AC9AMA10E02 – Year 9 The Arts: Media 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.

Elaborations

• • investigating how First Nations Australian media artists and/or producers are exploring and challenging concepts and histories of Australia and Australian identity
• • exploring the ways that First Nations Australian media artists and/or producers use their practice to communicate ideas, messages and lived experiences to the broader community; for example, issues such as The Stolen Generations, land rights, racism, family, stereotyping or dispossession
• • comparing and critiquing ways First Nations Australian media artists use their practice to celebrate and challenge perspectives about Australia's identity, and the multiple ways they communicate these perspectives
• • using questions based on Viewpoints to examine the ideology or philosophical stance taken in media arts works, such as ways that music videos, feature films, community service announcements, advertisements and news reports depict First Nations Australians’ histories and cultures, and evaluating the potential impact on audiences and relationships
• • understanding the ways that media arts provide a voice for First Nations Australians through media institutions and forms such as film, television and online media platforms
• • analysing the ways that First Nations Australian media artists use their practice to challenge and inform community debate and present multiple ways of understanding an issue; for example, exploring how First Nations Australians are caring for Country/Place and highlighting these issues through media arts

Achievement Standard This Supports

This Content Descriptor contributes to the following Achievement Standard: