General Analysis of Visual Subject Matter. Facial expressions, body language and relationship.

Image credit

Subject:

Image credit
facial expressions, body language and **relationships

Setting:

Image credit
time and place

Image credit

• How does this composition create meaning?

Composition and Layout:

Image credit
centre, foreground or **backgraound

Colour, Shading, Black and White:

• What is the effect of this?

Actions:

Image credit

• Is there something happening in the picture or is it static?
  What can be seen and what is inferred?

Images and Symbols:

Image credit

• What do they represent/ infer?

Salient or Focal Point

Image credit

• How is the viewer's eye intended to move across the visual?
  What is the significance of this?

Vectors:

Image credit

• They often draw attention to the focal point of the picture.
  Take note if they connect objects or people in the picture to each other.

Angle:

Image credit

Image credit

• At what angle the picture was taken and what is the significance?

Camera Shots:

Image credit

• Is the picture a close-up shot, long shot or medium shot?

Perspective:

Image credit

• Where are you in relation to the picture? Are you looking directly at the image, down at in or up at it? What is the effect?

Theme or Message:

Image credit

• What is being conveyed by the visual?

Source: EBH Joubert. Visual Literacy/Analysis

please follow me @frieda