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Assessment focus: ability of students to use both knowledge acquired from the text and their own backgrounds. This task assesses student ability to critically engage with media texts.

Students look at a cartoon and make interpretations in looking at visual features.

Students study a brochure and identify the visual features that link to its purpose.

This assessment takes the context of the New Zealand flag and has questions that focus on presenting, layout, symbols, and visual cues.

Students study two graphs on some rocks and lake features of Saharan North Africa and answer a mix of questions to show this ability to interpret these graphs.

An extract from a long cartoon strip has students unpacking each frame for meaning and the visual language techniques of; speech bubbles, layout angles, and gestures. SJ-4-1-1997.

Students read a collage of students' statements about the battle at Gallipoli and respond to questions on fonts, symbols, visual background, and issues. SJ-4-2-1997.

Students view a set of images to answer questions about the camera angles used and the effects these create. Students also suggest sound effects and dialogue for the images.

Students look at a water safety poster and answer questions relating to the posters construction.

Students view a television advertisement, and answer questions about advertising techniques and the effect on the audience.

Assessment focus: ability to de-construct and interpret messages in advertising, so that students can understand meaning-making processes in the construction of imagery.