Introduction
-Intro
-semiotics
-denotation & connotation
-light & the mechanics of vision
-the basic visual elements
-montage & Mise-en-Scene
I started concentrating so hard on my vision that I lost sight.
---Robin Green, Northern Exposure, Burning Down the House, 1992
Every person takes the limits of their own field of vision for the limits
of the world.
---Arthur Schopenhauer (1788 - 1860)
Vision - It reaches beyond the thing that is, into the conception of what
can be. Imagination gives you the picture. Vision gives you the impulse to
make the picture your own.
---
Robert Collie
I shut my eyes in order to see.
---Paul Gauguin (1848 - 1903)
What is Visual Literacy?
Visual literacy is an emerging area of study which deals with visual interpretation of what we see.
It can involve the study of: the physical processes involved in visual perception; the use of technology to represent visual imagery; and intellectual strategies used to interpret and understand what is seen.