Subject Code: 9MEA
Length of course: Semester

Course Outline

By the end of Year 10, students analyse how social and cultural values and alternative points of view are portrayed in media artworks they make, interact with and distribute. They evaluate how genre and media conventions and technical and symbolic elements are manipulated to make representations and meaning. They evaluate how social, institutional and ethical issues influence the making and use of media artworks.

Students produce representations that communicate alternative points of view in media artworks for different community and institutional contexts. They manipulate genre and media conventions and integrate and shape the technical and symbolic elements for specific purposes, meaning and style. They collaboratively apply design, production and distribution processes.

Topics Included:

  • Analysis of media artworks from contemporary and past times
  • Experimentation with ideas and stories that manipulate media conventions and genres
  • Development and refinement of media production skills
  • Planning, production and distribution of media artworks, considering social, ethical and regulatory issues

Assessment:

Analysis of media
  • Individual responses - oral, written, multimodal
  • Group responses – oral, written, multimodal

Skill development in:
  • Image manipulation
  • Film techniques
  • Media creation applications/software

Production of:
  • An individual media production
  • A group media production
    • Folio – evidence of planning, preparation and evaluation
    • Final media production (may include: short film, animation, webpage, series of photographic images)
    • Presentation to an audience, with artists’ statement

Additional Costs:
Costs for excursions that include entry fees and transport.