Media Arts / Year 7 and 8 / Developing practices and skills

Curriculum content descriptions

reflect on their own and others’ media arts works and practices to inform choices they make during the production process (AC9AMA8D02)

Elaborations
  • observing and considering potential audience engagement to inform refinements across pre-production, production, post-production and/or distribution processes
  • using Viewpoints to develop investigating questions when making decisions about how to represent a theme, concept or idea, and considering media conventions
  • documenting and explaining their creative choices in relation to representations, genre codes and conventions
  • justifying decisions made by producers in the construction of representations of people, places or concepts through the use of technical and symbolic codes, and how producers benefit from this construction
  • using a storyboarding or editing template to annotate their creative thinking when refining production processes
  • using Viewpoints to develop reflective questions such as “How can I represent a range of views about this issue in my media arts work?”, “What do I need to change in the production processes to create a stronger connection with the audience?”
  • exploring styles and representations particular to a country or region to inform their own practice and to develop their understanding of cultural appropriation and representation; for example, exploring the use of media conventions and languages in cartooning genres in Asia.
General capabilities
  • Critical and creative thinking Critical and Creative Thinking
  • Personal and social capability Personal and Social capability
ScOT terms

Audiences,  Media arts

Online

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Interactive

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Australian collection

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Indigenous Australian collection

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