The Intro: What is Visual Communication?

        Let’s start this post off with one question: How is visual communication expressed as form of communication? Using our verbal communication is a way to express ourselves and shows symbolism. When we use our verbal language, we use our voice, tempo, and loudness to show how much our words to mean to us. The word denotation means when we look at the dictionary for a word, and take that how it is. Even though we do this, there is more to the word than the basic dictionary definition. We use these words to help us express ourself, emotions, relate to stories, attitudes, not to just use the world strictly how it looks to us. When we hear of visual communication, we think its based on an expressive basis but words actually play a huge role in helping us communicate through visual communication. On the other hand, there is also connotation. Connotation is the implied meanings, emotions and associations also expanding and repositioning the denotative meaning. When using connotation, it is expanded through words and images, also through emotion and social experiences. 

       There are so many movies and shows that use visual communication to pursue through their audience. For example, Pixar uses tons of visual's to communicate their message to their viewers. When watching a Pixar movie, they use simple visual cues to show us that. In the movie, Monster’s University, there are three main characters; Mike, Sully and Hardscrabble. The shapes that were used to design these character’s shows shapes that amplified and reflected their character. Mike is a ball who looks less scarier compared to Sully who is a rectangle and harder to move and Hardscrabble who is pointy made up of triangles, leading her to look more threatening. While looking at the shapes, the color is also very important to take note of. Color of the visuals can guide the viewer’s eye while also looking at how dark or light something is (value) which makes it stand out from everything else in an image. 

“Words show, do not tell”

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  1. Konstantyn's CornerOctober 10, 2021 at 8:10 PM

    WOW I never even thought about Monster Inc, and Monsters University like that. So informative. Made want to rewatch some movies and pick up on visual cues.

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  2. Akilah PereiraOctober 12, 2021 at 9:26 PM

    Hey great blog post, I loved the fact that you used Monsters ink as an example of how shapes and colors can create visual cues and enhance a character. This reminds me of my story that I created for our recent story book assignment. I did the “three little pigs” and I drew the pigs as small circles and I colored them pink. As for the wolf I made him a big weird pointy shape which made him look scary. So by changing shapes we can definitely create different perspectives and stories.

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