How do you analyze and interpret movies as visual texts..first off what are visual texts?

Question

My assignment is to analyze and interpret both 300 and the Passion of christ as visual texts...how will I do something like that.

Answer 1

visual means what you see. don't try to make things complicated keep things simple and they will become a lot clearer. just write what you see and what you think.

Answer 2

A text is anything with which we make meaning. Books, websites, videos, even smiles and gestures can be thought of as texts.

A visual text makes its meanings with images, or with meaningful patterns and sequences.

For example, a diagram uses images, while a flow chart arranges information in meaningful sequences.

Visual texts range from diagrams to documentaries.

They can be printed (such as an atlas) or electronic (such as a DVD). They can be fiction (such as a movie) or nonfiction (such as a street map). Visual messages are everywhere: on street signs, in books, on television news and packaging. Even the buildings we inhabit and the clothes we wear convey visual messages.

Although visual texts make meaning with images, they don't have to be without words: in fact, words and images are often combined to make the meaning. Think of a map: the words are needed to name the places, while the images are needed to show where those places are and the distances between them.

Answer 3

"Details". A visual text is in the details, the more information given visually the more information which can be gathered.

Answer 4

Try these sites:
www.k-8visual.info
www.georgeton.edu/centers/cndls
www.redingonline.org
Good luck!