12 Department of Education-Region III

TARLAC CITY SCHOOLS DIVISION

Juan Luna St., Sto. Cristo, Tarlac City 2300
Email address: tarlac.city@deped.gov.ph/ Tel. No. (045) 470 - 8180

MEDIA AND
INFORMATION LITERACY
Quarter 2: Week 4
Learning Activity Sheets
 Media and Information Literacy

Name of Learner:____________________________________ Date:____________

Section:___________________________________________ Q2W4

Understanding the Different Dimension of Media: Text and Visual

Background Information for Learners

The key to appreciate information technologies and communication processes is

reading. If you are not a good reader and do not use your critical thinking skills, then you
cannot enjoy the benefits of the information society. It does not mean just learning the ABC’s
but we must know how to decipher meanings embedded in media texts.

Framing and Reading

Framing means to construct, compose or imagine, meaning to create with a solid plan to
follow using a specific structure in mind. Form and content should be taken into consideration
and always together when we deconstruct and later construct media and media products.

Newspapers and Journalism

News is defined as “the communication of information on current events print, broadcast,

Internet or word of mouth to a third party or mass audience.” Newspapers all have sections
inside, mostly covering the general category of headlines (the most important news of the
day), opinion (columnist writing essays with specializations), entertainment (pop culture
happenings), lifestyle (Health, wellness and related topics), technology, business, sports, and
other special themed sections.
In order to create news, the structure of the 5Ws and 1H is always followed to present
facts. This involves presenting the details by answering the basic questions about the news
item (who, what, where, when, why, and how) presented in an inverted pyramid style.

who

what

where
when

why

how

This means narrating the most interesting facts at the beginning of the news item and
presenting the less interesting details as the story winds down. The most important facts
should be captured by the lead sentence. The lead is responsible for the readers to get
hooked to a story.

Journalism is defined as “the collecting, writing, editing and presenting of news in

newspapers, magazines, radio and television broadcast, or the internet” and concerns the
discipline as well as the business of news creation. A journalist main characteristic in creating
news story is objectivity.

2 types of newspaper

1. Dailies or broadsheets – The main or major newspapers printed in the long paper
format.
2. Tabloid – the smaller, easy to read and thinner format, usually not trusted, specially by
the upper class, since tabloids compete heavily by using sensationalism.

Books, Comics, Magazines and the Publishing Industry

Different kinds of books have their various formats or structures of relaying information to the
readers. Literature covers books that usually involve fictional or true-to-life stories of the
human condition like novels, novelettes, a collection or anthology of short stories, essays,
memories and the like. Trade books are the most expensive books usually printed on glossier
type of paper with hardbound covers.

The comics format is usually designed into panels, where the visual drawings are similar to
how you would see still scenes of movies or TV shows. Dialogues and descriptions are written
on dialogue balloons and panel lines.

Example of COMIC Strip

The magazine is also a format popular among adults and teens alike. Somewhat an
intersection of the newspaper, book and comics, a typical magazine contains printed stories
or essays, illustrations and photographs, and pages of advertising content.

Photography and Timeless Image Concepts

Photography, as originally defined, is the process of recording images through a chemical

interaction caused by light rays hitting a sensitized surfaced, referring to the celluloid film
known as the negative. In the age of digital photography, however, this process of recording
images happens when the image is captured or encoded as electronic signals, stored in the
camera system’s memory storage unit, and later decoded as digital computer image files.
Nowadays we used digital cameras such as the one’s we have on our smartphones to capture
images and this are stored in a memory card.

In Composing the shot, the following questions need to be determined:

• Where is the camera located? Is it near or far from the subject?
• Where is the Camera placed? Is it Higher or Lower than the subject?
• What is the main focus of the shot? What are the secondary elements of the shot?
• Worms View
• Birds View
• Eye Level View
• Framing
• Side View
• Rule of thirds

RULE OF THIRDS

• Lighting and focus are also important to notice when looking at a photograph.
Shadows and highlights could further determine the emotional focus sought by the
photographer while the play on image focus could also help enhance certain emotional
effects as well. This is evident in the use of shallow or deep depth of field as
exemplified in the popular blurring or shallow focus process called BOKEH style.

I. Learning Competency with code

Describe the different dimensions of: text information and media, visual information and
media, audio information and media, motion information and media, manipulative information
and media, multimedia information and media. MIL11/12IMILIIIa-13

II. Activities

Activity 1 – Identification

INSTRUCTION: Identify what is being describe. Write your answer on the blank line.
1. ________________________, as originally defined, is the process of recording
images through a chemical interaction caused by light rays hitting a sensitized surfaced,
referring to the celluloid film known as the negative.
2. ________________________ the main or major newspapers printed in the long paper
format.
3. ________________________ is defined as “the communication of information on current
events print, broadcast, Internet or word of mouth to a third party or mass audience.”
4. the use of shallow or deep depth of field as exemplified in the popular blurring or shallow
focus process called ________________________ style
5. ________________________ the smaller, easy to read and thinner format, usually not
trusted, specially by the upper class, since tabloids compete heavily by using sensationalism.
6. Literature covers books that usually involve fictional or true-to-life stories of the human
condition like novels, novelettes, a collection or anthology of short stories, essays, memories
and the like. 7. ________________________ is defined as “the collecting, writing, editing and
presenting of news in newspapers, magazines, radio and television broadcast, or the internet”
and concerns the discipline as well as the business of news creation.
8. ________________________ means to construct, compose or imagine, meaning to create
with a solid plan to follow using a specific structure in mind.
9. The ________________________ format is usually designed into panels, where the visual
drawings are similar to how you would see still scenes of movies or TV shows.
10. The ________________________ is also a format popular among adults and teens alike.
Somewhat an intersection of the newspaper, book and comics, a typical magazine contains
printed stories or essays, illustrations and photographs, and pages of advertising content.

Activity 2 – Remember the rules to be creative in photography

Direction: Write the composition rules of photography

1.______________________________________________
2.______________________________________________
3.______________________________________________
4.______________________________________________
5.______________________________________________
6.______________________________________________
7.______________________________________________
8.______________________________________________
9.______________________________________________
10.______________________________________________

Activity 3 – Daily News

Direction: Write a news following the 5Ws and 1H with the Topic “The Effects of COVID 19”
Note: Your output will be evaluated / graded based on the following rubrics.
Rubrics: Content = 5 Organization = 3 Grammar = 2

Activity 4 – Let’s Create

Direction: Using the Panel below create a comic strip with your own story and original
characters.
Note: Your output will be evaluated / graded based on the following rubrics.
Rubrics: Content = 5 Organization = 3 Grammar = 2

Activity 5 – I am a Photographer.

Direction: Using your smartphone camera and photo editing apps take a photograph in your
home following the rules in photography. Upload your content in our class Facebook
messenger group or write the link on the box below.

Note: Your output will be evaluated / graded based on the following rubrics.
Rubrics: Content = 5 Organization = 3 Grammar = 2
Activity 6 – Watch Me

Direction: Watch the link on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ujaCbzLwuB8 and

write a reflection about the video. (Title of the video: Learn Photography - Simple, Practical -
Free Photography Course 1/10)

III. Reflection:

A. What I’ve learned:

____________________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________

B. What I’ve enjoyed:

____________________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________

IV. References:

Books

Cantor, “Libay” Olivia Linsangan et.al., Media and Information Literacy: Vibal Group, Inc. 2016

Video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rv_odT_TgKs

Illustration

https://www.hiclipart.com

Answer Key:

Activity 1: What you know

1. Photography 3. News 6. Literature

2. Dailies or 4. Bokeh 7. Journalism
Broadsheet 5. Tabloid 8. Framing
 9. Comics 10. Magazine

Activity 2 – Remember the rules to be creative in photography

1. Where is the camera located? Is it near 4. Worms View

or far from the subject? 5. Birds View
2. Where is the Camera placed? Is it 6. Eye Level View
Higher or Lower than the subject? 7. Framing
3. What is the main focus of the shot? 8. Side View
What are the secondary elements of 9. Rule of thirds
the shot? 10. Lighting and Shadows

Activity 3 – Daily News

Activity 4 – Let’s Create

Activity 5 – I am a Photographer.

Activity 6: Watch Me

Prepared by:

GLEN JOHN Y. WONG

Teacher II
Central Azucarera De Tarlac High School