Visual+Text+Questions


 * Visual text Questions**


 * Choose ONE topic.Write an essay of AT LEAST 300 words for your answer.Make sure you answer the topic fully.Support your discussion with specific evidence from the text.**
 * VISUAL TEXT TOPICS**
 * You can use one of these topics to write about a film, a television programme or music video, a drama production, an electronic text or interactive electronic game, or a graphic novel.**

1. In visual texts, characters are developed through aspects such as set, props, positioning and movement of actors, costume / make-up, framing, lighting, camera techniques, and sound. Analyse how a character is developed in a visual text you have studied. 2. In visual texts, editing decisions about aspects such as camera shots and techniques, sequencing, and sound are significant both within scenes and at the points where scenes change. Analyse how editing decisions and techniques create impact in a visual text you have studied. 3. The beginning and ending scenes of a visual text are significant to the development of ideas in the text as a whole. Analyse how the beginning and ending scenes work together to develop one or more ideas in a visual text you have studied. 4. The structure of a visual text is often arranged for effect. Analyse how the story is arranged in a visual text you have studied, and explore how this creates impact.
 * 2009**

5. Visual texts often use the conventions of genre to amuse the audience, create a mood, or develop an idea. Analyse how the director of a visual text you have studied uses the conventions of one or more genres to create particular effects. 6. In visual texts, mood can be created through aspects such as colour, shading, lighting, line, proportion, shape, costume, symbols, genre, camera techniques, and soundtrack. Analyse how mood is created in a visual text you have studied.


 * 2008**

TOPICS (Choose ONE) 1. Analyse how techniques were used to create a strong impression of at least ONE character or individual. 2. Analyse how the presentation of at least ONE setting helped develop an important theme. 3. Analyse how BOTH internal and external conflict were important to the text as a whole. Note: “internal conflict” means conflict within a character, and “external conflict” means conflict between a character and other individual(s) or group(s). 4. Analyse how techniques were used to create impact in ONE important section. 5. Analyse how the text influenced the audience to think differently about an idea or issue. 6. Analyse how the text is typical of its genre. Note: “genre” might include science fiction, romance, drama, documentary, political speech, etc.