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Composers use many techniques in their texts to use images to portray, places and ideas. Director John Ruane in his film Dead Letter Office uses multiple camera shots to portray Alice as a hopeful young girl waiting for her father to come home, and then as a young adult determined to find her father through her letters. Banjo Paterson uses literary writing techniques and adjectives in his poem, Clancy of the Overflow, to give us vivid images of the relaxing and calming life of the drover Clancy. Through the use of the mise-en-scene of Frank’s house, Ruane decorates the house with outdated and sparse furniture to tell us that Frank is not very wealthy and the positioning of the house on the outskirts of a suburb also tell us that he is alone and dislocated. The Queensland country is strong depicted in Clancy and the Overflow by the use of strong adjectives describing the landscape such as ‘sunlight plains,’and ‘everlasting stars,’ and ‘ river on its bars,’ are examples of the writing techniques that Banjo uses in this poem. In Ruane’s film, the pigeon Punt Road is used as a metaphor for home and as a metaphor for Aclice and Frank being trapped inside themselves and the release of Punt Road symbolises their release. The idea of a romanticised Queensland bush is brought about of Banjos Paterson’s use of creative writing techniques that is used whenever the city person is talking about the place that Clancy is at. Director John Ruane portrays Alice as first hopeful and then purposeful via the use of a number of cinematic techniques in the opening sequence. Ruane has used the close up image of Alice’s ballet slippers juxtaposed with the close up shot of Alice skipping to empathise Alice’s father will be ‘coming home. ’ Ruane uses a montage of letters in the opening sequence to also empathise the feeling of loss that Alice feels towards her father, this combined with non-diegetic voice overs from a young Alice and adult Alice to change her tone form being hopeful to determine. In contrast to Ruane, Banjo Paterson uses a number of writing techniques throughout the poem, Clancy of the Overflow, to give the reader images of the city dweller as someone who is not happy with his life and would like it to change. ‘In my wild erratic fancy vision come to me of Clancy. ’ This is an example of Paterson using strong adjectives to provoke vivid images of Clancy of the Overflow. Banjo also the literary technique of modality in the quote ‘As the stock are slowly stringing, Clancy rides behind them singing’ to gives us the images that Clancy has a very relaxed and laid back lifestyle droving through the soft language used. Frank’s house is a perfect example of how composers can use images to depict a place and how it can tell us a lot about the person living there. Ruane uses a long panning shot as we first see Frank’s house to show to dry and bare paddock that the house is next to. This image immediately tells the viewer that Frank isn’t very wealthy and he seems quite alone and excluded as the house is on the very edge of an outer suburb. The director Ruane also uses the inside decoration of the house to convey this theme of dislocated. The furniture that is used in Frank’s house is very out-dated and sparse. This also conveys the message that he doesn’t have anyone but himself to look after because of the lack of furniture Through the use of very selective word choice and description, Banjo Paterson, creates images of the Queensland outback as the city dweller imagines it. ‘Vision splendid of the sunlit plains extended. ’ Is an example of this writing technique with ‘splendid’ being used to create a soft touch to an otherwise very harsh environment that desert plains are. ‘Wondrous glory of the everlasting stars. ’ Is another example of Paterson using adjectives to describe the Queensland bush as beautiful and soft and not the harsh environment that in reality it is. Ruane uses metaphors to symbolise many ideas throughout his film The Dead Letter Office. The most used metaphor is the pigeon Punt Road who we meet in the first scene in the office. â€Å"Home isn’t just a map reference; it is where he feels he is at home. ’ Punt Road is used as a metaphor of home, because he symbolises to the staff that the dead letter office is to many of them the only place that they have. Frank is a example of this, he has none at home, but when he comes into the office he is looked after, the same that Punt Road is looked after. Punt Road also symbolises how Frank and Alice are trapped inside each other, and the release of Punt Road symbolises how they can release what is trapped inside them and come together. Paterson uses many writing technique to give the readers the idea of Romanticised Bush or to describe the Queensland bush as something that in reality it isn’t. This means that Banjo is able to create a sense of a dream location for the city slicker. â€Å"Bush friends meet him. † Is used by Banjo but in reality wild animal would not be friendly and greet Clancy. The Romanticised in used all throughout the poem with ‘At night†¦. stars† being used to empathise this. Reality is that Clancy is out in the bush without comforts. These are some of the many literary techniques that both composers have used in their texts to portray people, places and ideas. The more effective that each technique is, the more we can imagine what is going on to the character, and it helps give us a more in-depth knowledge about the text. Through the use of camera angles of Alice, Mise-en-scene of Frank’s house and the metaphor of Punt Road the pigeon John Ruane has created a film that shows a lot of belonging and change in characters. Banjo Paterson has used the techniques of strong adjectives, modality and the Romanticised bush to describe the City dweller as someone who is fed up with their life in the city and wants to be free and live a life in the country like Clancy of the Overflow