Practice Exam / Refugees

Q1: What is the most salient feature in this image?

A: The door is the most salient feature on the image because you can see the light coming
from the outside world. Light is also visible from the door.

Q2: What feature acts as the vector in this image?

A: The vector in the image will be starting from the boat since it stands out with its colours
(aesthetics) then you will draw a line from the boat towards the people and finally towards
the man / wall.

Q3: What angle is being used in this image?

A: The angle was a high camera shot and a Birdseye view angle it was a high shot.

Q4: What message is the illustrator communicating to his audience.

A: The illustrator is communicating the message that refugees are being led to asylum and
detention centres and the government is not doing anything about it. It also shows in the
image there is a door leading outside where the refuges are heading towards a brick wall
which looks like prison or a place you would not want to be.

Q5: Identify and explain three visual literacy techniques the composer uses to tell his story?

A: The composer uses vector, Gaze offer, reading path and salience as three visual literacy
techniques.
Reading Path: He uses vector to show where readers would look at the image from and
make their way through the image.
Modality: The image is showing HIGH modality since it is looking realistic except the drawing
on the wall but it is showing high modality.
Salience: The composer is showing salience by making the most salient object in the image
popping and appealing so it catches readers eyes.
Colour, lighting and vectors. Colour is used as a metaphor for the freedom refugees hope for
represented by the door on the left. Lighting is also used to convey this hope through the
door on the left this is juxtaposed with the door on the right. The door on the right is two
dimensional, colourless and there is no light shining. The landscape drawn on the door on
the right is a metaphor for false hope. In this image, all the doors point to the vectors of
false hope. Considering all the vectors are pointing to the door of false hope, it is clear that
the destiny of these refugees are hopeless
See:
I can see a door, I can see a boat, I can see brick wall, I can see a man in a police costume, I
can see refugees, I can see golden water and I can see outside. I can also finally see a dull
room where you might lock people up in.

Think:
I think they are keeping refugees inside this room where they are also taunt the refugees by
the outside world, I think they will not let the refugees stay in the country they most likely
send them back to their home country.

Wonder:
I wonder what they have done with the refugees and where did they take them, I wonder if
they are in a safe place, I wonder if they have food to eat, I wonder If they would ever get
freed from being held a captive or held. I wonder if the boat they came in was durable in
their journey to the country they are now.