Hi we are group one of the Macrappers. We have decided to do rap point 2 on the page “They ate our grass…”
We have analysed the colour, symbols, images, vectors, positioning, and text and title of these pages.
The text grabs your attention by using paler colours on a dark background. This creates an unsettling and unusual effect. The colour of the writing goes from a cool, calmer bluish colour to an orange, angry, more indignant colour.
The colours used on these pages – red and orange, give an impression of bushfires and a threat to natives. The dark foreground is threatening – the shadow falls on the reader, not just the animals, putting the reader in the animals’ position and making it seem more dangerous.
The juxtaposition of the colours shows the contrast between the two cultures. For The Rabbits, the orange colours show wealth and prosperity while for the natives, the colours used represent fear and danger. These colours are dark and cold, green and grey.
The positioning of the machines demonstrates the rabbits desire for order and obedience, as the machines are all in a straight line, heading forwards at the same speed. As well, the placement of the machines demonstrates how the rabbits advanced unstoppably over the land like an army, flattening everything in their way.
Speaking of the rabbits desire for order, the lines and arrows on the machines show that the rabbits need order and control in everything, eg the arrows on the exhaust say that the smoke goes here, etc.
There are also flags on each of the machines, illustrating the rabbit’s claims of ownership of everything that they can get their hands on, and how they leave their mark wherever they go.
The lines of their destruction of the grasslands reflect their flag, as well as showing the rabbits starting in one point then spreading over the land in every direction. Showing the curve of the land behind them demonstrates how much destruction has been done.
The amount of smoke over the horizon shows that there are many of the machines, and the sheer volume of the smoke shows on what a large scale the land is affected. The smoke on the horizon is very forbidding and polluting, which shows how they don’t understand the land.
Size is used to show comparisons, the escaping animals are very small, especially in relation to the huge machine in the foreground. As well, the rabbits are shown in silhouette as very small compared to their huge machines – this means that they are small but can cause great destruction
The birds could be major Mitchell cockatoos, which are endangered in Australia because of human destruction
There could also be a reference to Robbie Burn’s poem “to a mouse”, wherein the mouse is scared by the machinery, but the mice don’t have to be chased away; just the machinery alone scares them. This is relevant because the rabbits aren’t actually chasing the mice and other animals, just harvesting what they see as theirs, that is, the animal’s homes and food in the grass.
See you later, Macrappers Group 1,
Jesse, Jessica, Lucinda and Kristin.
