Media Arts / Year 7 and 8 / Exploring and responding

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investigate the ways that media arts concepts are used in media arts works and practices across cultures, times, places and/or other contexts (AC9AMA8E01)

Elaborations
  • identifying, describing and analysing how, for example, cinematography, mise-en-scène, editing or sound are manipulated to construct representations of people, place, events or ideologies
  • using questions to analyse the ideology or philosophical viewpoint of a media arts work, including what institutions were involved in its distribution, and its potential impact on audiences
  • analysing the way media languages are used to construct representations of people, places and concepts in media genres and products; for example, the ways that technical and symbolic codes are used to construct stereotypical representations of people, places or concepts in media arts works aimed at teenagers
  • analysing the way audiences are positioned to respond to different representations constructed by technical and symbolic codes in media arts works, such as in the depiction of cultural or social groups and values in Australian film and television
General capabilities
  • Intercultural understanding Intercultural Understanding
  • Literacy Literacy
ScOT terms

Literary devices,  Attitudes,  Stereotypes,  Culture,  Plots (Stories),  Themes (Texts),  Cultural contexts,  Media arts

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Creation, Creation

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Purdiwan: Pretty One

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Vivid Sydney – 77 Million Paintings

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Australian collection

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