visual media
Images and video
Visual media are forms of communication that convey information primarily through images rather than text or sound: photographs, films, television, paintings, graphic design.
The term often appears in discussions of how people consume information: Visual media dominates modern advertising.
Compare to print media or audio media.
The singular medium is sometimes used, but visual media typically appears as a collective noun.
- graphic designArranging images and text
- digital artComputer-generated visual work
- animationTechnique creating movement illusion
- motion graphicsAnimated visual design elements
- cameraImage capturing device
advertising · content creation · illustration · film · big screen · comics · color theory · composition · photography · stock photos · video production · color grading · representation · minimalism · abstraction · eye candy · television · realism
- Image Archivesimage archives, photo archives, archival photos, picture libraries, stock photos
- communicationtelephone, conversation, inform, hand signal, messages
- photo termssharp, blurry, JPEG, bright, dark
- deaf accesssign language, ASL, closed captions, captions, captioning
- media catalogingcatalog numbers, film classification, cross-references
visual mediaaudio
Transmitted sound content
radio · podcasts · audiobooks · spoken word · music
visual mediatext
Written or printed words
print media · literature · prose · written word · written language