Memo: Journal Preface

To: Julianne Newmark
From: David Hudson

This 'scrapbook' of images and analysis of images is designed to show various aspects of visual communication in media. Some of the pieces chosen are famous throughout American culture, where as others are not well known - often chosen by grabbing examples of specific imagery from image search engines. All of the images are chosen to illustrate a particular topic as determined from the project rubric.

Each entry in this scrapbook is designed to communicate a specific aspect of visual communication, and taken as a whole they represent an analysis of a varied sample of the different types of imagery that we see in media and throughout our lives.

Analysis of each individual image in this scrapbook is representative of a class of imagery, and is useful both in the case of the specific example provided as well as application of the concept highlighted in the entry in general.

There is far too much visual media in general to represent all visual communication as a whole in a small collection such as this, but this smattering of analysis provides the reader with the kind of logic that goes into analyzing visual imagery in general.

Some entries are, by their problem descriptions, more opinionated than others. I have made an attempt to avoid injecting my bias into the analysis of the visual media that are analyzed here, but ultimately some entries will still contain it to some degree. This is the nature of this assignment, and as such the reader should take that into consideration during the reading of these articles.

Terminology that is used in this scrapbook attempts to focus on the terminology introduced in class. This may make the entries difficult to follow when the terminology becomes dense. However, an effort has been made to explain each usage (at least the first time) in a way that the reader can follow, and allow them to gain an understanding of the term before moving on.

Entries are arranged from most to least recent. Titles and numbers of entries are taken from the project description, which should allow the reviewer to easily sift through entries during grading.

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