Visual+Activities

Meeting and Communicating

 * Lesson on Symbol – Write a list of abstract ideas, students must draw picture that represents each idea.
 * Lesson on Colour – Split the class up into groups of four. Through consensus discussion allocate each group member a colour and explain why they are that colour. Then do the describing the colour to a blind person poetic activity.
 * If your name was a font, what would the font be [|Fonts Conference]. Brainstorm your key words (if a word is really important to you put it in more than once) then create a personal wordle, using your font and colour.
 * Me box – Bring in an object that is really important to you and speak about and write about, then create the box to hold everything.
 * My life trailer/My Life Movie Poster
 * My Family Graphic Novel. Turn one of their memoirs or part of one of their memoir writing activities into a graphic novel.
 * Discussion point - Why are Police Uniforms never pink - to lead into colour symbolism.
 * Discuss the colour symbolism in fast food logos.
 * Comic strip - write or talk through captions.
 * Turn a text you have read into a comic strip / stage design / costume design - key events, character profile etc or personal information e.g. first day of school, key successful moment in life.
 * Playdoh - symbols that represent you or your family, design a family crest (could be a paper activity)
 * Computer suite - Draw my thing Facebook app (pictionary on line)
 * Poetry tasks - take own photos and drop into Movie Maker, add captions / poetic lines etc
 * Draw different facial features in close up to show emotions talk through how they showed the emotional changes - link to previous task.

Thinking Widely
Viewing and creating a range of visual texts to introduce the idea of authorial purpose, language features and how these shape form. __Static Image__
 * Newpaper Article / Layout
 * Film Posters
 * Comic Strips / Graphic Novels
 * Stage plans / sets
 * Costume Design
 * Websites
 * Photos / Postcards / Artworks
 * Graphic representations of music, sound, and written texts
 * CDs and album covers

__Moving Images__
 * Adverts
 * Films / Short films
 * Video Games
 * Promo Clips
 * Music Videos
 * Youtube
 * Dramas / Plays

Thinking Deeply
Analysing a visual text's authorial purpose, language features and form. Crafting a visual text that is suited to purpose using language features to shape form.

Connecting
Connecting understanding to assessment tasks. Connecting published work to audience and purpose.