English / Year 4 / Language / Expressing and developing ideas

Curriculum content descriptions

Explore the effect of choices when framing an image, placement of elements in the image, and salience on composition of still and moving images in a range of types of texts (ACELA1496)

Elaborations
  • examining visual and multimodal texts, building a vocabulary to describe visual elements and techniques such as framing, composition and visual point of view and beginning to understand how these choices impact on viewer response
General capabilities
  • Literacy Literacy
  • Critical and creative thinking Critical and creative thinking
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