How Word & Image Work Together, Part 2

After Brian Fies' talk, I tried to think of other places where word and image work together.  As I was looking at my wall, I realized that I had many posters that were reflective of this.  Movie posters are examples of how word and image work together because they have an image that is supposed to represent the movie, but they also have words that give you a hint into what the movie is about and the title.  For example, for the movie Twilight, the movie poster has an image of "Edward" and "Bella", along with the words "When you can live forever, what do you live for?"  In this poster, the image has Edward standing protectively over Bella, and Bella is looking forwards and safely tucked under Edward.

As an image, the viewer is able to see that a boy seems to be standing protectively over a girl, but without the words, it is unclear what is really going on.  The statement "When you can live forever, what do you live for?" gives the viewer and hint that the boy standing over the girl is possibly the one that "lives forever" because the the image was made so the boy looks almost ethereal with very pale skin and glowing eyes.  The girl is hidden under the boy and she looks more normal and fragile, so from the statement, the viewer can deduce that the girl is the thing the boy will "live for".