This document provides guidance and activities for analyzing various aspects of visual or oral texts, including plot, characters, relationships, themes, and symbols. Students are instructed to view a film or other text and then complete activities such as creating flow charts, describing characters, analyzing how characters change, exploring relationships and their development, identifying themes and how they are shown, and examining how symbols are used and their significance. The document aims to help students analyze key elements of texts and demonstrate their understanding through evidence-based responses.

1. A S 2 .2
A NALYSE SPEC IF I ED ASPEC T ( S ) O F STUD I E D VISU A L O R
ORAL TEXT ( S ), SUPPORT ED BY EVIDE N C E
4 C RED IT S

2. P LOT
1. View the film.
2. Create a flow chart to show the progression of
the story.
 For each section, write a brief description from
the story.
 Include a picture to represent the section.

3. C HARACTER & F ILM
TECHNIQUES
Getting to know the characters
Character Visual/verbal feature What does the viewer
adjectives learn?

4. Getting to know the characters
Character Visual/verbal feature What does the viewer
adjectives learn?

5. C HARACTER & F ILM
TECHNIQUES
Getting to know the characters
Character Visual/verbal feature What does the viewer
adjectives learn?

6. C HARACTERS & C HALLENGES
 Any information about the characters is important to the
film.
 Characters develop and change during the novel as they
face challenges and conflict.
1. Choose 1 character and describe a challenge in their life.
2. Explain how they coped with it (aim for 3 ways).
3. List 6 visual/verbal techniques which support your ideas.
4. What do we learn about the type of person she/he is?
5. Explain what the director wants us to learn from this
character and how they dealt with their
challenges/conflict.

7. C OMPARE AND C ONTRAST
1. Create a Venn diagram to show the similarities and differences
between 2 characters.
2. Choose 1 similarity and one difference and discuss what may
have caused this similarity or difference.

8. CHANGE IN A CHARACTER
1. Identify and 1. Explain the
1. Describe the describe the outcome of this
character at the event or person change. What did
beginning of the that influenced a the character learn
film. change in the from this?
2. Include character. 2. What does the
visual/verbal 2. Explain how the director want us as
features to support character viewers to learn
your description. changed. from this change?
3. Include 3. Include
visual/verbal visual/verbal
features. features.

9. R ELATIONSHIP DEVELOPMENT
1. Identify and
describe the 1. Describe the
changes in this relationship at the
1. Identify an important relationship. Does end of the film. Are
relationship in the film. the balance of the characters
2. Describe this relationship power change? Is friends? Why/why
– are they friends, there a conflict? not?
related, enemies? Does one person 2. Explain what the
3. Identify any visual/verbal help the other in director want us as
features that support some way? viewers to learn from
your description. 2. What is the this relationship.
outcome? 3. Can this be linked to
3. Include visual/verbal human nature or the
features. world in general?
4. Include visual/verbal
techniques.

10. E SSAY TOPICS
Choose ONE of the following questions and write at
least 300 words.
1. Analyse how the beginning AND ending of a
text show an important change in a character or
individual in a text you have studied.
2. Analyse how a character or individual is
influenced to make decisions in a text you have
studied.
3. Analyse how the growth of a relationship
affects the climax in a text you have studied.

11. S ETTING
 Setting may include reference to time, place, historical
or social context, or atmosphere.
1. Identify the 3 main settings in the text.
2. Choose 1 and create a brainstorm of adjectives to
describe it.
3. Locate 3 visual/verbal features from the film that link to
3 of your adjectives.

12. S ETTING & E FFECT
1. Explain the effect that the setting has on the life
of the protagonist.
2. Imagine how the setting would affect you. Write
a paragraph to describe how you would react to
the setting.
3. Explain what you think the author wants us to
learn about the protagonist by placing him/her in
this setting.

13. ATMOSPHERE
1. Describe the atmosphere in the text.
2. List 3 ways that the atmosphere is established – think
about lighting, sound and colour.
3. Explain why the director included the atmosphere.
How does it help the viewer to understand the text?

14. T HEMES
 A theme is a broad idea, message, or moral of a story.
The message may be about life, society, or human
nature. Themes often explore timeless and universal
ideas and are almost always implied rather than stated
explicitly.
1. Brainstorm a list of possible themes.
2. For each theme, describe the relevant section of the film
where the theme is shown.

15. T HEME AND MEANING
1. Choose one theme and discuss the meaning of your
theme. What does it mean exactly?
2. Explain how this theme may be seen in today’s world.
3. What does the director want us to understand about
this theme?
4. Identify any social issues that may be related to this
theme. For example, health issues; power and
violence related issues.

16. T HEME & CHARACTERS
1. Choose 2 themes and list the characters that are
linked to each theme.
2. Explain why you linked each character to the
theme.
3. Include a visual/verbal feature for each.
4. Explain what you think the author wants us to
learn about these characters by using this theme.

17. T HEME IN ACTION
1. Choose a part of the text that shows one of the
themes in action and create a short cartoon to show
what happens.
 Include dialogue from the text.
1. Create a collage of quotes from the film that are
linked to the themes.
 Split your poster into sections, each section will be for
each theme. Place the quotes in the relevant section.
 Use lettering/words from magazines and coloured
paper.

18. S YMBOLS
 A symbol is a person, place, or thing comes to
represent an abstract idea or concept -- it is anything
that stands for something beyond itself.
1. Identify 3-4 symbols from the text.
2. Choose 3 and explain what its significance is, where it
is seen in the text and which theme and character it is
linked to.
3. Explain why the director included each symbol. What
does he/she want the viewer to learn or think about?

19. E SSAY TOPICS
1. Analyse how symbols are used to develop an
idea in the text you have studied.
2. Analyse how successful a text you have studied
has been in influencing you to think differently
about an issue.
3. Analyse how important techniques are used to
engage our emotions in a text you have studied.
4. Analyse how atmosphere is established and
maintained in a text you have studied.

20. A SSESSMENT SCHEDULE
Achievement
 Analyse specified aspect(s) of studied written text(s),
supported by evidence.
Achievement with Merit
 Analyse specified aspect(s) of studied written text(s)
convincingly, supported by evidence.
Achievement with Excellence
 Analyse specified aspect(s) of studied written text(s)
perceptively, supported by evidence.