Media Arts / Year 9 and 10 / Exploring and responding

Curriculum content descriptions

investigate the ways that media artists use media arts concepts to construct representations in media arts works and practices across cultures, times, places and/or other contexts (AC9AMA10E01)

Elaborations
  • analysing and evaluating the social, cultural and/or ethical implications of the changing nature of representations in media arts works over time; for example, deconstructing representations constructed at different times or in different places to compare the representations of gender in print, screen and/or interactive media, or deconstructing the representation of multiculturalism or youth in Australian television
  • justifying, in a video commentary, the technical and symbolic code choices they have made in constructing representations, their framework of social and cultural values, and communicating alternative points of view
  • analysing and evaluating the way social beliefs and values can be communicated to audiences through the manipulation of technical and symbolic codes in media arts works they view and make
  • exploring how media platforms use data and how they can influence the breadth and depth of information provided to an audience; for example, through a media feed
  • evaluating relationships embedded within media practices and discussing how media arts works and institutions can influence or challenge media practices and audience perceptions
  • researching audiences of specific genres or users of specific media platforms, and analysing and evaluating the way generic technical and symbolic codes have been manipulated to engage these audiences across media forms such as music videos, animated short films, documentaries, short films, feature films, television programs, computer games, websites or social media platforms (considering online safety protocols)
  • analysing and evaluating the ways technical and symbolic codes have been used to construct stereotypical representations in media arts works targeted to specific audiences in a range of historical and contemporary contexts or across traditional and emerging media formats
  • identifying, describing and explaining the way technical and symbolic codes such as camera techniques, editing, sound, rhythm or mise-en-scène are manipulated in media arts works they have viewed or made to evoke audience responses such as excitement or fear, and/or to convey an intended meaning or position about an issue or idea, such as an opinion about climate change
  • examining the role of media makers in perpetuating and/or challenging prevailing views on issues of contemporary relevance
General capabilities
  • Intercultural understanding Intercultural Understanding
  • Literacy Literacy
ScOT terms

Image manipulation,  Composition (Visual arts),  Culture,  Camera shots,  Cultural contexts,  Symbols

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Living with devils

This resource supports students to understand the process of creating music for film. The stimulus for this project is the Tasmanian video Living with Devils. Students create their own audio-visual masterpieces with guidance from sound-track music composer Maria Grenfell. They create a soundtrack for a mini-documentary ...

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Trop Jr Resource

Trop Jr is Australia’s biggest short film competition for young Australians, building creativity and skills in Media Arts and English through writing, filming, performing and editing. This resource includes a curriculum-aligned guide to the short filmmaking process, with expert advice on getting started, pre-production, ...

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Digital stories

In this comprehensive sequence of learning, students engage with a range of multimodal digital texts to explore innovative ways to tell stories. Three questions guide the sequence: How do multimodal digital texts challenge responder and composer experiences?; How can multimodal digital texts be used to construct narratives ...

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Analysing and Presenting Argument: Fake News and TED Talks - Level 9

In this 18-lesson sequence Year 9 students develop critical media literacy, including the evaluation of a source’s credibility, and deliver a persuasive speech. A Student Workbook includes worksheets and a Teacher Support Resource includes information about the play and examples of how students might respond to tasks. A ...

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Exploring the media landscape in Australia (Lesson 1)

In this lesson, Year 9 students begin by reviewing their understanding of media literacy. Students then expand their knowledge of media literacy by exploring the media landscape in Australia. They examine various forms of media in Australia, both print and digital, along with current big issues personalities, journalists, ...

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The droste effect

This 2-week program requires Years 9-10 (Stage 5, NSW) students create images connecting individual layers using Adobe Photoshop techniques (e.g., transform) to modify the composition so that it loops seamlessly, creating an infinity effect. They document their experiments in a digital journal or art book. There is a downloadable ...

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Invisibility

This 2-week program requires Years 9-10 (Stage 5, NSW) students to investigate and experiment with how various images can be manipulated to change its original meaning. Students will develop their technical knowledge of digital photography and document their experiments in a digital journal or art book. There is a downloadable ...

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Aboriginal peoples and the media

Students explore the key role that the media plays in today’s society, in particular its impact on a range of non-Aboriginal peoples’ perceptions of Aboriginal peoples, cultures and contemporary issues. The representation of Aboriginal peoples and cultural images from pre-invasion to today are investigated and compared. ...

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Costumes of the Performing Arts Collection

Explore some of the costumes curated from the Adelaide Festival Centre’s performing arts collection. Find supporting information and discussion questions to inform conversations about design, and the ways in which performances are conceptualised.

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Camp Windmill Interactive

This webpage aims to develop understandings of the ‘camp’ genre of theatre through interviews with performers, images and short film clips.

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Media and digital literacy for teachers

In this ACMI webinar series, media literacy experts Michael Dezuanni and Amanda Levido guides teachers through the complex, challenging and ever-changing landscape of media and digital culture. They look at curriculum connections, model best-practice teaching and share helpful resources, demonstrating how to use language ...

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Appropriation and reclamation

This resource explores the techniques and themes of appropriation and reclamation, through photomedia works by contemporary artists with Te Moana Nui-based creative practices, alongside paintings created by 19th Century French artist Paul Gauguin, created during his time in Tahiti. The diverse viewpoints and practices of ...

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LGBT+ History Month 2023: Behind the Lens

This resource explores the lives and accomplishments of lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans people who work in the fields of photography, film making, TV and fashion.

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Edward Scissorhands

This resource provides discussion questions and activities for exploring the film 'Edward Scissorhands'. Students discuss the background, themes, setting and genre of the film. Activities are supported by video clips and images from the film.

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Rabbit-Proof Fence

In this resource, students analyse film techniques including themes, characterisation, setting and plot structure in the film 'Rabbit-Proof Fence'. This film is based on the true story of Molly Craig, her sister Daisy Kadibill and cousin Gracie Fields who, after being forcibly removed from their mothers in 1931, escaped ...

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The Swamp

This resource features the Yolngu-made film The Swamp. Students are provided with the opportunity to watch it and engage in a discussion exploring its genre, deviations from traditional documentary format, its impact on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander storytelling, challenges faced by the Yolngu people, and the film's ...

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Manankurra Kujika: The song of the Tiger Shark

The Rrumburriya clan of the Yanyuma people are the custodians of the Tiger Shark Dreaming. In this animation, the Tiger Shark sings plants, fish, birds, fresh water and people at Manankurra, at the mouth of the Wearyan River on the Gulf coast of the Northern Territory. This story from the Yanyuwa people is one of nine that ...

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The Sea Turtle and the Osprey

The Dreaming of the Sea Turtle and the Osprey (Wundanyuka kulu Jujuju) belongs to the Wurdalia clan of the Yanyuwa People, who live in and around Borroloola, near the Gulf of Carpentaria in the eastern Northern Territory. The story follows the Osprey, who pursues Sea Turtles in the islands of the southwest Gulf. Please ...

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a-Kuridi: The Groper

In this spectaular animation, the Groper travels around South West Island in the Gulf of Carpentaria, close to the Northern Territory mainland. She visits different Dreaming countries while creating waterways, plantations and rock formations. The Groper's story belongs to the Wuyaliya clan of the Yanyuma people. This story ...

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Ngurdungurdu: The Tiger Shark

The Tiger Shark travels from the east to his country at the mouth of the Wearyan River on the Gulf coast of the Northern Territory. On his way he encounters the Rock Wallaby, who drives him from her country. The Rrumburriya clan of the Yanyuma people are the custodians of the Tiger Shark Dreaming. This story from the Yanyuwa ...