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7E Quiz:

Explaining how visual techniques create meaning

7E Quiz:

Explaining how visual techniques create meaning

Pick the best description of the colour palette used in this image:

Green, brown, white

Vibrant, highly saturated shades of green, bright white, and deep browns

Lots of different colours. There are some brown colours. And some green ones. Sprinkles of white. Bright colours

Beautiful colours

What does the colour palette symbolise in this image?

Envy and greed

Digust

Money

Life and health

So, if we have a colour palette made up of vibrant, highly saturated shades of green, bright white, and deep browns that symbolise life and health what is our composer trying to say about nature?

Nature is beautiful and calming

Nature is a source of energy and renewal

Nature is mesmerising and inspiring

Nature is peaceful

Nature is protective and helps us escape our stress

Let's put our ideas together by filling in the blanks to this scaffold:

The composer has used __________(describe the colour palette)_______ to symbolise _____________________. This helps responders to understand _________(message about nature)____________

What element of this image functions as the vector?

The sky

The grass

The pathway

The flowers

Where does the vector lead our eyes?

Into the open field

To the trees

Around the corner

Into nature

So, if the composer has used the pathway as a vector to lead our eyes to into the open field, what are they trying to say about nature as a muse?

Nature is calming and peaceful

Nature is relaxing

Nature provides moments of freedom and escape

Nature is very open, wide, and grande. It is very big and spacious.

Let's put our ideas together by filling in the blanks to this scaffold:

The composer has used __________(describe the vector)_______ to lead the responder's eyes _____________________. This helps responders to understand _________(message about nature)____________

Look at this image carefully.

In the box below, write down one message about nature you thing the composer is trying to communicate through this image.

Hint: It is not nature is peaceful/calming/relaxing.

Now that you have your message. Look at the image again.

In the box below, write down and describe one visual technique that the composer has used to create this message

Eg. Salience, colour, framining, symbolism.

Last step! Connect the dots.

In the box below, tell me how exactly the technique you have chosen communicates the message about nature.

Hint: Do not tell me what the technique does in general. Be specific to the image. Use words like "it shows", "it emphasises", "it symbolises", "it draws attention to"

Put it all together. Complete this scaffold in the box below:

The composer has used __________(describe the technique)_______ to emphasise/draw attention to/symbolise _____________________. This helps responders to understand _________(message about nature)____________

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