- Hi, my name is Jordan, lower down.
- Kia ora, I'm Kiya.
- Welcome to Level 1 Visual Text
- If you haven't already checked out our strategy videos
for the written text, we recommend you do that,
as a lot of our stylistic and structural exam tips
on how to write an essay are the same across both standards.
In this video we'll be going more into depth about how
to analyze a visual text or a film.
- Yeah so visual text is fundament
about taking an idea from a visual text
and linking everything together to support it.
But it's really important that what your text is about,
is not the plot.
It's the deeper ideas you can extract from it,
using aspects of visual text.
- These aspects could include the director's purpose,
intended audience, the characters, the setting,
the narrative structure or language features of your text.
- Language features of visual text,
cover the same writing techniques as written text,
like metaphors and symbolism,
but also camera-specific features, like cinematography
or mise-en-scene.
You need to include the camera specific ones
in order to get excellence in visual text.
And why is it called language features?
I don't know, something to do with,
like how a film is a language, but I don't get it either.
- On top of mise-en-scene and cinematography,
other language features could include the editing,
the design, the sound and the performance of the actors.
- In order to get excellence,
you need to show that your understanding
of all of this is perceptive.
So let's get into how to do that.
So just like in written text,
Level 1 Visual Text questions are split into two parts,
describe and explain.
And explain means to link in with our perceptive idea
or our idea about society, the human condition
or wider literature.
We want to see you show appreciation for all of this
and link it with our thesis.
If you want more on how to do that,
please check out our written text form.
- To explain how and why our understanding is excellent,
we need to bring in the aspects and link them
with the director's purpose.
To do this we need to explain our aspects,
including the film text techniques
and how they impacted our audience.
And we bring this with why the director wanted it
to impact our audience.
For example, in the movie Schindler's List,
the juxtaposition between the girl's red coat,
compared with the rest of the black and white in the film,
showed us that Spielberg wanted to create hope
for the future generations
by having that red stand-out color.
- So this is very closely linked in with appreciation
of the text, in saying that the aspect, which is the color,
had a really strong effect on the audience
and this is shown in the director's purpose.
Which is saying to bring in,
the director-audience relationship.
And so appreciation means, showing the market
that we understand the importance of the text's ideas
and the director's purpose and it is conveyed
in the relationship between the director and the audience.
Remember, everything in a film is deliberate.
So if you think the author intended something,
even if it's as small as the color of a vase,
and then that aspect made you feel with some sort of way,
then you should be putting that in,
because you are probably right.
- Now let's talk about the main difference
between written and visual text.
In the visual text we have visual language features,
otherwise known as film techniques.
We can split aspects of visual texts into two parts.
The first is ideas and purpose.
The next is visual text language features.
- Ideas and purposes include all this stuff
we've talked about before, like intended audiences,
author's purpose, themes, setting, characters.
However, it's really important to know
that because you're studying film,
you need to be analyzing
the film's specific language features.
These include things that we listed in the introductions.
Let's take a closer look at what they actually are.
- Cinematography includes things like, zooms, camera angles,
color and a whole lot more.
Cinematography is pretty much everything that a camera does.
For example, in a horror movie,
they tend to use things like, quick cuts or shaky cameras
and this builds adrenaline in us as the audience.
If they use that in a movie like Shrek, it'd be weird.
- Mise-en-scene is pretty much everything
that is visible in a shot.
It's a fancy French name for how
and why the director put everything the way it is.
So does the vase in American Beauty convey a false sense
of homeliness?
Who knows, but just write about it.
It's very closely linked in with design,
which is the world of the text.
- Sound is a huge one,
this could include things like, ambience.
For example, a favorite for creepy scenes is footsteps
in a big empty space or phones ringing
in a stressful office environment
that a character doesn't want to be in.
It can also include things like, sound effects or music.
We all know that horror movies would be about 82% less scary
without the music that is in them.
- It is crucial that we don't just chuck in
a random camera angle and just hope
that the marker froths it.
If you say that this is showing the mid-shot,
you need to explain how
and why the director used the mid-shot
for that particular purpose.
Which should be to help the director-audience relationship
in some way.
So does it allow us to see the emotion
of two people at once, you know, something like that.
Last thing is that upside-down triangle structure
and TEXAS are still the ideal ways of writing the essay.
If you want more on that, check out the written text form.
- The most important thing to remember in visual text is
to show the marker that you have an understanding
of the aspects of the text
at a deeper more perceptive level.
- This means bringing perceptive ideas related to society,
the human condition, or wider literature
and proving them using how and why.
It's so important that you show,
that if you break down the question
and create a thesis around it and prove it
throughout the whole incident.
- For visual text especially,
you've got to bring in film techniques
and always link it back to the director's purpose.
This is important so that you can explain
that there's a director-audience relationship going on.
- And the best way of practicing, read exemplars
and do past exams.
And also check out the studytime level one,
English walk-through guide available now,
that will cover everything you needed to know
to get excellence in number one English.
It's supposed to go up, uh, one day shipping.
Uh, who wrote it Kiya?
- Me?
- Yeah, I wrote it.
- Yeah yeah - I wrote it.
- Me. - That's good (laughs)
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