Media Arts / Year 3 and 4 / Exploring and responding

Curriculum content descriptions

explore where, why and how media arts is created and/or distributed across cultures, times, places and/or other contexts (AC9AMA4E01)

Elaborations
  • sequencing images, sounds and/or text to clearly establish the beginning, middle and end of a story or event; for example, taking a series of photographs or a short film sequence that represents comic superheroes and villains through setting, costume and body language
  • identifying meaning and describing representations in media arts works from different social, cultural or historical contexts; for example, examining the different ways traditional stories are retold using media technologies or the use of stereotypes in advertising
  • comparing media arts works made for different purposes using appropriate language, and identifying features such as use of conventions in a variety of media types
  • using appropriate language to discuss the meaning of their own media arts works; for example, in writing or through an oral, visual or multimedia presentation
  • investigating digital or analog storyboarding as a planning tool; for example, preparing a storyboard for a short film, stop motion or comic strip, to create a sequence of actions, changes or events; rearranging the sequence of boards, or adding and removing boards, to change the meaning or add new meaning to the narrative, and testing how a group of people responds
General capabilities
  • Literacy Literacy
  • Intercultural understanding Intercultural Understanding
ScOT terms

Characters (Narratives),  Communities,  Culture,  Cultural contexts,  Media arts,  Settings (Narratives)

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