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

Assessment focus: ability to critically analyse and interpret a visual text, based on individual perception and the use of descriptors (visual/verbal/sound etc) to illustrate interpretation.

Assessment focus: ability to interpret visual texts though de-constructing messages to access multiple layers of meaning, by drawing on both the text and previous knowledge and experiences.

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.

This task requires students to do a visual character analysis from an image out of Cinderella: An Art Deco Love Story, retold by Lynn Roberts and illustrated by David Roberts. Due to the pervasive nature of the story of Cinderella and the complexity of the imagery from this particular book, it is expected that students will draw on both their previous knowledge of the fairytale and the descriptive elements of the illustration to make a subjective, but valid, interpretation of character.