Language Features In Imagery

Question 1

Framing

Answer 1

Determines what the viewer will see and not see.
Artificial boundary

Question 2

Composition

Answer 2

Way that the elements within the frame are arranged.
The element/s in an image which stand out and attract the viewer’s attention, it refers to the feature in a composition that most grabs your attention.

Question 3

Salience (sing. salient)

Answer 3

Focal points

Question 4

Balance

Answer 4

Breaks image down into thirds
Placing points of interest in the intersections/along the lines that your photo becomes more balanced and will enable a viewer of the image to interact with it more naturally.
People’s eyes usually go to one of the intersection point most naturally.

Question 5

Vectors/leading lines

Answer 5

Lines that lead your eye from one element to another.

Question 6

Scale

Answer 6

The juxtaposition of large and small objects next to one another has an effect on the way we interpret things and the way we feel.
Consider what feelings or ideas are being communicated through the use of scale.

Question 7

Space

Answer 7

Liberal use of space indicates isolation, emptiness.
Busy illustration can infer chaos, lots of activity, energy.
Space ca also draw attention to specific objects.
Consider what feelings or ideas are being communicated through the use of space.

Question 8

Reading path

Answer 8

Path is that you take through a visual text.
The path moves from the most salient to the least salient elements.
It is the movement of the viewer’s gaze around a visual text.
Can be influenced by elements such as vectors, salience, gaze.

Question 9

Mise-en-scène

Answer 9

Refers to everything that appears before the camera and its arrangement - composition, sets, props, actors, costumes and lighting.