Lecture Two - Visual Literacy

Going into this lecture I had NO IDEA what 'Visual Literacy' was, never mind hearing those two words used together to describe anything. However, moving on in the lecture I realised that I did, in fact, know what visual literacy was I just didn't how to refer to it. I actually was quite interested to learn about the different types of visual communication (e.g. syntax, semantics, semiotics, visual synecdoche, metonym and metaphor) but, as we are only into the first few weeks of the course, I'm not sure what I should be doing with this information other than it will effect the way I think about my work and how I present it in relation to my idea. The lecture gave me an insight into the cultural understanding of certain symbols and signs and how to make them globally understood and how presenting them in different ways can lead to them being interpreted in different ways.