Visual Techniques
Billy Elliot
Henry Lawson
Robert Gray
Text Types
100
What is salience?
salience is the quality of something standing out from its surroundings
100
Who directed Billy Elliot?
Stephen Daldry
100
Who is Henry Lawson?
An Australian short story writer who focused on the realities of life in colonial Australia.
100
Who is Robert Gray?
An Australian imagist poet.
100
What are the four text types we study in Mod C?
Reflective, Creative, Discursive and Persuasive
200
What is colour symbolism? Give an example.
the use of colour to represent an emotion or other idea
i.e red can represent passion
200
What is the shot type of the following and what does it teach us about Billy?
Two Shot
Shows he is caring towards his grandmother/not traditionally masculine qualities
200
What are the techniques in the following line, "As a girl she built the usual castles in the air; but all her girlish hopes and aspirations have long been dead".
Metaphor
Personification
200
Define the word 'interplay'.
the effect/influence that two or more things have on each other
200
What must you discuss if you write a reflection? List two requirements.
Connection to stimulus in your Part A response
Justification of writing choices
Implementation of chosen text type structure
Influence of texts studied in Mod C
300
What is Juxtaposition?
The placement of two or more contrasting ideas, characters, actions, settings, phrases or words side-by-side for a particular purpose.
300
Quote one line from the film.
Who says it? What is a technique in the quote?
i.e ""Lads do football... or boxing... or wrestling. Not friggin' ballet." said by Jackie. Technique is listing or colloquial language.
300
List at least 4 themes across Henry Lawson's writing
Mateship
Isolation
Gender Expectations
Unforgiving Landscape
Class division
Importance of storytelling
300
What are the techniques in the following line, "Next thing, I wake-up in a swaying bunk".
In Media-Res
and/or
Kinesthetic imagery
300
What is the text type of 'Dear Mrs Dunkley'? Describe the tone shift throughout.
Discursive
An overall reflective tone on her childhood teacher, with an initial critical approach that slowly evolved into appreciation/understanding.
400
Look at the following Artwork:
List three visual techniques 
Demand Gaze -
Salience of eyes
Vector lines of hands pointing to the eyes
Vivid explosion of colour
400
What are three techniques in the screenshot and how does it link to one key idea from the film?
Mid shot, contrasting costumes, colour symbolism (boy=blue), Offer (indirect gaze)
Link to gender expectations
400
The five ways language can be used to ______ prevailing assumptions and beliefs about individuals and cultural groups.
Hint: The Acronym related to a famous singer
Challenge
Affirm
Reveal
Disrupt
Ignore
400
List three thematic concerns Gray explores
Beauty of Nature
Nature Vs Industrialisation
Sublime in the ordinary
Spirituality/restoration of nature
Degradation of the human spirit
400
What is the text type and speaker for 'The Redfern Speech'? What is the event he is speaking at?
Persuasive, Paul Keating, the International Year for the World's Indigenous People (1993)
500
How has the following image represented an idea about the individual or colloective experience?
You must mention 2 visual techniques and their impact.
Possible response:
Connection to nature or culture or self or duality of self
Use of positioning - mountains/flowers/
Multiple faces
Colour juxtaposition - red vs blue of the background
Mirroring the moon and sun
Vector lines
500
List all 6 focus/thematic ideas we analysed in the film
Power of Performance
Adversity
Family
Gender Expectations
Conformity
Individuality
500
Name all the short stories we study in this unit.
The Drover’s Wife
The Union Buries Its Dead
Shooting the Moon
Our Pipes
The Loaded Dog
500
Name all of Gray's poems we study in this unit.
Journey, the North Coast
Flames and Dangling Wire
Harbour Dusk
Byron Bay: Winter
Description of a Walk
24 Poems
500
What is the name of the short story by Ray Bradbury?Identify and give a definition for the genre of the story.
'The Pedestrian'
Dystopian: a genre of speculative literature that depicts a flawed, oppressive society characterized by dehumanization, terror, and the loss of individual freedom