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- Proportion / Size - ship is dominant || Yellow represents caution and black represents evil and strength. The ship is shown to be dominant - showing the superiority of Aboriginals. The white people are shown to be about 5 times bigger than the Aboriginals. || Shows that the white people are powerful in comparison to Aboriginals || Lighting: The shades of green are dark to symbolise a sense of seriousness and concentration. Proportion: Portrays the rabbits as small compared to the built and natural features around them. Body language: Each rabbit has no hands free and no eyes wandering to signify the fact that they have tasks to complete. || The overall meaning of the two pages is quite deep. Through the use of various techniques found in the illustration and powerful text on the pages, a very deep meaning is created. The rabbits, civilised and orderly, are meant to represent the British settlers. The natural features, the tall mountains and bare landscape depict the natural obstacles across the land. The inclusion of rabbits that are plotting, working and building clearly displays the intent of these beings and their purpose on this newly settled land. It shows that no natural asset on this land, including the Aboriginal inhabitants, will stop the British from settling. || -Colour -Symbolism || -scratchy, primitive - tractors are huge and cut out half the shot - Black - Reds and oranges - Fleeing animals || - They are an old civilisation and have been on the land for ages. -They are menacing and taking over - Evil, destruction, strength, power -Barren landscape, danger and hostility -That the tractors are dangerous and are something to be scared of. Their lifestyle has been disturbed. ||
 * =Page numbers= || =What is happening?= || =**Techniques used**= || =**Description**= || =**Meaning Created**= ||
 * 1 and 2 Harrison and taylor || In the picture Everything looks Australian except there is a tiny little black thing emitting smoke in the distance, disturbing the image. || Symbolism, colours, shadows, lettering/font, distant view || The symbols on the rock wall represent the Australian Aboriginals and the colours, suggest peacefulness and this is the way things are meant to be. The shadows are warm colours and suggest safety away from the open and a sense of oldness. || That the rabbits came many years and years and years ago, before the land was affected or changed by anything. ||
 * 3 and 4 Jennifer and Bec || The rabbits have come to their land and some of them seem friendly and there aren't many of them so the kangaroos don't feel threatened by them. It is their first meeting and the rabbits haven't damaged the land yet so they have no problem with them. || The techniques are the colours used in the foreground and the peaceful blue sky. It shows that the land looks very healthy and rich at the time. || The foreground is bigger than the background to show what the land is like before thr rabbits destroy it. The main part of the picture is the foreground even though the action is happening in the background of the picture. || The meaning is that the Aboriginals didn't know what was coming and were curious about the rabbits and their ways. ||
 * 5 and 6 emma s || In this scene the rabbits have just arrived. They are setting up some of their foreign things and objects and showing some of the bandicoots their things. The things, maps, telescopes, test tubes, books and pens look very out of place but all is seemingly well. On the last 1/6th of the page it looks as if it has been ripped and instead of the nice brown land is a dark, not in a good way, dark ground with what looks carriage tracks and a few strewn rabbit objects. Foot tracks are also shown. || Techniques used includes the change of colour for the part of the page where it says 'more rabbits came…'. It signifies the destruction the rabbits have already started making. In the much larger part of the picture the rabbits are noticeably larger and more overbearing than the bandicoots. The red-brown of the good soil before its destruction signifies warmth and stability while the darker black like landscape in the smaller section represents seriousness, nostalgia and detachment. The greens in some of the rabbits object signify money. The fact that one of the rabbits is dropping a poor innocent lizard into a test tube is one sign that things are starting to get bad, as you look across the page to the destroyed side. || In techniques. I did the description as well as the techniques in techniques :) Sorry about that. || The meaning of this page is to show how when the rabbits first came they already really took over the bandicoots and their land but as they kept coming the land was getting more and more destroyed. It did a good job of showing the rabbits with their overpowering presence with all their fancy equipment and clothing. The fact that a bit of the page show the land destroyed with the captioned words 'more rabbits came' is really effective in explaining to us that the reason the land is destroyed and barren is because of the rabbits that just keep coming and keep treating the land as their own and as a place to use without limit or any boundaries. ||
 * 7 and 8 Felix || The British are arriving by boat and invading the land. The Aboriginals attempt to fight back, but fail. || - Colour - yellow and black
 * 9 and 10 9 and 10 John and Kavin || The rabbits are building houses on the land and they are presenting a large picture of what they think will be the end result of their. || There are several techniques used in these pages. they include colour and simbolism/representation. || Symbolism - The white people are represented by the white, strangely dressed rabbits, as the aboriginals have never seen them before. The painting represent how they are supposedly are going to change the world into. Colour - The warm red and yellow colours displayed in the image represent happiness, cheerfulness and warmth. And the dirty white represent how bland and not special the towers really are. || The main meaning of this page is that the rabbits are taking over the land by building these large structure there. They are promising a happy and warm place but in reality they are polluting and destroying the world. ||
 * 11 and 12 - Emily and Annabel || The double page tells of the British bringing new food and animals to Australia. Some of the food and animals the Aboriginals like whilst some they didn’t and made them sick || Techniques includes colours, emphasis on size and the foregound and the background. || On the left hand side the colours are bright and colourful which match the text to the picture showing that everything is happy and good. On the right hand side, its says that the food makes them sick and that the animal scare them and the colours are all dark and the sky is bleak showing that things are very bad. The size of the animals on the left hand side show that they are important because the animals are the rabbits brought to their land. The foreground of the picture is larger than the background which tells us that the foreground is more important than the background however there are details in the background which should be payed attention to. || The meaning created is that the animals brought into the conutry by th British are killing their Aboriginals' food sources, drinking the water and making the Aboriginals food because they havent eaten it before. ||
 * 13 and 14 Matt || On these two pages, the text reads, "The rabbits spread across the country. No mountain could stop them; no desert, no river". In the foreground of the illustration, three rabbits are gathered around a table and they appear to be conversing and planning. A fourth rabbit is filling a cup with drinking water sourced from an overhead pipe. Throughout the background of the image, a plain mountainous landscape is depicted with an extensive system of pipes. Many rabbits are scattered across this land, planning, working, thinking and constructing. || The illustration is using various techniques. These devices include symbolism, colour, lighting, proportion, body language. || Symbolism: Well-dressed, proper-looking rabbits made to look civilised and creative. Colour: Shades of green are depicted to symbolise growth.
 * 15 and 16 gabe and Holden || the rabbits and the bandicoots are fighting each other in an all out war over the land. || -it uses the colour brown ironically as brown means stability and neutrality, symbolism (tally on rabbits hats) repetition of the rabbits and there weapons. The size of the rabbits is much bigger than the bandicoots. The text "sometimes we had fights" is ironic because they always had fights and the bandicoots always lost. ||  || rabbits are mean, and don’t go up against an army of rabbits that has tanks and machine guns. ||
 * 17 and 18 boden ||  ||   ||   ||   ||
 * 19 and 20 Sophie and Declan || In the picture the tractors are harvesting all the crops but they leave paths of barren land and destruction. They are ruining the land. || -Font -Hyperbole
 * 21 and 22 paul and Issac || The children are being taken by box kites attached to horrible flying machines. || Colours, Proportion and size, foreground and background, Body language. || Bland colours, Proportions show the relationships between different characters, Foreground captures your attention, Uncaring body language and symbolism. || The whites and blacks among the rabbits imply a sense of seriousness, bleakness and detachment further elaborated upon by their facial expressions, The pages the rabbits are holding represent orders given by the government and the kites holding the children represents how out of reach they are to the parents. By putting the rabbits in the foreground and emplacing their size represents their overpowering nature and how the armadillos are being overwhelmed. ||
 * 23 and 24 Emma and Hugo || The rabbits are taking over and are building a civilisation although they are destroying the environment by polluting the landscape || Grey colour, symbolises bleakness. Long shot shows the city. Hyperbole is used as the colour of the sky is completely black, this exaggerates the fact that the rabbits are polluting the land || There are many factories and industrial buildings, and the rabbits are creating lots of pollution. They are destroying the landscape and ruining all the clean air || White people take advantage of the environment and destroy it without caring. Whereas the Aboriginals take good care of where they live ||
 * 25 and 26 kiah || In this scene the rabbits have done their damage and it is showing the aftermath- a barren, ugly land instead of the beauty that it used to be. The narrator talks of how it is empty and bare. || Techniques used are colours, proportion, hyperbole, layout, body language and shot size. || The colours used in this picture include browns, dirty whites and yellows and not much else. This plus the lack of any sort of natural features emphasises the barrenness of the landscape and the browns and dirty colours also give it a feeling of being tainted. The use of proportion and hyperbole come into use in the wall, which is huge compared to the bandicoot. The pipes and flow of dirty water is also a hyperbole. They make the rabbit's empire seem huge, strong and destructive while making the bandicoot look small. The wall is also huge in comparison to the rabbit peering through a door in it. This gives the rabbit a look of power and makes it look protected. Body language is used by the bandicoot which is curled up to portray defeat and desperation. The page is laid out to make the bandicoot look cut out from the world of rabbits and to make the rabbits look strong. || The meaning is that the rabbits destroyed the homelands of the bandicoots, taking all their resources and food and destroyed everything that they couldn't use. ||
 * 27 and 28 christina and morgan || The narrator-bandicoot is talking about the changes caused by the rabbits. He is asking what happened to the land - where all the original, beautiful things that were common have gone. || Colour, lighting, proportion/size and body language || The picture is monotonous - all a muddy brown, which is a contrast to the rich landscapes described in the words. There is very little light in the pictures. The only features in the picture are tiny, emphasising the blank space, and the birds appear to be flying far away. The characters at the bottom are exhibiting very different body languages. The rabbit is sprinkling his seeds with a sense of purpose, while the bandicoot is standing with resigned posture, looking at the sky, and watching the birds flying away. || The mood that these techniques create is one of hopelessness and destruction. The picture is barren, with the last birds flying away forever. The rabbit, however, continues with his work of changing the environment to his own ends. ||