Lesson
2 Analyzing Pictures
What’s In
Directions: Look at the picture below. Complete the following table by
describing and analyzing the picture in terms of age and
gender, race and nationality, and attitude and behavior.
Characters Age and Gender Race and Attitude and
Nationality Behavior
What’s New
Look at the picture below. Then answer the following questions.
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Directions: Answer the questions based on the image that you have seen.
Write your answer on a separate sheet of paper.
1. What is the picture all about?
2. What can you say about the characters in the picture?
3. How old do you think are they?
4. What can you say about their attitude towards their work?
5. Where can you usually see this scene? urban or rural?
What is It
Before you can analyze characters and setting, let us first learn
the meaning of print, non-print, and digital materials. There are
different materials or resources where we can get information. These
are print, non-print, and digital materials.
Print materials refer to any publication, document, or record
including, but not limited to, the following: newspapers,
magazines, books, photographs, drawings, maps, almanac,
dictionary, atlas, encyclopedia, yearbook, magazine, etc.
Non-print materials refer to formats with special
characteristics whose information content can only be accessed
through the use of machines / digital equipment such as e-
book, e-journals, electronic images, audio-visual materials, tape
recording, etc.
Digital Materials refer to electronic records and other content
(MS Office files, PDFs, image, audio, or video files, etc.) that
were originally created and/or stored in a digital environment
(such as web servers, desktop computers, digital cameras,
digital video recorders, etc.)
Basically, characters and setting can be analyzed in print, non-
print, and digital materials. Characters used in print, non-print, and
digital materials can be analysed.
Characters used in print, non-print, and digital materials can
be analyzed in terms of:
o age and gender
o race and nationality
o attitude and behavior
On the other hand, setting used in print, non-print, and digital
materials can be analyzed in terms of:
o urban or rural
o affluent or poor
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What’s More
Analyze the pictures by answering the following questions. Write A or B that
best describes the image.
A B
_____ 1. Which of the pictures has an urban setting?
_____ 2. Which of the pictures has a rural setting?
_____ 3. Which of the pictures can be described as affluent?
_____ 4. Which of the pictures can be described as poor?
_____ 5. Which of the pictures show younger age group?
What I Have Learned
Picture analysis is the extraction of meaningful information from
images by means of processing techniques. Analysis of characters can be
done in terms of age and gender, race and nationality and attitude and
behavior. Setting can be analyzed in terms of urban and rural and affluent
or poor.
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