Visual Communications

[masscommmadi]

This close-up picture of an elephant is a good example of affinity. Aside from the elephant's eye, there isn't much color intensity. The visual intensity of this picture is pretty low since its almost entirely just shades of grey.

[masscommmadi]

This is the trailer for the movie Domino that came out in 2005. The trailer possesses a lot of contrast which adds to the intensity of this action movie.

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[masscommmadi]

This is a picture of a scuba diver on an underwater wall in the ocean. By the bending of water at the top of the picture, I would say it was taken with a fish-eye lens. This also could add to the warping of the fish around the scuba diver.

[masscommmadi]

This is from one of the photography projects that my dad does in his extra time. It captures the movement of a single water drop hitting a water surface. Since its a picture, there is no actual movement but we can infer by the splashes that the moving water droplet transferred energy to the water creating the splash.

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[masscommmadi]

This is a good example of the line visual component. The lines in this picture are being revealed due to the contrast in all the colors.

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[masscommmadi]

This is a really good example of rotoscoping that I came across. I like how it shows a sample of the original footage then the same sample rotoscoped to better understand the concept.

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[masscommmadi]

This is a short animation from the cartoon Courage the Cowardly Dog that used to air on Cartoon Network. It can be used as multi-frame cartoon example.

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[masscommmadi]

This is from A Trip to the Moon, which was the first movie to use special effects and animated drawings. George Melies made it in 1902, and from what we watched in class I think it certainly would be interesting to watch and see just how much has changed since.

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[masscommmadi]

The Yellow Kid by Richard Outcault is what eventually lead to the term "Yellow" journalism. It started with this cartoon and stemmed to Hearst's and Pulitzer's cartoon war.

[masscommmadi]

Initially, I thought this commercial was really weird when I first saw it on TV, but after seeing it a few more times I liked the message more. It's Southern Comfort's goofy way on going against the stereotypical liquor commercials with all extremely attractive men and women. The song in the background is also spreading the message of being yourself.

[masscommmadi]

This video is a part of Dove's campaign for real beauty series. It closely relates to the other videos by Dove that we watched in class, but really zeros in on how women always focus most on the negativity of their features.

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[masscommmadi]

Using image analysis from the historical perspective, I can tell this intentionally made to imitate Picasso's style of art in contrast to Dali. They are both painting the object between them but since they have such distinct styles of art, their paintings hardly resemble the object at all. The image requires prior knowledge of both of these artists to understand the message.

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[masscommmadi]

Stereotypes are grounded in laziness. They may help get a quick point across in the media, but they're overall unfair and undermine the the uniqueness of each living individual.

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[masscommmadi]

This isn't necessarily what we went over as far as stereotyping groups of people in the media, but the media does play a large part in stereotyping aggressive dog breeds as well. In television shows or movies large dogs are intimidating to the characters in the show when in reality, not all dogs are man-eating beasts but rather a reflection of their owner/trainer.

[masscommmadi]

This a great example of sex in advertising in the way it screams, "Buy these shoes, and attract beautiful women!" Its targeted at men to want to be like the guy in the advertisement and experience that sexual excitement by purchasing Munich sneakers.

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[masscommmadi]

Although it's a little exaggeration of the examples we discussed in class, UFC fighting is a good example of how the media/society likes men to be portrayed. They have to be aggressive, powerful and have fit and muscular bodies.

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[masscommmadi]

As stated in our class lecture notes on Body Image and the Media, women are feeling more anxious about their weight by constantly opening magazines and watching TV programs that idolize super thin women. The Olsen twins have been in the spotlight in the past for issues being underweight, and many girls look up to them.