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AC9AMA10C01 Years 9 to 10 The Arts

AC9AMA10C01 | Years 9 to 10 Media Arts: Media Arts

Content Descriptor

Content descriptor design and structure media arts works that examine and communicate ideas, perspectives and/or meaning
Strand
Creating and making
Substrand
Media Arts

This content descriptor sets out learning for Years 9 to 10 Media Arts. Use it to plan lessons and assessment with the Australian Curriculum v9.

Elaborations

  • • Elaboration 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
  • • Elaboration 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
  • • Elaboration 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
  • • Elaboration 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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