Attending to the "Visual" Aspects of Visual Storytelling: Using Art and Design Concepts to Interpret and Compose Narratives with Images

Autor/in	Williams, Wendy R.
Titel	Attending to the "Visual" Aspects of Visual Storytelling: Using Art and Design Concepts to Interpret and Compose Narratives with Images
Quelle	In: Journal of Visual Literacy, 38 (2019) 1-2, S.66-82 (17 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1051-144X
DOI	10.1080/1051144X.2019.1569832
Schlagwörter	Visual Aids; Story Telling; Personal Narratives; Design; Art; Visual Literacy; Undergraduate Students; Course Content; Picture Books; Cartoons; Novels; Photography; Essays; Films; Reflection; Creative Activities; Student Projects; Interpretive Skills; Skill Development; College English + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Anschauungsmaterial; Erlebniserzählung; Arts; Kunst; Literacy; Visualization; Visualisation; Schreib- und Lesekompetenz; Visualisierung; Kursprogramm; Picture book; Bilderbuch; Zeichentrickfilm; Novel; Roman; Fotografie; Essay; Aufsatzunterricht; Film; Schulprojekt; Interpretationsmethode; Kompetenzentwicklung; Qualifikationsentwicklung
Abstract	Visual storytelling comes in many forms (e.g. films, comics, photographs, commercials) and is used for a range of purposes (e.g. to entertain, inform, persuade). Technological advances are enabling non-specialists to be consumers and producers of these works. Although many people are growing up surrounded by visual works, this does not mean that they carefully attend to images. Education must prepare students to navigate the changing visual landscape. This study, which investigates an undergraduate Visual Narratives course taught in spring 2017 in the United States, focuses on students' uses of art and design elements. A content analysis of 124 course documents shows a wide range of art and design elements at work in students' visual narrative analyses (27 elements) and original compositions (26 elements), with many elements overlapping (21 shared). These results suggest that teaching a wide range of art and design elements can help students acquire a flexible toolkit for reading and composing different kinds of visual texts, expanding their visual literacy. Rather than serving as an end goal, this foundational knowledge offers a focused way of looking that could be combined with other lenses (critical race theory, feminist theory, etc.). (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01