Table 4 Narrative representation reflected in the captured screenshots.

From: Diachronic image construction in the documentary Seven Up: a multimodal critical discourse analysis

Image no.

Visual description

Verbal language

1

Suzy talking about her dropout while smoking in 21 Up

Suzy: I didn’t want to do it when I was 14. I know I was very difficult because I was very anti-doing it. I was pressurized into doing it by my parents and I hated it, and I’ve vowed I’d never do it now …

2

Suzy and her husband being interviewed in 28 Up

The interviewer: It just seems a miracle to me when I last saw you at twenty-one you were nervous, you were chain smoking, you were uptight. And now you seem happy. What’s happened to you over this last seven years?

Suzy: I suppose Rupert. I’ll give you some credit …