Valentina D’Efilippo recently made a huge splash in the infographics space with the “Relationship Matters” infographic book visualizing the social structures within groups of people. Fortunately, that’s not the only thing she’s created, as evidenced by her website www.vale-n-tina.com . She has created several original works of infographics and graphic design, usually compiled into books, and shows them on her website. Unfortunately, the resolution is a bit poor making it difficult to appreciate the full beauty and detail.
As a VizWorld Exclusive, Valentina has send us some special high-resolution images of two other great works (The Shining and Visualizing Gender Stereotypes), which I’ve added below for your own perusal. Check after the break for some great visualizations of the american cinema classic ‘The Shining‘, as well as some interesting differences between the sexes as it pertains to their stereotypes.
The Shining
From Valentina’s Website:
The project seeks through the use of graphic visualization techniques to deconstruct a film in order to visualize its internal structure. Far from being the strict rules of written language communication, film grammar – which embodies video production knowledge – is comprised of the body of “rules” and conventions that are a product of experimentation; an accumulation of solutions found by everyday practice of the craft. The existence of this grammar makes obvious a vital truth: films are crafted, built and shaped with a purpose in mind. The work aims at exploiting the grammar of film for the purpose of better understand its semantic features. This exploration could also be used to create a model of comparison between different movies. By applying the same approach to different films, visual comparisons of the cinematographic styles of various directors could be made, and the complexity of the structure of their work could be highlighted.
The Shining is an iconic film in cinema no doubt, directed by Stanley Kubrick and starring Jack Nicholson, and the interesting accordion layout makes for an fun portable-poster style design. In particular, I love the Shot Index chart where individual frames are shown and charted against individual shot-length, and mapped by the starring protagonists in the shot. An amazing amount of information packed into such a compact form.
Visualizing Gender Stereotypes
From Valentina’s Website:
A personal research into gender stereotypes focusing on how children become aware of these and how they receive stereotyped messages through visual communication. The first outcome is an infographic book which explores male and female identity as seen through the eyes of children, while the second outcome is an illustrated book for young kids that strives to communicate genders equality.
The result is actually a trio of books: One of “Visualizing Gender Stereotypes”, and then a separate pair of books dedicated to each gender and aimed at children. Valentina has uploaded the first one, which is full of beautiful charts and infographics about the differences between the genders (Aside from the obvious anatomical ones), to Issuu which I’ve embedded below, and sent us some beautiful images as well.
