The readers are given the freedom to process the information presented by their own, but the message is still clear however the information is processed, as it is bolded and large at the top in

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