User’s guide to visual literacy

By josh.m and josh,s

Close up shot

• Close-ups are useful for showing detail of the object in the shot.

Extreme close up

• An extreme close is too close to show general reactions or emotion except in very dramatic scenes.

Low angle shot

• A low angle shot is used to make you feel powerless and the object powerful.

Long shot

• A long shot is used to show the object but also the surroundings.

High angle shot

• A high angle shot is used to make you feel powerful and the object powerless.

Full shot

• A full shot is like a long shot it is used tom show the object but also some of the of the surroundings.

Eye level shot

• An eye level shot is used to make you and the object feel equal.

Mid shot

• The mid shot shows some part of the subject in more detail, whilst still showing enough for you to feel as if you were looking at the whole subject.

Salience

• Salience is used to make the object stand out.

offer

• Is were the object makes you feel unwonted.

demand

• Demand is used when trying to get to you to feel like object to want's you.

Low modality

• Is like how real the pitcher is, so low modality is a cartoon

High modality

• Modality is how real something is so high modality means it’s real.

vectors

• A vector is an imaginary line made by the object.

Colure symbolism

• We use colures to represent different types of objects.

Font

• We use different types of font to represent different thing for example if we won’t to show a reader that a kid has written that piece of writing we would use some thing like this.

framing

• Framing is used to draw attention to an object.