Year 7 Visual Lit

Visual Literacy is...

• Looking at images.

• How we 'read' and understand pictures.

• Salience.

• How we view pictures.

'The Lost Thing' is written and illustrated by...

Some visual literacy techniques are...

• Salience, colour, patterns & shapes.

• Salience, drawings, vector lines & shapes.

• Salience, colour, vector lines & shapes.

• Salience, colour, vector lines & pictures.

What is salience?

• The biggest part of an image.

• The feature in an image that is the most interesting.

• The most colourful part of an image.

• The feature in an image that attracts the viewer's attention.

What is the most salient part of this image?

• The water.

• The moon.

• The title.

• The stars.

What are vector lines?

• Visible or invisible lines which lead the viewer's eye to a certain aspect of an image.

• Visible or invisible lines.

• Lines that are straight.

• Visible or invisible lines which force you to look at the picture.

What technique is being used in this image?

• Size.

• Vector lines.

• Framing.

• Colour.

How are shapes used in visual literacy?

• To show that some characters are evil.

• To communicate sadness and evoke feelings.

• To communicate certain emotions and evoke a specific emotional response.

• Circles show friendly characters.

What does the colour blue communicate to viewers?

• Confusion, fish, peace.

• The sky.

• Happiness, joy, ocean.

• Sadness, calm, peace, freedom.

Light and _ is used to create atmosphere.