Visual text uses a combination of visual features (camera shots, still pictures, and graphics) and verbal features (words, dialogue and language features) to get a message across to the audience. Your teacher will select either part of a class text that you have not studied closely or another visual text (complete or extract) such as: film, television production, music video, drama production, multimedia text, graphic novel, documentary.
To read a visual text you must view the text multiple times. Work out the main idea and how the visual and verbal features of the text such as: structure, layout, language features work together. Think about the purpose of the text and how these techniques help to communicate a message to the audience.
