session 2: reading words and images

I sadly dont have my notes on session 2 due to the fact i had a power outage during the session and I lost a lot of what happened. 

The main themes of the session had to do with how we as illustrators can read words and images individually and together to create pieces.
Word specific for example are where we draw all the information we need from text alone to understand and decode the message,
Image specific is the same concept but only from images alone.
Dual message is when both text and images draw the same meaning in combination with one another. The easiest example I could think of is a comic strip in many ways, the dialogue often easily goes alongside the images and are usually never unrelated 
Independent is when the image and word are different from each other but end up conveying a similar meaning and can be interpreted together to create one meaning
Parallel is when the image and word have no relation to one another and convey two entirely different meanings

I created an example above to show how the different definitions can be interpreted, from the word to the parallel, each one creates a different kind of vibe from the straight forward to the somewhat confusing but almost comedic. The example used in the lecture was the painting by René Magritte of the pipe, or at least not the pipe. We discussed both the denotations and connotations which took me back to English lit and lang in A Levels hahaha. Both the denotation and connotation of a painting and how it should be taken both literally and metaphorically, I'm the type of person who takes things too literally sometimes, I feel, so having more insight into how to convey other meanings through the combination of text and image is interesting to me.