Media Arts / Year 7 and 8 / Creating and making

Curriculum content descriptions

design and structure media arts works to communicate ideas, perspectives and meaning for an intended audience (AC9AMA8C01)

Elaborations
  • using pre-production templates such as a storyboard, shooting script or production schedule to plan production
  • understanding the importance of, and applying, respectful relationships and empathy when developing characters to convey historical or cultural ideas and meaning; for example, planning how to create relationships with audiences when developing characters
  • exploring ways to use media languages and technologies to create representations that perpetuate or challenge relationships, or address issues such as stereotyping, bias, identity and sustainable ways of living, in media arts forms such as cartoons, graphic/print, photographic sequences and moving image
  • experimenting with the technical capabilities of media technologies and using media languages to inform plans for the design and construction of representations of people, places or concepts
  • experimenting with ways to use technical and symbolic elements such as sound and lighting to construct representations of people, places and concepts for various genres or media platforms
  • experimenting with audio, including sound effects, music and Foley sounds, to construct ambient sound for different places or to create/enhance an atmosphere
  • experimenting with technical and symbolic elements to construct safe, legal, ethical and responsible representations of cultural or social groups and values
  • trialling ways to combine established genre conventions to make a hybrid production; for example, exploring genres such as narrative, non-narrative, experimental, micro-documentary, trailer, music video, micro-short film and social media video campaign
General capabilities
  • Critical and creative thinking Critical and Creative Thinking
ScOT terms

Literary devices,  Attitudes,  Stereotypes,  Image manipulation,  Audiences,  Camera shots,  Cinematography,  Media arts,  Print media,  Photography,  Page layout

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