Visual+Literacy

Erika Rael September 19, 2010 Visual Literacy Assignment I think the message was clear on the “Overprotiened” example. It was informing the readers or public on how much we eat as an American society in fast food, chicken, and hamburgers. As far as PAT goes I think there were some good and bad things about it. Some good things were the alignments, and the shape. The words were all aligned and equally spaced and the rectangle idea was good for the information provided. The bad things about this were the spacing, the repetition, and the proximity. There was too many graphics on the page, between the hamburger, bucket of chicken, the little chick, and the hot dog. It was just to much to look at. With the repetition, all of the numbers had a word under it like million or billion but the 127 did not have hundred under it. The spacing was wrong because they had pictures with every box and there is not enough room. If this were my project I would have made the font larger and taken off a few graphics. I would have only put the hamburger and the bucket of chicken at the top. If I had to put a live animal in there I would have put a chicken, not a baby chick. It makes it look like we as consumers are eating baby chicks. I also think that it would be too much to put a chicken there if you already had the bucket of chicken. Now I am not if that bucket had the name of the company on it but it looked like a KFC bucket. I would have tried to create my own bucket just in case you are not aloud to do that.