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Media arts / Year 7 and 8

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Curriculum content descriptions

Develop and refine media production skills to shape the technical and symbolic elements of images, sounds and text for a specific purpose and meaning (ACAMAM068)

Elaborations

creating their own media artworks that fulfil audience expectations because of the way the story is structured, such as including a point of conflict, building characters and achieving a resolution
Considering viewpoints – forms and elements: For example – What elements define a genre? How can I create mood and setting through images/sound/framing?
exploring genres such as narrative, non-narrative, experimental and documentary and making a trailer in a similar style
telling a news story in print and for online publishing and discussing the differences in the structure of content, meaning and delivery between the two media
analysing and evaluating the structural choices made in their media artworks by documenting their process in records such as journals, blogs, and video or audio recording
Considering viewpoints – evaluations: For example – How are media artworks changed when viewed outside a cultural context? How effective is my image construction in terms of making meaning to me and to others? How can I undertake safe and ethical media practice in online spaces?

General capabilities

Literacy
Critical and creative thinking
Personal and social capability
Information and Communication Technology (ICT) capability

ScOT terms

Camera shots, Composition (Visual arts), Artistic purpose, Image manipulation

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