Visual+Literacy

Kelsey Tillery Visual Literacy Due: April 30th, 2012

It’s amazing to see how many of us the in the world eat certain foods that may not be healthy for us. My interpretation of this visual is to show the people in America that we are over proteined in chicken, burgers, and hotdogs. The figure and ground is good because it shows the exact number of foods trying to show us that is being overproteined. The hierarchy of this visual is scaled from 20 billion hotdogs consumed by Americans each year, 8 billion chickens raised for food each year in the U.S., 600 million Big Macs consumed by Americans at McDonald’s each year, and lastly 127 chickens eaten per second in America. The actions are also good they show the effects of certain foods and over protein. The visual could tell us how many hotdogs, and Big Macs are eaten a day also because it will show us the amount in a year and the amount in a day. The tools put together to make this visual are excellent because it shows an actual chicken, burger, hotdog, and KFC chicken. It really shows us the actually foods that are overproteined. The visual does not need improved at all. I feel like if the visual did not have the word overproteined in it then I would have been confused on what the visual was trying to explain. Over all I really like this visual and what it tries to tell us Americans.

1) This is visual literacy assignment. 2) I haven't really thought about visuals in the way I looked at them through this assignment it opened my mind up to things that I do not exactly appear to ones eye by one glance. 3) I will use this in my teaching by giving my students these visuals in class so they too can look at things with a different perspective.