AC9AMA6E01 Year 5 The Arts

This Content Descriptor from Year 5 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.

explore ways that media languages and media technologies are used in media arts works and practices across cultures, times, places and/or other contexts

Elaborations

• 1 investigating characters in games, considering issues such as stereotyping or bias as background to designing and drawing a game character for a particular genre, and considering the appropriate costume, cultural background and/or sample dialogue
• 2 exploring status, such as power relationships, and showing different perspectives of character by using framing, colour and costume to create a hero or villain character
• 3 using Viewpoints to develop questions that explore the impact of media technologies on the way the audience experiences a story in media arts; for example, “How can I change the meaning of a story by changing or adding a soundtrack to my images?”, “How can I use framing to demonstrate a power relationship between characters in the story?”
• 4 researching and comparing media representations created in different times and places, and explaining how context influences the characters, stories and values portrayed in media arts works; for example, comparing TV representations of family
• 5 using Viewpoints to develop questions to explore new ideas; for example, “How are values demonstrated in this media representation?”, “Can we judge a culture from popular media images?”
• 6 exploring how context influences the characters, stories and values portrayed in media arts works; for example, comparing online advertisements that convey safety messages
• 7 discussing the role of media arts works in sharing cultural information about a group of people and their spirituality, and enhancing the value placed on people and the environment

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