Media arts / Year 7 and 8

Curriculum content descriptions

Experiment with the organisation of ideas to structure stories through media conventions and genres to create points of view in images, sounds and text (ACAMAM066)

Elaborations
  • creating multiple representations of the same person, place or concept in different media and for different intentions
  • experimenting with use of images, sounds and text and selected conventions to challenge existing stereotypes in society
  • combining established genre conventions such as framing in still and moving image, sound in radio play or audiovisual artworks, and font size, shape and colour in print
  • Considering viewpoints – forms and elements: For example – What elements define a genre? How can I create mood and setting through images/sound/framing?
General capabilities
  • Literacy Literacy
  • Critical and creative thinking Critical and creative thinking
  • ICT capability Information and Communication Technology (ICT) capability
ScOT terms

Themes (Texts),  Media arts,  Plots (Stories)

Text

Film it! Screenwriting

Screenwriting is the act of writing what's known as a script or screenplay for film, television and web series. It involves a special set of rules that makes it different from a book or play. This module of Film It covers formatting, scene writing, script structure, themes, and character. Writing the script is part of ...