This document discusses visual media and its use in social programs documentation. It defines visual media as sources of data or information in visual forms like photos, videos, illustrations, or digital images. Visual media requires interpretation and reliability may vary. Common forms of non-projected visual media include cartoons, charts, comic strips, flash cards, illustrations, maps, models, pictures, and posters. Projected visual media uses light and lenses to project films, overhead projector slides, and presentations. The document also defines documentation as information provided on various media to explain things, and social programs as government assistance systems that help needy individuals and families.

1. Visual Media
Photo andVideo documentation in
Social Programme
Solomon Jenifer Raj (15PSW04)
Final year MSW
St. Xavier’s College
Palayamkottai

2. What isVisual
Media?

3. What is
Visual
Media?
Sources of data or information in
the form of visual representations.
Abstractions, analogues, rough
illustrations, or digital
reproductions of the objects the
data pertains to.

4. What is
Visual
Media?
Requires interpretation of the
data gatherer
Level of reliability compared
to other sources may vary
considerably

5. What is
Visual
Media?
May be hosted on the
internet, printed in
publications, displayed
through broadcast media, or
otherwise disseminated.

6. Elements ofVisual
Design

7. Line
Source: http://www.freeimages.co.uk/galleries/backdrops/fractal/slides/fractal_lines_inblue_2.htm

8. Line
 A mark on a surface that describes a shape of
outline
 Can create texture and can be thick or thin
 Types of line include actual, implied, vertical,
horizontal, diagonal and contour lines.

9. Colour
Source: http://4images.in/2013/12/colors/

10. Texture
Source: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Brick_texture_-_Saint-Omer_(Pas-de-
Calais)_-_01.JPG

11. Texture
 Surface quality, either tactile of visual
 Degree of roughness or smoothness in objects
 Can be real or implied by different uses of media

12. Shape
Source: http://blog.lynda.com/2012/08/21/dekes-techniques-creating-tile-
patterns-in-illustrator/

13. Shape
 2-dimensional, no thickness
 Can be grouped to geometric and organic

14. Form
Source:
http://swordandfern.blogspot.com/2009_11_01_archive.html

15. Form
 3-dimensional; has volume and thickness
 Illusion of 3D effect can be implied using light and
shading techniques
 Can be viewed from many angles

16. Value
Source: http://revolutionflame.com/2012/08/read/

17. Value
 Degree of light and dark in a design
 Can be used with color as well as black and white
 Contrast is the extreme changes between values

18. Size
Source:
http://www.illusionspoint.com/illusions/relative-sizes-optical-illusions/

19. Types ofVisual
Media

20. Non –
Projected
Visual Media
Requires no projection material or
electric power

21. Cartoon

22. Cartoon
http://zamoracartoons.blogspot.com/2013/12/editorial-cartoons-on-partisan-politics.h

23. Chart

24. Chart
http://www.issue03.com/?p=121

25. Comic Strip

26. Comic Strip
http://www.fanpop.com/clubs/cyanide-and-happiness/images/12986936/title/new-comics-photo

27. Flash Cards

28. Flash Cards
http://www.mrprintables.com/printable-flash-cards.html

29. Illustration

30. Illustration
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Mon

31. Illustration
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Landscape_with_the_Fall_of_Icarus

32. Map

33. Map
http://ancientpotteryphotos.blogspot.com/2013/08/ancient-map-of-mesopotamia.html

34. Map
http://www.pinoyexchange.com/forums/showthread.php?t=391602

35. Models

36. Models
http://www.howardmodels.com/architectural-models-07/Beach-Villas/

37. Models
http://www.life123.com/hobbies/scale-models-and-model-making/science-models/how-to-
make-a-dna-model.shtml

38. Pictures

39. Pictures
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afghan
_Girl

40. Pictures
http://deeplythinking.wordpress.com/2011/06/02/vulture-and-starving-child/

41. Poster

42. Cartoon
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Unclesamwantyou.jpg

43. Projected
Visual Media
Uses bright light to pass
through a transparent
picture, by means of a lens,
or electronic power

44. Film Strip

45. Film Strip
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Film_R
egistry

46. Overhead
Projector (OHP)

47. Ovehead
Projector
http://www.icanteachmychild.com/2012/09/overhead-projector-
learning/

48. Presentations

49. Presentation
s
http://freedesktopwallpapersite.com/7-Lessons-From-the-World%5C's-Most-Captivating-
Presenters-

50. Photo andVideo
Documentation in
Social Programme

51. Documentatio
n
Documentation is a set
of documents provided on paper,
or online, or on digital or analog
media, such as audio tape or CDs.
Examples are user guides, white
papers, on-line help, quick-
reference guides. It is becoming
less common to see paper (hard-
copy) documentation.

52. Social
Programme
A social welfare system is
a program that provides
assistance to needy individuals and
families. The types and amount of
welfare available to individuals and
families vary for country, state or
region.

54. THANK YOU