Visual Literacy Examples

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Visual literacy is the ability to find meaning in image. Often we walk by many advertisements and pictures and take them for granted. Now a day’s information is given more in both words and images and it is essential that students develop the skills so they have an understanding of what the images are portraying. Visual literacy is very important because you can help kids or adults better clarify images or media that they might come across. For example, when a baby is born and while growing up, the child has to learn and recognize qualities or features to help them understand objects. Reading and giving a message through an image is skill which can be obtained while growing up. Some are taught visual literacy as school and a few children are taught …show more content…

The image is portraying that if you use this baby powder you will be sexy and smell clean which will attract men towards you. For example Axe, every time they advertise their products they make sure girls are in the advertisements because they are portraying if you use Axe, girls will come running to you. This advertisement is tricking women to think if you use this baby-powder it will make you look sexy and innocent like the girl in the advertisement. Another example can be, hair products because hair products are trying to say if you use this spray for your hair, your hair will look like what is shown on the box. Love’s Baby Soft’s pathos is very clear and we can also see the audience which the company wants to attract. While looking at the image you are supposed to feel more open because of how the model is postured and also if you buy the product you will look like that too. Their pathos is also clear because of the model and colours used, if they put a beautiful model and pink in the advertisement, it will get customers that are insecure and want to look and feel like the model to buy the

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