Prepare and present visual and multimedia presentations:

• Exhibit logical structures appropriate to audience, purpose, and context
• Develop a central focus and craft strong messages
• Organize ideas in logical and appropriate sequences
• Include smooth transitions
• Use a variety of forms and technologies such as sound, photographs, and models
• Understand how ideas are communicated through elements of design such as colour, shape, line, and texture
• Provide logical and convincing conclusions.

Select, use, and evaluate deliberately a wide variety of before, during, and after strategies to communicate meaning when representing.

Apply accurately and effectively the language cues and conventions to construct and communicate meaning when representing.

Prepare a visual or multimedia presentation on a contemporary Canadian landscape or perspective:

• Develop a presentation that is appropriate to the subject, audience, and purpose, including informing, persuading, and entertaining
• Focus on main points of presentation and include only details that strongly support main points
• Use question, fact, anecdote, or visual aids to get audience's attention
• Sequence visuals in best possible order and support them with sound, maps, charts, objects, or other visual and auditory aids
• Conclude by restating main points in a memorable way
• Use posture, gestures, and facial expressions to send the same message as visuals and words.

Communicate thoughts, ideas, and feelings using two or more media.

Present information on a topic in a planned and focused group session using a variety of audio-visual aids.

Use a variety of technologies to facilitate and enhance representation including computer software and multimedia technology.

Describe and evaluate alternative approaches to presentations for specific audiences and purposes.

Experiment with a variety of text forms (e.g., video documentary) and techniques (e.g., dissolve, fade).