Visual+Literacy

ASSIGNMENT:

When looking at this visual I get a feeling that this is directed at one country in particular. This design is implying that Americans are obese and consume way to much meat. 20 billion hot dogs consumed by Americans each year makes you sort of wonder what is in the future to come. If we Americans keep consuming like this what is the message to the future generation. By having the world look at us as fat over weight nobodies it makes me kind of upset. Why should all Americans suffer for what is now becoming an epidemic? The overall design to me is very simple, but gets the point across very effectively. The figures in the visual show the different types of meats we Americans each, but notice that there is a KFC bucket and to the left of it is a little chicklet. They are showing that Americans kill little babies for food, but in reality they are grown chickens. The contrast is very nice it has a nice flow to what it is trying to get across. Also notice how they repeat the implication of all Americans consume meat. The colors are bright and effective at showing the people the facts. The pictures have a very nice spacing to where the visuals are not over lapping. I feel that if the visual had another countries statistics that it could have been more effective to get the point across even more, since it shows how really bad we are. Who is to say that China is any better when it comes to overproteined.

REFLECTION:

I thought this was a good assignment because I was able to really look deeper into a visual more then normal. I was able to see how different pictures next to one another can be a hidden message. The way colors go together to grab peoples attention is very important. Also giving people the strait facts about whats true and whats happing around us. I will use this type of visual in my history classes as facts to compare weights back in 1865 vs today's society. Also I will tell my students to look deeper into visuals because you don't know what hidden message you could notice.