AC9AMA10C01 Year 9 The Arts

This Content Descriptor from Year 9 The Arts provides the specific knowledge and skills students should learn. Use it to plan lessons, create learning sequences, and design assessments that align with the Australian Curriculum v9.

design and structure media arts works that examine and communicate ideas, perspectives and/or meaning

Elaborations

• 1 using media technologies, languages and representations when designing a media arts work such as a computer game, community service announcement, website or music video, with the intention of developing audience awareness of a social or cultural issue
• 2 using media technologies to design a media arts work that communicates stereotypical representations for a specific target audience; for example, creating a film poster for a genre that relies on stereotypical representations, a music video that perpetuates stereotypical representations of youth, a movie trailer that manipulates genre conventions to meet audiences' expectations, or a social media campaign to advertise a community event
• 3 designing the camera work, sound, editing or mise-en-scène to construct alternative representations of people, places, ideas and events in a narrative media arts work such as a genre film, music video, documentary or animation
• 4 examining the way technical and symbolic codes and conventions of specific film, television or radio genres have been used in a media arts work to communicate values, themes or ideas to an audience; using pre-production processes such as a shot list, shooting script, screenplay, treatment or storyboard to trial ideas, designing a different media arts work that communicates or challenges these values, themes or ideas; for example, a film trailer, short genre film or soundscape

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