MGTI 40640 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: 2D Computer Graphics
New Media Midterm 1 Study Guide
• What Qualifies as an Effective Visual?
o Effective visual =
▪ 1. Concentration
• concentrate on presenting exactly what you want your audience
to know
▪ 2. Clarity
• visuals should be perfectly clear from back of room
▪ 3. Consistency →
• consistent style
• tone should support overall theme
o font
o case
o bullet point length
o image style
▪ 4. Correctness
• nothing destroys credibility
• avoid spelling errors and grammatical issues
• no misleading data
▪ 5. Control
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New media midterm 1 study guide: what qualifies as an effective visual, effective visual , 1. Concentration: concentrate on presenting exactly what you want your audience to know, 2. Clarity: visuals should be perfectly clear from back of room, 3. Consistency : consistent style tone should support overall theme font, case, bullet point length image style, 4. Correctness: nothing destroys credibility, avoid spelling errors and grammatical issues, no misleading data, 5. Control: control outflow of information and what the audience sees at a particular time, process for creating visuals: conor rarely visits tom. Ppt: instructions for how to do it in excel. Area graphs: except when need to visualize numbers of vastly different magnitudes, avoid because human eyes do not do a great job of attributing quantitative value to 2d space, which can render area graphs harder to read, 2. Tables: as your audience reads a table, you lose their ears and attention to make your point verbally, 3.
