Lesson Plan

Year Level: 7
Date/Time: 28.08.14
Learning Area/ACARA focus: English
Lesson Focus: Visual Literacy Image Analysis
Class Size: 6
Duration of Lesson: 20 minutes


Background information:
- Students have already been analysing images based on SWAT analysis (
except for A audio codes)

Teaching/Learning Purpose(s) (written in terms of outcomes):
Curriculum: English

Identify and explore ideas and viewpoints about events, issues and characters
represented in texts drawn from different historical, social and cultural
contexts (ACELT1619)
- Be able to complete 2 pictures using SWAT analysis( except for A audio
codes)
- Identify aspects of SWAT ( Symbolic, written, and technical codes)

Preparation:
- Print out 1 image for the students to complete, using the SWAT analysis(
except for A audio codes)

Learning Experiences:
1. How will I engage the learners?
- Interact with the students, ask them questions and allow them to frequently
respond.
- Use Images that the kids are familiar with
- Use visual stimuli for increasing novelty in the learning task
- Use students to teach other students.

2. Student tasks and activities (What will the students do to achieve the lesson
purpose(s)?)
- Complete 1 image all together on SWAT analysis
- Have an Example for them to understand what they will need to write for their
assessment

3. Conclusion (How do you summarise the learning and relate it to the lesson
purpose(s)?)
- I can evaluate by viewing their images and their analysis of them.
- You will be able to judge whether they understand by the answers to the
questions you have asked.

4. Assessment and evaluation: (How do you know the students have achieved
the learning purpose(s)? Evaluate your own performance.)
- I can evaluate by marking their images and checking their answers to see if
they understand.
- I can evaluate myself by observing their actions and writing a reflection on
how they approached the activities.























Codes and conventions in film help us to get the message that the director is
passing onto us.
Symbolic Codes: The secondary meaning represented by particular objects or symbols in the
film. We can find symbolism in objects (such as a cross symbolising Christianity), setting (beach
symbolising reflection, contemplation), costumes (designer suit symbolising someone who is very
well off, important), colours (black symbolises evil, white symbolises peace and purity) and many
more.

The symbolic meaning of elements of the film helps to add a deeper layer of meaning to the film
as a whole. Symbolism often allows the film to comment on the world as a whole, rather than
just the small world of the film.

Written Codes: Any text that appears on the screen, either as a part of the film itself (product
names, signs, newspapers) or through credits, subtitles etc.

Written codes can often communicate specific information more easily than visuals. For
example, if it is very important that the viewer know the exact setting of the film, the name of
the town or country will flash on the screen as a subtitle when we first cut to that setting. This
setting may have some symbolic significance, so the written code ensures we know where it is.

Audio Codes: Any sound that we hear throughout the film, such as dialogue, music, sound
effects, laugh tracks or applause.

Dialogue assists in character and development, while music helps to set the mood of a scene.
Sound effects are used to make the film seem real (our world is never silent, there is always
background noise) or to add to the emotion of a scene (for example, a creaking door in a horror
film adds to the suspense.)

Technical Codes: Techniques used in the construction of the image. For example: camera shots,
camera angles, camera movement, lighting, special effects.

Technical codes are used because of deliberate choices by the film producers to construct
scenes in a particular way. For example, in order to convey the person in position of power in a
scene, he will film with different angles on characters to show who is in control and who is
weaker or submissive. This assists in the characterisation and plot of the film.





In this picture we can identify the following symbols and some possible connotations.
Type of symbol Symbol Possible connotations
colours blue shadows
white clothes
white eyes
mysterious, unreal
clean, sterile
creepy, inhuman,
eyeless
objects test tube
glasses
science,
experimentation
learning, intelligence
body language straight lips
hand clasped firmly
humourless, serious
determination,
intensity
clothing white, collarless shirt scientist, doctor