Assessment arts 2094
For your 1500-word essay (+ or - 10% ONLY), you are required to formulate, and respond to, your own “question”, which enables an in-depth and insightful exploration, analysis and interpretation / argumentation of your chosen multimodal texts from a social-semiotic, metafunctional perspective.
You must examine your texts in terms of the three metafunctional meanings: interpersonal, compositional, and representational (na
ative).
For example:
How has the text maker construed the "refugee crisis".
Analysing shop fronts in the Queen Victoria Building: a social semiotic, metafunctional exploration into how a hierarchy has been established and how this hierarchy has been dissolved.
A comparative analysis of the covers of Women's Day and New Ideas: a social semiotic, metafunctional perspective
An analysis of poverty advertisements deploying children.
How have the characters in the digital world of the computer game "Mindcraft" been construed: a social semiotic, metafunctional perspective.
An exploration into the ways in which gender and importance has been construed in children's picture books
TEXTS TO CHOOSE FROM
•2D advertisements
•3D advertisements
•children’s picture books
•text books
•magazines (pages or cover)
•art installations (+ label)
•PowerPoint presentations
•posters
•film sequence
•book covers
•websites
•illustrated essays
•labels on products
•newspapers (online news, print media)
•television shots (news, etc.)
Format:
· Double space your work
· Provide a 2.5 cm margin
· Use an appropriate font
· Select 12-point font size
· Place the figures (images) as close as possible to the first reference to the figure in the body of your essay (unless there is a reason not to)
· Direct your reader to the figure - i.e. (see Figure 1); In Figure 1, …; as seen in Figure 1.
· Provide a caption under your figure. If you are using tables, write the caption above the table.
· Annotate (draw on your image with a
ows or write words) if necessary to ensure the reader knows what you are refe
ing to.
· Ensure you have the appropriate in-text citations
· Provide a full reference list for the in-text citations in alphabetical orde
· Provide a list of images and references
Notes: Use two magazine cover to point out the differences and how that company uses metafunctional meanings: interpersonal, compositional, and representational (na
ative).
Use 3 covers from two of the magazine companies to point out similiarities and make the point