1. OPTIC Strategy
Analyzing Visuals

2. Why Use OPTIC?

3. Why Use OPTIC?
-A text can be anything (speech, non-fiction piece, poem, advertisement, fiction piece, visual).
-Many students panic when they have to analyze a visual (i.e. your WOD on 3D Printing).
-OPTIC provides a clear strategy that explains how to look for what is important.

4. OPTIC Acronym

5. “Migrant Mother” by Dorthea Lange (1936)

6. OVERVIEW
-What is the visual about?
-What’s going on?
-Brief Summary

7. PARTS -Break apart the image and look at its individual parts
-What parts, elements, and
details are important? (Colors,
figures, groupings, patterns)

8. TITLE
-What information does
the title add?

9. INTERRELATIONSHIPS What connections can be made
between the title and the
parts of the visual?

10. CONCLUSION -Draw a conclusion about the
visual as a whole by stating its
theme or the argument it is
making.

11. WHY ALL THE PARTS ARE IMPORTANT
-Practice OPTIC
without the title
One other part
missing.

12. HOW DOES YOUR ANALYSIS CHANGE?
Title: “Bellamy
Salute”
Parts: What image
is added?

13. SMALL GROUP PRACTICE Title: “The Young Lady with the Shiner” by
Norman Rockwell