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Visual Information and Media: Made by Sebastian Karl de Vera Carlo Dela Rosa John Leonard Salazar

This document discusses different types of visual media like ideograms, statistical visualization, pictures, graphic design, video, and 3D images. It also talks about how visual information has been used throughout history for communication. One of the key powers of visual media discussed is its ability to persuade and affect people emotionally. The document provides the example of how a viral photo of a politician helping during a disaster could influence voting decisions. It also analyzes the famous "vulture and girl" photo and how it both won a Pulitzer prize but also contributed to the photographer's suicide due to criticism over why he didn't help the child.

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Visual Information and Media: Made by Sebastian Karl de Vera Carlo Dela Rosa John Leonard Salazar

This document discusses different types of visual media like ideograms, statistical visualization, pictures, graphic design, video, and 3D images. It also talks about how visual information has been used throughout history for communication. One of the key powers of visual media discussed is its ability to persuade and affect people emotionally. The document provides the example of how a viral photo of a politician helping during a disaster could influence voting decisions. It also analyzes the famous "vulture and girl" photo and how it both won a Pulitzer prize but also contributed to the photographer's suicide due to criticism over why he didn't help the child.

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MADE BY SEBASTIAN KARL DE VERA

CARLO DELA ROSA


JOHN LEONARD SALAZAR

VISUAL INFORMATION AND


MEDIA
VISUAL MEDIA
 Any symbols, pictures,
icons, signs and others
that communicates
with one’s sense of
sight
Ideograms
 These are graphical
symbols that represent
ideas. Examples are
signs, logos, and
symbols
Statistical
visualization
 These are graphical
symbols that represent
ideas.
 Examples of such are pie
graphs, bar graphs and
etc…
Picture
 Photography, painting,
drawing, and the line all fall
under pictures.
 It is used widely by people to
express their ideals, opinions,
and sentiments
Graphic Design
 This refers to the art of
combining text and pictures to
communicate information,
infographics, posters, and
graphic advertisements are
considered as graphic designs
Video
 If graphic design is the
combination of text and
pictures, video is the
combination of motion and
picture; or of motion, picture,
and audio
3-D Image
 A three-dimensional
visual medium can be a
sculpture, an
architecture, a real-life
object
Visual Information
 The information that a person
gets from the visual medias
mentioned earlier is called visual
information.
 The ideas that you have
perceived after viewing the
visual media
History

 Archeological findings suggest


that visual communication
started way back in 40 000 BCE.
 As history progressed so did
visual media.
The Power Of Visual
Information
 Visual communication is a
powerful form of
communication for visual
messages stimulate both
intellectual and emotional
responses.
How greatly does visual
information affects people?
VISUAL INFORMATION
POWER OF VISUAL MEDIA
THE POWER TO PERSUADE
 One power of visual information is
that people usually ground their
beliefs and ideologies base upon it,
hence the saying “to see is to
believe”
 One manifestation of this power is
when a person votes for a politician
whose picture while helping a
typhoon victim went viral.
THE POWER TO AFFECT
THE POWER TO AFFECT

 When you see the symbols presented,


you’ll think and feel things and it will affect
your emotions, when in reality the symbols
presented are just imges made up of lines
and shapes, however because of the
connotations attached to them, these
design brought different emotions and
interpretations to many people, including
you
THE POWER TO MAKE AND BREAK
THE POWER TO MAKE AND BREAK

 The vulture and the little girl, also known as


"Struggling Girl", is a photograph by Kevin Carter which
first appeared in The New York Times on 26 March
1993. It is a photograph of a frail famine-stricken boy,
initially believed to be a girl, who had collapsed in the
foreground with a vulture eyeing him from nearby. The
child was reported to be attempting to reach a United
Nations feeding center about a half mile away in Ayod,
South Sudan, in March 1993. The picture won the
Pulitzer Prize for Feature Photography award in 1994.
Carter committed suicide four months after winning
the prize.
THE POWER TO MAKE AND BREAK

 ANOTHER ISSUE IN VISUAL


COMMUNICATION IS HOW PEOPLE REACT
TO THE VISUAL INFORMATION.
 The picture presented, caused different
interpretations, praises and criticism and
even led the photographer to break his life
and commit suicide after facing criticisms,
financial difficulties and emotional trauma.
THE POWER TO MAKE AND BREAK

 People judged the photographer for not


helping the kid in the picture, but they
didn’t know is that the photographers were
told not to touch the famine victims
because of the risk of disease of
transmission, that is why he wasn’t able to
help the kid.

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