Lecture 2: Visual Literacy

I'm not going to lie, I had next to zero knowledge when it came to Visual Literacy, I'd never even heard the two words used together in a sentence before. The more I listened though, the more I noticed that I DID know about it but just didn't realise it. It was nice to learn about the different types (i.e. visual synecdoche, metonym and metaphor) but I'm not fully sure what to do with this newly acquired information. Then again, the lecture did make me think about the importance of my target audience, and that different signs, symbols and images can be interpreted differently depending on how they are presented and the cultural understanding of said things, so I can bare this in mind when I am planning out animations.