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The ability to decode, interpret, create, question, challenge and evaluate visual images, and multi-media. Visually literate people can read the intended meaning in a visual text, interpret the purpose and intended meaning, and evaluate the form, structure and features.

What is seen with the eye and what is “seen” with the mind.

 

Visual Literacy Questions

How does the image make me feel? Why?

What colours are used? What do they Evoke?

What appeals to you about the image?

What techniques are used to produce the image? What impact does the technique have?

What can you tell about the characters? Are they friendly or ferocious?

What do you think the illustrator wished to convey?

 

Audio Visual Questions

Include the above and add:-

What do you think about this video?

What is the visual message?

Who's perspective is it from?

Focus your eyes ears and hearts

What sort of images are used, closeups, extreme closeups, long shots, wide shots etc.

What are they doing?

Who  do you identify with?

What is the tone?

What transitions are used?

How long are the cuts? What impact does this have?

What is the music like? Is it soft, loud , fast slow what style is it?

How does the music impact on the message?

 

VISUAL LITERACY- Why We Need It  Brian Kennedy

Great video for Staff meetings. Get the ball rolling with this video.

 

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VISUAL LITERACY

George Lucas

Teaching Visual Literacy & Communications

A great video - dealing with the importance of visual literacy and suggesting the renaming of English of Language Arts to Communication

Martin Scorsese

the Importance of Visual Literacy

From the master himself - the Grammar of visual literacy is important to understand. What you’re doing is training the eye and the heart of the student to look at a film in a different way by asking questions and pointing to different ideas, different concepts, suggestions.

Media Smarts: Kids Learn How to Navigate the Multimedia World

Critical-thinking skills -- and fluency in multimedia production -- are integral to media literacy.

Edutopia

Lucasfilm shows off Star Wars 1313 concept video game with customisable assets the Multimedia World

OVER THE NEXT DECADE video game engines will be used in film-making, with the two disciplines combining to eliminate the movie post-production process.

 

This is a big step Towards Sentient Robots 3-Sweep: Extracting Editable Objects from a Single Photo

Importance of this new Technique Geosymantic Projection

This new technique is important because it appears to have encapsulated very effectively the semantic aspect of understanding 3D objects. Now that it's so precisely defined, the task of moving this into a robot should be much easier.

 

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Camera Ramesh Raskar: Imaging at a trillion frames per second

A must watch video. Ramesh Raskar presents femto-photography, a new type of imaging so fast it visualizes the world one trillion frames per second, so detailed it shows light itself in motion. This technology may someday be used to build cameras that can look "around" corners or see inside the body without X-rays.

ASK students to take notes and invent a superhero with this new Power.

ASK students to describe how light moves in slow motion.

 

EYE - be Amazed

Amazing - were you tricked - did you say WOW! What does this mean for visual Literacy

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