This study discusses a visual communications project designed to develop activities to promote visual literacy at the elementary and secondary school levels. The project has four phases: (1) perception of basic forms in the environment, what these forms represent, and how they inter-relate; (2) discovery and communication of more complex perceptual elements, such as distance, angle, depth of field, contrast, texture, sequence, and the relationship between sound and image; (3) perception of the spatial and sequential relationships between image and sound, and (4) synthesis of these skills. Throughout the project the children learn to understand and operate the equipment of the new media and to use this knowledge to communicate ideas. A tentative outline of skills to be taught in units on visual perception, still photography, the relationship between sound and image, media hardware, and multimedia comparisons is presented. The study includes suggested teaching activities for the first three phases of the project. (Author/DI)