Media arts / Year 3 and 4

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Curriculum content descriptions

Use media technologies to create time and space through the manipulation of images, sounds and text to tell stories (ACAMAM059)

Elaborations
  • experimenting with the camera and framing the subject, using basic shot types, angles and lighting to control picture space
  • experimenting with applying text to accompany still or moving images, such as credits in a title sequence, and selecting appropriate fonts, colour and length of time for display suitable to the purpose of the artwork
  • practising recording sound on a variety of devices to explore volume, layering and the use of voice to create a sense of environment
  • experimenting with ways of formatting and laying out a story using available software and appropriate text conventions for a front page news story
General capabilities
  • Literacy Literacy
  • ICT capability Information and Communication Technology (ICT) capability
ScOT terms

Camera shots,  Composition (Visual arts),  Image manipulation

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