MTN and My Visual Critique

The MTN presentations have really helped me see how in depth you have to go to fully analyze a visual work, whether it be a PSA, segment of a movie or just plain TV. They showed me how certain angles can add strength or magnitude to a shot, such as a close up on a crying parent or a medium shot of someone smashing up a room. I also learned kind of how to show your location using the long shot to establish your location. Also that using a good amount of variation and shots to get across one thing or action is good. For my visual assessment i plan on using a PSA i recently saw on TV about teens needing to buckle up. I think media literacy is important so we can interpret the flurry of visual information better, because today there is so much on television that can confuse and become misinterpreted. It might also help us tell the lies and false information sometimes pushed upon people from the things people really ought to know and be aware of.