Reflection..
This week in class we focused a lot on perception an how it can change the way we look at things. We talk about different concepts like audience and framing and text and purpose and how these can be important when we are looking at visual images.
Audience is important when looking at visual images because figuring out who the audience is can help you better figure out to whom the message from the image is being conveyed. We looked at a black and white photo vs. the image again with color to see how that might change the audience. Framing is also important because it can be divided up into different ways and depending on the way the image is framed you can see the specific purpose that the image is offering. One way that we saw framing in the images was through lighting.
When talking about images with text, we talked about what the text was trying to accomplish; why was text used at all? We talked about a sentence of text vs. a few words and how that affected our perception of the image.
For our assignment at the end of the week we looked at a picture from Dan Eldon and tried to analyze all the different aspects of the collage to figure out the message of it when you looked at the collage with all the different elements.
I really enjoyed the analytical aspect of class this week and the critical thinking that came with looking at all the different aspects of audience,framing,text and purpose
