English 5 Q4 -Analyzing Visual and Multimedia Elements

• Text - It is one of the basic elements of multimedia. It conveys information to the audience, tell stories and describes things, interpret graphics and charts, inform people about an event, or tell something about a person.
• Graphics - Are part of visual presentation material. It displays information graphically, which cannot be expressed in letters and words.
• Animation - it is a collection of graphics applied with movement.
• Audio - is produced by vibration as perceived by the sense of hearing. In multimedia, audio could come in a form of speech, sound effects, and also music score.
• Multimedia - is a term that combines two or more media types such as video, audio, animation, and text into a single presentation.
• Video - is a technology of capturing, recording, transmitting, and reconstructing moving pictures.
• Line - is the foundation of all drawings, it can suggest shape, pattern, growth, movement, form, depth, distance, rhythm, and a range of emotions.
• Vertical lines - it suggests height and strength.
• Horizontal Lines - it suggests calmness and distance.
• Jagged lines - it suggests excitement, unease and destruction.
• Curved lines - it suggests comfort and ease.
• Symbol - is a visual image that is used to represent a concept or an idea.
• Color - has the strongest effect on our emotions. We use color to create the mood or the atmosphere of an artwork.
• White - represents purity, innocence, timelessness and mystical.
• Blue - represents coolness, calmness, wisdom, loyalty, trust and faith.
• Black - represents evil, mysterious power, and fear.
• Red - represents action, passion, masculinity, emotion and danger.
• Gaze - refers to where the figure in the picture is looking. It implies looking at someone or something based on ones beliefs and judgement.
• Framing - is deciding what will be shown or what will not be shown in a photograph or picture.
• Symbols - are representations of concept or ideas.
• Visual elements - are any characteristics that we can percieve with our eyes or sight.