An analysis of Action pictures by the Principal of the Caldeson Consultancy, Michael Steemson, indicates that all movement, activity and inactivity is illustrated by some 40 or so different image types, whether photographic or other graphic form.
Indexers filing on-line references of pictures showing one or more of these may usefully restrict their key word thesaurus to the following list of key words and synonyms. The actions are pictorially dis-similar, though the key words describing them may not always be so.
Over-page may be found synonym and key word lists for Concepts and Feelings and Facial Expressions. The following list of 16 groups of facial expressions has been condensed from about 100 key words with which they are linked. The expressions are pictorially similar, though the key words describing them may not necessarily be synonymous.
- ACTING
- ACTION
- ARGUING
- CALM
- CHAOTIC
- CLOSED
- COMMUNICATING
- CONCENTRATING
- COURTEOUS
- CRYING
- DANCING
- DISSENT: Fighting.
- DRINKING
- EATING
- EMBRACING
- ESCAPING
- FROWNING: Scowling.
- GESTURING
- JUMPING: Falling.
- LAUGHING
- PLAYING
- POSING
- RUNNING
- SHOUTING: Screaming.
- SINGING
- SITTING
- SLEEPING
- SMILING: Grinning, Leering.
- SMOKING
- STANDING
- STARING
- TALKING
- THINKING
- TOUCHING
- WALKING: Slouching.
- WHISPERING
- WORKING
The Caldeson Consultancy indexing key words continue with Concepts and Feelings over-page.