How to analyse an image Flashcards
GLOSSARY OF CRITICAL TERMS
1
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How to analyse an image
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- Plastic signs
- Iconic signs
- Linguistic signs
- Types of visual documents / supports
- Composition / Lay out
- Perspective & viewpoint
- Angle of vision
2
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Plastic signs
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- Non specific : colour, lighting, texture
- Specific signs : support, frame, framing, composition, angle of the shot
3
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Iconic signs
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clothes, places, socio-cultural codes the posture of the characters, their pose
4
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Linguistic signs
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typography, size and shape of the letter
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Types of visual documents / support
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- Caricature
- Cartoon
- Collage
- Comics trip
- Drawing
- Engraving
- Etching
- Photograph
- Photomontage
- Portrait Print
- Printed Illustration
- Shot
- Skecth
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Composition / Lay out
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Composition
* Pyramidal composition
* Asymetrical composition
* Intersecting planes
Dominant lines :
* diagonals
* oblique
* qlanting
* curving lines
* straight lines
* spiral
* parallel
* perpendicular
* interowen lines
- Axis / otlines / plan
- **Blackground / foreground **
- In the top left-hand corner / On the bottom right-hand side
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Perspective & viewpoint
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- Aerial perspective / bird’s eye view / linear perspective
- Single viewpoint / illusionism
- Vanishing points / Receding lines / Horizon line
- Visual effects : 3-D effect / 3-dimentional effect
- Picture Plane / Depth of field
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Angle of vision
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- high-angle shot / downward angle
- low-angle shot / upward angle
- eye-level / stadnard angle
- tilt-up / tilt down
9
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walk to right vs walk to left
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Walk to right = going future
Walk to left = going past
