Visual+Literacy

This assignment focused on visual images and the ability to derive meaning from them as well as the ability to use them effectively in a classroom situation, in this assignment I am analyzing a varity of visual images and how they work as learning tools.



The overall visual message that I have recieved from this image has to do with meat and that American's eat too much meat. I have come to understand this based on the spcific text insid ethe image. The biggest item that is throwing me off in the image is the chick at the bottom, I find that seems out of place in the image which while it does present a contrast to the forms of already process foods, it does turn me off from hte image. In addition to this it gives me the idea that it may be an image in favor of animal rights as opposed to the idea that American's just eat too much meat. The fond is consistent but because it is regarding the OVER consumption of food, I would expect to to be BIGGER, in order to emphasize the point of American's over consumtion of food. The colors also seem a little dull and the color of the box that the hot dog image lays over is too similar to the hot dog bun which makes it seem like it;s blending in. A positive about this image is the that it is somwhat organzied though I feel like the total message is not summed up in just the title of the chart. I feel like there needs to be more in order to explain the table. I would change quite a few things about this table, the first is the organization, I would have a fact bubble instead of a chart, in which I would put my main point that I wanted to come across in the middle. i would not have an image of a chick unless I had another image to balance it out, I would also use brighter and bigger colorad in order to emphasize the outrageous subject matter.