Text
Is text used within the visual image? If so, how does it help to create meaning?
Vectors
Vectors are used to draw your attention/focus towards certain areas of a visual image. They can be in formed using colour, objects resembling arrows, or simply through tweaking the focus of an image.
Colour
The choice of colour in an image can significantly alter how we extract, interpret and understand meaning. It can change the mood, adjust the focus and challenge the intersection between what we perceive the visual to represent and the mood the use of colour signifies. See what you think by looking at these two photos...
Angle and perspective
Angle and perspective is one of the major tools for visual literacy. The angle or perspective something is viewed from has a huge influence on how power is distributed between the object/person and viewer, as well as framing the focus within the visual image itself.