Visual Literacy Learning Outcomes

Digital Communication

• Ability to critically read, understand, and analyze visual, digital texts to produce meaning
• Ability to communicate and transmit visual messages effectively
• Ability to create and produce presentations expressing visual messages by selecting how to present them

Images

• Ability to quickly remember faces and places by recollecting details through mental images
• Ability to picture details in the mind

Videos

• Electronic medium for recording, copying, playback, broadcasting, and display of moving visual media
• Presents audio and visual images to an audience live, recorded, or a hybrid of both

Elements of Visual Literacy

Salience

• Technique of drawing the viewer's eye to what is important in an image
• Highlighting aspects through placement in the foreground, size of the object, and contrast in tone or color

Omissions

• Technique of omission and suggestion based on deleting or omitting a subject for a new purpose

Layout and Composition

• Creative activity of placing objects within a frame
• Choosing where to place shapes, dots, and lines on a two-dimensional plane

Framing

• Using elements in the scene to surround parts of the image to draw the viewer's attention to the subject

Color

• Expressing and developing ideas in images
• Interacting and relating with others through images
• Composing and structuring images

Body Language and Gaze

• Facial expressions, gestures, stance, or position convey attitude, feelings, or personality
• Direction of the subject's eyes conveys meaning

Angle and Perspective

• Angle is used to convey a point of view
• Low-angle shot conveys power and command
• Eye-level shot conveys equality

Visual Literacy

• Ability to make sense of a range of visual information
• Ability to 'read' visuals, appreciating and analyzing literal and inferred meaning
• Ability to effectively use images to communicate meaning

Visual Literacy Skills

• Interpreting images
• Analyzing the meaning of images
• Evaluating images and their sources
• Using images and visual media effectively
• Designing and creating meaningful images and visual media
• Understanding the wider context surrounding the creation and use of images and visual media

Visual Literacy Tools

Narratives

• Visual narrative includes photos and videos

Question Asking

• Asking questions to develop visual literacy skills

Writing

• Ability to compose text effectively for various purposes and audiences