DISTINCTIVELY VISUAL

Definitions:

• What does distinctive mean?

• What does visual mean?

 

What is distinctively visual?

• In their responding and composing students explore the ways the images we see and/or visualise in texts are created. Students consider how the forms and language of different texts create these images, affect interpretation and shape meaning. Students examine one prescribed text, in addition to other texts providing examples of the distinctively visual (New HSC Online).

 

• The distinctive quality of the visual lies in its capacity to elicit a powerful response.   Distinctively visual texts have the power to provoke reactions from responders. Typically powerful visuals: fascinate, sadden, anger or inspire audiences.  Responders of distinctively visual texts sometimes react differently to the same images or imagery.  Distinctive visuals sometimes provoke us to question embedded notions of normalcy or challenge us to think in new ways.Writers such as novelists and poets often rely on language to evoke distinctive visuals in order to develop: plot, themes and characters.Composers rely on language or visual techniques or a combination of the two to create images.Whether a distinctive visual is perceived as negative or positive is sometimes shaped by the life experiences of the responder (areaofstudy.com)