Because so much of today's communications, including the news, comes to us visually, it is critical students learn the basics of visual communication. This activity introduces three fundamental elements of visual language. As students photograph each other with different lighting, from opposite camera angles and in varied compositions they begin to see how these techniques influence the various meanings we can take from a visual message.

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