A verbal portrait is an example of forensic science. Rules for describing a person using the verbal portrait method

a) A sample self-portrait based on the example of material from the Internet:

He is shy and modest - as far as he allows acting profession. Soberly refers to their achievements. A serious artist with a subtle lyric-comedy talent Andrey Kaikov comments on the most important.

Who am I?

“I am a person who loves life. And like mine different roles– actor, father, friend, son… In each of them I manage to feel in my place and be in harmony with the situation. Accept what is. I like to communicate with other people and do not oppose myself to them. But at the same time I'm enough secretive person and is not ready to discuss his personal problems with anyone. It's hard for even my family to get something out of me. I took this quality from my father: he does not like to interfere in the lives of others, interfere with someone, impose himself. And this is typical of me too. I am hardworking, quick-tempered and responsible, but I don't think it comes with age. I feel like I'm not changing. Rather, I grow in breadth, like a tree: new branches appear, but the trunk, the core remain one.

b) Words used to describe a person's character:

The character of a person can be described with the words: optimist, generous, open, practical, wise, sociable, hospitable, sociable, responsible, calm, caring, man of his word, inattentive, firm, reliable, logical, unemotional, attentive, insightful, influential, sensitive, polite , witty, talkative, cheerful, proud, impulsive, tactful, arrogant, brash, friendly, etc.

V) Make your own self-portrait.

Work samples:

• There is a boy in my town. Hm. No.
  One boy lives in my house.
  There is one boy living in my room - me.
  He (I) is a very interesting person.
  Graceful, cultured, a little annoying, a little crazy.
  He was born in the distant past. Well, exactly 14 years ago.
  He graduated from an institution called "nothing".
  He is currently studying at educational complex"Mkhitar of Sebastia".
  Earlier, he was educated at the school named after Hakob Kojoyan.
  I heard rumors that a few months ago he started writing poetry.
  He writes badly, but I like his style.
  They say that his poems are very cruel, directed to someone dear to him.
  They say he is in love, suffering from unrequited love.
  For some reason, I do not believe in these rumors.
  He is too lazy when he walks through the door, I saw him sit down in a chair and start playing his stupid games!!!
  In the morning, it is not easy for me to persuade him to wake up. He is often late for school. And not only to school, I tell you.
  I followed him, and it turns out that he always and everywhere comes late.
  Here is such a person my contemporary.
  But despite all his defects, despite all the bad things about him, I love him very much.
  He's just a douche.
• Voskanyan Eric

C) work in pairs/groups: in a few minutes, on the basis of several questions to each other, make a verbal portrait of your peer from Georgia / Armenia and present it. And the one whose portrait was made says how accurately it was made and what was the mistake. When drawing up a portrait, pay attention to

• Appearance
• Actions.

1. The next part of the lesson is conducted using the "Perspective" technology.

Four creative groups are being created. Each of the groups works in a certain role position: innovators, optimists, pessimists, experts.

• Innovators present their program of self-education of the individual;
• optimists highlight all the positive, positive in the presented program;
• Pessimists pay attention to everything negative, ill-conceived in the program of self-education;
• Experts summarize and analyze the information received, evaluate the work of each creative team, make additions.

1. Individual work in laptops (in blogs or e-books):

“The person I would like to be like”

(Creating a portrait of a modern young man.)

After some time, the work is read out and discussed, after which the teacher reads the text from the electronic manual “It's cool!”

TEXT:

Do parents always understand their grown-up children well? Let's try to figure out what interests modern teenagers, what they consider cool and what their parents do not always agree with.

So, now in the youth environment:

Cool to drink beer, but weak, so as not to lose orientation.

It's cool to ride on the street in any weather - through puddles, snow; cool ride on railings, benches and stairs. It's cool to just drive fast and yell.

It's cool to ride in dirty clothes, in one piece of clothing, wearing a cap on your head backwards.

It's cool to walk in shorts as much as possible, especially in winter, and in summer to walk in a hat. Hats must be worn incredible, surprising everyone around.

It's cool to wear things topsy-turvy and backwards. Be sure to need different socks, you can also use different laces. It’s even cooler to wear, say, one sneaker and one fin. You need to experiment as much as possible with your external

It's cool to wear a bunch of all sorts of pendants on your head, neck, arms, clothes, to have piercings in all places of the body. It's cool to have a tattoo.

It's cool to run down the street in ridiculous clothes, yell, jump. It's cool to stand on your feet all the time, it's cool to behave outside the box.

Questions for conversation.

How do you feel about this youth behavior? Do you like this style, this fashion? Could you dress like this?

Do you think your parents understand you well?

Where do you disagree with your parents - about clothes, music? ..

Is it always necessary to agree with the opinion of parents, or is a teenager already able to make a choice in life?

Do you listen to your parents' advice? How do you feel about their opinion?

Are there always problems between parents and children?

Do you think you will understand your children well?

Until what age do you think children should live with their parents?

Should parents help their adult children financially?

1. Reading a text about our contemporaries (musicians, writers, directors, just interesting people)

• I will not name his name, because I do not know how it is written in Russian. In Armenian it is called Մհեր. He is my father's brother, which means he is my uncle, but since I cannot call him uncle, I will simply call him He.

So. He is smaller than his father in height and age. He was born and raised like his father in Vanadzor. The school was also there, but the university was already in Yerevan. But it is not important. And the fact that I do not understand his profession (If it's interesting, he graduated from the Faculty of International Economic Relations).

He has musical education. At the age of seven he could play the piano.

But then it turned out that he himself learned to play the guitar. He says that in order to attract the attention of girls, he began to play in the group Lav Eli. This group does not contribute to any musical genre, but they are called an alternative rock band. They started their career in Vanadzor. But then they came to Yerevan, and they fell in love here. It turned out that two members of the group then left the country and began to live in the United States, one of the members returned to Vanadzor, and my father's brother remained in Yerevan, got married and a person dear to me, his daughter, was born. On this moment he has four children, but she remains the most dear to me.

I don't know where he learned to do tricks, but sometimes we ask him to show something. As a child, his magic tricks were the most amazing phenomenon. We tried putting a coin in our necks or eating them, but we didn't succeed.

Instruction

Start a verbal portrait by describing the anatomical features of a person. Describe his appearance, noting gender, age, race, height and physique. If it is difficult to identify the race, you can say what kind of representative of the people he looks like: a gypsy, a Buryat, a Japanese. The physique of a person is weak, medium, stocky and athletic. According to the degree of fatness, it can be attributed to thin, normal, full, obese. Here you can also mention the features of his figure - the presence of a hump, stoop or pronounced asymmetry.

Proceed to describe the shape of the head, hair and face. As characteristic features of the head, indicate its size relative to the general physique and the shape of the occiput - vertical, oblique, convex. Speaking of hair, note its color, length, density, structure (straight, curly), the presence of gray hair and bald patches, signs of coloring. Describe the hairstyle and haircut.

Talking about the face, let's not only general information about its shape, contour, degree of fullness and such features as the presence of acne and wrinkles, but also information about all other parts in detail. Describe the height, width, and contour of the forehead and eyebrows. When talking about the eyes, note their color, relative position, cut, shape and bulge. If the person wears glasses, please indicate so. Describe in no less detail the shape and location of the nose, lips, mouth, teeth, chin, and ears.

Describe characteristics other parts of the body: neck, shoulders, chest, back and limbs. Pay special attention to the palms and fingers - the thickness, the absence of individual fingers or their phalanges, signs of arthritis, the shape and size of the nails.

Great importance when compiling a verbal portrait, it is given functional features- gait, posture, gestures, facial expressions, voice. They can be specially modified and are not as stable as anatomical features, but often help to complement the general idea of ​​​​a person.

If they are, then give a description of special signs - scars, tattoos, piercings, absence of body parts, lameness. Describe the clothes and accessories that the person was wearing. Word portrait ready!

A person has many external signs, but all of them can be attributed to two large groups. Thanks to these groups of characteristics, a verbal portrait of any person is created, a description of the appearance helps in identifying the person.

Feature groups

The first group is anatomical. It is with its help that you can convey the anatomical structure of a person, any features of his appearance, these signs make it possible to determine gender, set the range of age and height, and show what kind of physique a person has. Anthropological features of a person are also described by this group, and these are physical features, racial characteristics, approximate nationality, what kind of face a person has, elements on it, what is the structure of the body, the proportions of the arms and legs in relation to the body, the shape of the head, hairstyle, other features of appearance.

The second group of features is dynamic. With the help of this group, the features of human movements are described, most of them are based on processes that can be called conditioned reflex. It is they that characterize the features of gestures, gait, head movements and other body movements that a person practically does not control with the help of willpower. A person has a lot of unconscious movements and postures, these are facial expressions and posture, as well as gait. For example, it is almost impossible for a lame person to control the evenness and uniformity of his gait; due to a physical feature, he will crouch or drag on one leg.

Why is a verbal portrait created?

In forensics, a person's appearance is described in special terms, a verbal portrait is created. A person can arbitrarily slightly change his gait, follow gestures, but he is not able to change the functionality of the body as a whole. All body movements are very stable, at the same time they are unique. The created verbal portrait helps to identify not only living people, but also corpses.

There are several ways to identify a person by a verbal portrait: present a suspect for identification, compare a description of appearance and a photo portrait. Criminologists try to convey as accurately as possible all the nuances of a person’s appearance in the description, since initially no one knows exactly which signs will play a decisive role in the search.

Description starts with common features, smaller ones are mentioned below. The gender comes first, then the approximate age, and only then the whole figure is outlined, then the head, shoulders, neck, chest, face, special signs. It is they who are especially valuable, since getting rid of tattoos, scars, lameness, ticks is not something that is not easy, it is almost impossible. Even plastic surgery does not help, since it does not affect the main biometric parameters, the shape of the skull is what it was, and will be.

We meet every day different people: kind, sad, strange, tall, obese, beautiful, funny ... Each person with whom some kind of communication takes place leaves a certain trace in our psyche. These "traces" are not complete without a verbal description of the subject's appearance. In our mind or in a conversation with a girlfriend, we always rely on aspects of describing a person's appearance.

Description of a person's appearance: purpose

There are sciences that study the appearance of people, such as psychology, philology, forensics and some others. Doctors also encounter elements of the description of appearance when they study the history of the disease or the psychotype of the patient. This process is indispensable in business, especially show business. IN modeling agencies the appearance of a girl or a guy plays a key role, therefore, when meeting with the desired model in absentia, the investor or director first gets acquainted with the verbal portrait of the subject.

Description of appearance in everyday life broadens the horizon, contributes to the formation of taste and appreciation of people. In addition, the interlocutor can easily form the image of the described person in the mind according to certain adjectives.

In psychology, the description of appearance is also in an important place. Whole theories of personality and its behavior are based on appearance individuals. For example, Kretschmer's theory directly links the temperament, character and orientation of a person with his physique. And not only he noted a certain relationship between external data and the internal mood of people. Over the years, our emotions and stress leave an imprint on our appearance in the form of wrinkles, gait, gestures.

In jurisprudence, there is a huge section called forensic science. This science also uses scientific description appearance of a person, defining the criteria and rules of this process. Here, the description is also an important process, since victims and witnesses remember criminals according to external data. In this science, attention is paid to every element of the face, torso, limbs of a person. Along with this, they pay attention to clothes and other signs when they are looking for the missing.

Types of description of appearance

There are many varieties of theories and rules that allow you to describe a person externally as accurately as possible. But this process as a whole can be divided into two main types:

• arbitrary- which is characterized by the use of common folk words, not structured, so important points may be missed;
• systematized- used with the use of scientific or technical terms, compiled according to the method of verbal portrait.

What are the anatomical features of a person?

Description of a person's appearance is what many people encounter when communicating. There are times when you need to talk about a particular person, describing his appearance. Children may also experience this. school age, for example, if they were given the task to write an essay: "Description of a person's appearance."

TO anatomical features a person can include organs and parts of the body, such as, for example, the head, chin, forehead, face or torso.

By anatomical features, you can determine the sex of a person, his age, height and physique. You can also determine the anthropological features of the appearance of a person, the structure of his body and head, and also an element of the face. Since the face is considered the "cover" that characterizes the appearance of a person, special attention is paid to it.

What characteristics are related to the functional description?

The description of a person's appearance cannot take place without determining his functional characteristics. The latter are manifested during human life. They characterize motor and physiological functions. A functional description of a person's appearance reflects the features of the manifestation of his life activity. Characteristics related to functional traits include posture, gestures, facial expressions, gait, and speech.

Creating a verbal portrait of a person, describing the appearance and determining its functional features, first of all, many pay attention to posture. It can be traced by the position of the head - its relation to the body. Also, posture is determined by the position of the body relative to the vertical. Describing it, you can use the following adjectives: hunched, stooped, free, straight and loose. For example, hands can be located along the body, on the hips, behind the back or in pockets. And the head is thrown back, tilted forward, or tilted to one of the sides.

When a student writes a thematic essay: "Description of a person's appearance", then he can use adjectives to characterize the gait of this person. It can be, for example, slow, shuffling, heavy, bouncing, wobbling, fast, mincing, waddling, and waving its arms.

The verbal description of a person's appearance by functional features can be continued for a long time, because, as mentioned above, this includes gestures, facial expressions, as well as speech functions.

Methods of verbal portrait

A verbal portrait is a forensic way of describing a person's appearance using special terms. This method is carried out by a certain system for the purpose of criminal registration (for example, search and identification of living people or corpses).

Methods of verbal portrait are used to identify a person. This can be done by presenting for identification, comparing the appearance with a photographic portrait, with a verbal portrait, as well as comparing a verbal portrait with a photographic image.

Arbitrary description of appearance

Characteristics of a person and a description of his appearance can be made in an arbitrary way. They are given by eyewitnesses with words and expressions used in everyday speech. These can be everyday terms, local dialects, and the like.

Any person who saw the incident can give an arbitrary description. Moreover, he does this with the help of words familiar to him, without using scientific terms. Such descriptions often help criminalists find the right person.

Systematization in the description of a person's appearance

Systematized is a description by the method of verbal portrait. Basics of systematization in late XIX century laid Alphonse Bertillon. Such a description helps to uniformly characterize the elements of people's appearance, their signs and equally perceive the result of the description. There are also basic principles for describing appearance, through which uniformity is achieved. These are the principles:

• on the use of standardized terminology;
• on compliance with the sequence in the description;
• about maximum completeness;
• about the description in full face and in the right profile;
• description, which is carried out in relation to the standard position of the head and the state of appearance;
• about the description, in which special signs stand out.

What are the rules for describing appearances?

There are also rules developed by criminologists for describing a person's appearance, with the help of which a person is characterized by the method of a verbal portrait. This includes the completeness of the description of appearance. After all, the speed of searching for a person primarily depends on this, because it is not known by what signs it will be possible to find it.

The next rule is the sequence of description. This includes general physical characteristics such as gender and age. Then an anatomical description already takes place (for example, the figure as a whole, neck, shoulders, chest, back, head, including the face).

Then there is a description using special terminology. This is necessary in order to ensure a uniform understanding of the information received. But the sources of information are divided into subjective and objective.

The use of adjectives in describing a person in a picture

At first glance, it may seem that making a description of a person's appearance from a picture is not so difficult. But this will not be difficult if we know the person well, and if not, then some effort will have to be made. The first thing you need is to know adjectives well, with which you can make a description.

For example, looking at a picture, you can describe a person's head using adjectives that indicate its size: small, medium, or large. You can characterize a person’s hair from a picture using the following criteria: abundance, length, type, color or frontal line. Hair can be thick, medium or sparse. Length - short, medium length or long. Hair type can be straight, wavy and curly. Color - light blond, blond, dark blond, black and red. And the frontal line is straight, arcuate, wavy and broken.

Looking at the picture, you can use any adjectives to describe the face of a person as a whole, his forehead, eyebrows, eyes, nose, mouth, lips, teeth, chin, ear and neck. It also characterizes the shoulders, chest, back, arms and legs.

Characteristics of the appearance of a Russian person

Another mystery for ethnopsychologists, physiognomists, philologists is the appearance of a Russian person. It is not very easy to describe it, because it is a very vague concept. Many say that a real Russian person should have Blue eyes, blond hair and a flat tall figure. But if we go deeper into this issue, then it can be light or dark brown or blue eyes, as well as all colors and shades of green. The hair is light or dark blond and very thick, and the figure is slender, tall. There is no regularity in the shape of the nose and lips of a Russian person. They can be completely different. But the skin of Russians is often light and matte.

The ratio of the characteristics of a person and the description of his appearance

A few centuries ago, some scientists noticed the correspondence of appearance and some character traits, personality characteristics. A full person is characterized by addictions (for example, to food), that is, he has weak willpower. Such people are guided by the opinions of others, friendly and love communication.

People with a visually large head and shoulders love risk, are prone to physical activity, but do not differ in mercy and compassion.

Thin people with a high forehead and a narrow chest are characterized as sensitive, loving solitude, quiet, secretive, inactive in communication.

There are theories that link complexion, its asymmetry, impulsiveness with the lifestyle that a person leads. The description of appearance in this case will be based on external characteristics and characteristics of human activity.

In addition, there is back side this process. It is necessary to pay attention to who makes the description of the person's appearance. Example: a person who is inclined to control everything will first describe the leadership traits of a person and his behavior in this vein. Subjects seeking to constantly enrich themselves will pay attention to the cost of watches, cosmetics on the face and clothes, and so on.

- introducing children to world art culture.

Tasks:

Get acquainted with the portrait of the artist Levitsky;

Learn to compose descriptive story about your face, develop attentiveness, observation;

Learn to understand the combination of colors, their selection, the ratio of color and shadow in the portrait;

Cause an emotional response, help to feel and understand the beauty depicted in the portrait.

Develop attention, speech, fine motor skills of the fingers.

1. 1st level: draw without a diagram (on clean sheets paper);
2. oh level: draw according to the scheme (on sheets with ready-made ovals of the face), transfer your image in the drawing.

Vocabulary work:self-portrait, gamma.

Auxiliary material:filmstrip "Levitsky's Creativity" (fragment), reproductions of paintings by famous portrait painters, sheets of paper, paints, mirrors.

Lesson progress

1. Organizing time,

Breathing exercises.

1. introduction educator.

Guys, we have come to the artist's studio. Look how beautiful it is here. You too can become artists. But only that one will succeed. Who is very observant, attentive and recognizes a friend by description.

1. The game "Find out by description"

Task: to recognize a friend by description.

The teacher, without naming the child, describes his appearance. Whoever guessed who we are talking about becomes an artist and takes his place.

1. Working with portraits

The teacher reads the poem:

If you see that someone is looking at us from the picture,

Or a prince in an old cloak Or a climber in a robe,

Pilot or ballerina

Or Kolya, your neighbor,

Be sure the picture is called ... (Portrait)

• Now I will show you a portrait of a young girl. Wrote it famous artist Levitsky. This is a portrait of his daughter. (The teacher shows a fragment of a filmstrip - the face of a girl, gives a description of the portrait).
• I will tell about the face of this girl. She has full face oval shape. The eyes are at the top of the face. The eyes are large, round, Brown. Above the eyes in the form of an arc are wide black eyebrows. Below eye-nose. The nose is straight, a little large. lips thin, Pink colour. The forehead is open, long black hair combed back.
• Guys, let's remember together the description of the girl, compiled by me.

a) What did I say at the beginning? (Children's answers are about the face.)

b) Then? (About eyes, eyebrows.)

c) And at the end? (About the nose, about the lips, about the hair.)

• The artist Levitsky looked at his daughter and painted her portrait. I described her face with words.
• Look what I have. (Mirror.)

My light, mirror, tell me Yes, tell the whole truth.

Am I dearest in the world,

All blush and whiter?

• Who spoke to his mirror like that? (Princess from "The Tale of dead princess and seven bogatyrs).
• I, looking in the mirror, will tell you about my face. (Teacher's story.)
• And now you will talk about your face. And for this you need a mirror.

Story plan

1. What is the shape of the face: round, oval, triangular, square.
2. Eyes: size, shape, color.
3. Nose: large, small, long, straight, snub-nosed.
4. Eyebrows: straight, arched, thick, sparse, wide, narrow.
5. Lips: large, small, full, thin.
6. What are the features on the face: scars, moles, freckles?
7. Where are the ears? What are they in size?
8. Hair: black, white, red, long, short, thick, sparse.

1. Conversation with children.

• Guys, look at yourself in the mirror.
• Lena, what color are your eyes?
• And you, Andryusha, do you see yourself in the mirror? What kind of hair do you have?

The teacher reminds the plan of the story.

• Look at this plan, it will help you to make a verbal portrait.
• Who wants to talk about their face? (The stories of two children.)

1. Analysis of children's stories.

• Guys, you carefully examined yourself in the mirror, talked about your face. Did you like yourself?
• I suggest you draw your self-portrait. (The teacher explains the meaning of the word.)
• Look, I also painted my portrait.

Children draw their self-portraits. Level 1: draw without a diagram (on blank sheets of paper);

2nd level: draw according to the scheme (on sheets with ready-made ovals of the face), transfer your image in the drawing.

This is followed by an exhibition of self-portraits in a group.

Reflection:

What new did you learn today?

What famous portrait painters do you remember?

Literature:

« Basics aesthetic education» edited by N. A. Kushaev. Moscow. "Enlightenment" 1985

O. V. Davedenko "Aesthetics" Moscow "Ast-Press" 2001

V. G. Porudominsky "Happy meetings" Moscow "Enlightenment" 1990

My friend is short, with broad shoulders and a strong build. He is very attractive, blue-eyed, blond hair. He is often invited to the Olympics because he is smart and talented. Girls like him, as he is protective and cheerful, you will not get bored with him. He is also careful and takes care of himself, his appearance. Him good character, he does not put on airs, does not like lies and dishonesty. I would like to please him by inviting him to our country house for barbecues. He loves to relax in nature. I think he will like this offer.

I have a friend who has brown hair green eyes, she loves small dogs and cats, her character is quick-tempered and mischievous, but I love her for her sense of humor, but she herself does not like when they joke about her.
when she comes to visit me we play various games. she loves to clean and I always wonder how you can love to clean so much.
she is very good friend, sometimes very harmful, sometimes funny, but for this I love her.

I have a friend whom I understand with half a word. She: kind, with a sense of humor, always ready to support in difficult moment always listens and gives advice. She is also blonde, tall, medium build, blue eyes. Maybe she's kind of strange, but for me she a true friend

Vera and I are friends with early childhood because we live in the same house. Faith is very beautiful girl. She has large green eyes and long, waist-length black hair, which she has been growing since she was five years old. Vera's hair is the envy of all her friends. Vera has a thin straight nose, small ears and a wide forehead. A strong-willed chin betrays a determined and purposeful personality in my girlfriend. And indeed, Vera will always achieve her goal, no matter how difficult it is. Vera is very neat, all her things are in their places, notebooks and textbooks in covers so that they do not rub or get dirty. And at home she always has order, because Vera is not afraid of work and is happy to help her mother clean and cook. Vera dresses with taste and knows how to decorate even the simplest outfit with a strap, a handbag or a matching scarf, scarf. She herself likes to sew suits and dresses for herself, because she is engaged in a youth clothing design studio. After graduating from school, Vera is going to study as a designer in order to model costumes for theater and cinema herself. Vera is diligent and patient, so she gets mostly good grades at school. My friend's favorite lessons are literature and history. In addition to sewing, Vera likes to watch TV. She likes popular science films about animals and the mysteries of our planet, as well as Disney cartoons. But the most important thing is that Vera is a good friend, which means she will never let me down and leave me in trouble.