Please upload your presentation draft (as a Word doc) of your Visual Analysis to this assignment. Please also upload your image.
Brief Assignment Description:
For this assignment, you will adopt the role of an image analyst for a large media outlet. Your job is to write a 1000-1200 word memo in which you analyze one client’s visual message in order to answer the question: “How do the design features of this image challenge or complicate gender expectations?”
Effectively developing your analysis will require careful explanation of the meaningful connections that you identify between the visual’s design features and how they complicate or challenge gender expectations. Your memo needs to briefly but clearly describe the relevant design features, but, more importantly, explain how they challenge or complicate gender expectations. To help you make these connections and to develop your analysis, you must also use at least one outside source (from this textbook or from outside research). However, the source should be in support of your analysis of the image.
To demonstrate above average analytical skills and your critical engagement with course concepts, your memo should present ideas that are generally overlooked by the more casual viewer and should guide your audience to engaging with the visual in a new way. In other words, your analysis needs to move beyond the obvious.
Objectives
By the end of this assignment, you should be able to do the following:
• Analyze the ways the design features of a visual challenge or complicate gender expectations.
• Develop the connections between evidence (design features) and your analytical claims.
• Articulate the common portrayals of gender in American society.
• Use a source appropriately to support your claims.
• Use correct memo format.