A Seven-Power Lens on 21st- Century Literacy
“By sequentially focusing seven increasingly strong lenses on the news media, beginning with a close-up look at a news photo, students learn to apply powerful cross-disciplinary skills of visual, news media, and information literacy to analyze current political issues.”
I feel this quote best describes the entire feel of the article. The seven lenses are incredibly insightful when deconstructing a photo or an article. The idea of using our senses first to get the basic understanding of the photo is the farthest most people will ever go. However, this quote guides us in a further direction to look deeper and apply other skills to analyze political issues through a simple photo. By using visual skills learned in other areas, we will be able to understand photos better. We need to apply all information learned and questioned when looking at our media sources. The seven lenses the quote describes breaks down our examination into simple steps for everyone to follow. Those seven steps are senses, inference, research, contexts, evaluation, synthesis and teaching. Through critical examination using these steps students will be able to apply their own basic knowledge and further understand all aspects of the photograph.
I found this website based around image analysis that follows similar steps to deconstructing photos or images as Debbie Abilock describes in her article.
“Every element of an image contributes to its meaning, and much time and thought is devoted to mise en scène (putting things in the picture) by the creators of an image.” This quote is a basic summary of the article written by Karina Wilson. She has different titles for each “lens” however the steps and the basic breakdown are quite similar. Her article uses these steps Organization (how the photo is taken), Composition (what is in the photo), Framing (where does the real picture begin and end), Lighting (natural or artificial), Colors (anything that sticks out, to create mood or atmosphere). Her steps apply simply to the photo without much deep thought required, creating the biggest difference between the two articles.
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