Visual Techniques

Facial, expressions, gestures, or position can convey attitude, feeling or personality of the individual shown

How things are laid out and deliberately placed

Black and white images examine the use of contrast, in colour they are used to convey feelings

Placement of two things closely together to emphasize comparisons or contrasts

arrangement of opposite elements to convey meaning

Splitting the image into thirds to view different points

The different shots/ angles of an image in a picture or show

What has been deliberately left out.

Relates to framing, the responders position

The focus point of the image, created by size, colour and contrast

the use of symbols to represent ideas or qualities

The lines composers use for our eyes to follow around the page

The path your eye takes as you look at an image.

Where the subjects eyes are looking at something

When the subject looks at you and gives the feeling that it wants something from you

Something in the book that act as a barrier by splitting up certain things or people apart

When a text, image or idea refers to another