Introduction To Visual Literacy

Question 1

What is visual literacy

Answer 1

It enables us to understand and appreciate images

Question 2

Basic elements of Visual Literacy

Answer 2

Composition: specific elements places within a frame 
Colour
Texture
Line
Type shot
Camera moves 
Camera angle 
Focus

Question 3

The use of colours

Answer 3

Moods feelings+emotions are expressed through colour

Warm:
Red-danger or anger
Yellow-warmth,happiness

Dark:
Black-evil,doom

White-purity

Blue:calm,sad

Green-envy

Question 4

Line

Answer 4

Horizontal-peace

Diagonal-dynamic,energy

Vertical-strength,spirituality

Curved-smooth

Question 5

Texture

Answer 5

Feel of an object’s surface

Feel it with eyes=picture’s reality

Question 6

Focus

Answer 6

Camera angles adjusted

Soft,sharp

Question 7

Type shot

Answer 7

Long shot: Over all picture, show landscape, building around

Extreme long shot: shows much of locale

Full shot: Concentrates on subject, background 2nd

Medium shot: From waist up-body language Hal in frame

Close up: Small part subject, importance to object

Extreme close up: focuses enlarged detail, draw attention to specific features, part face fills screen

Question 8

Camera angles

Answer 8

Worms eye view: taken from ground up, height

Low angle: Enlarges and shows superiority, camera below subject, height and power

Normal/straight angle: Neutral attitude

High angle: subject vulnerable, looks down and take away power of subject

Bird’s eye view: from top to bottom, gives total picture, Godlike view, disorienting

Oblique angle: tilt camera, figure appears to be falling out of frame, tension and transition, drunk viewpoint

Question 9

Camera moves

Answer 9

Panning: moves around horizontally/ up down vertical

Use of dolly: camera/recorder on track wheels

Hand held shots: camera/recorder being held, more real

Question 10

Over the shoulder shot

Answer 10

2 figures, 1 back to camera and another facing camera

Question 11

Point of view

Answer 11

Sees what characters sees

Question 12

Eye level

Answer 12

Regular view

Question 13

Tilt

Answer 13

Camera points up/down

Question 14

Wipe

Answer 14

A scene pushes another out

Question 15

Boom

Answer 15

Camera moves up, down through space

Long stick moves camera

Question 16

Zoom

Answer 16

Camera no move, shift in focal length

Question 17

Cut

Answer 17

Transition between scenes

Question 18

Iris

Answer 18

Shot emerges inside out

Question 19

Dissolve

Answer 19

Image vanishes gradually and another begins

Fade in/ out
Dark emerges form dark

Question 20

Photography

Answer 20

Art form created by someone