Media arts / Year 7 and 8

Curriculum content descriptions

Develop media representations to show familiar or shared social and cultural values and beliefs, including those of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples (ACAMAM067)

Elaborations
  • investigating viewpoints when making decisions about how they will represent a theme, concept or idea, and considering media conventions and genres
  • manipulating combinations of technical and symbolic elements (composition, time, space, sound, movement, lighting) to represent ideas and feelings in their media artworks
  • discussing and documenting their choices of representation to strengthen meaning in their media artworks
  • Considering viewpoints – philosophies and ideologies: For example – What ideological or political perspectives are evident in my artwork to engage a particular audience? What established behaviours or conventions have influenced the design of my artwork for a particular audience?
  • exploring media artworks that provide different ideas and concepts based on points of view and institutional practice, including viewing and experimenting with the depiction of cultural groups and social values in Australian film and television
General capabilities
  • Literacy Literacy
  • Critical and creative thinking Critical and creative thinking
  • Intercultural understanding Intercultural understanding
  • Personal and social capability Personal and social capability
  • ICT capability Information and Communication Technology (ICT) capability
ScOT terms

Indigeneity,  Media influence,  Media arts,  Aboriginal peoples

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