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AC9AMA8C01 Years 7 to 8 The Arts

AC9AMA8C01 | Years 7 to 8 Media Arts: Media Arts

Content Descriptor

Content descriptor design and structure media arts works to communicate ideas, perspectives and meaning for an intended audience
Strand
Creating and making
Substrand
Media Arts

This content descriptor sets out learning for Years 7 to 8 Media Arts. Use it to plan lessons and assessment with the Australian Curriculum v9.

Elaborations

  • • Elaboration using pre-production templates such as a storyboard, shooting script or production schedule to plan production
  • • Elaboration understanding the importance of, and applying, respectful relationships and empathy when developing characters to convey historical or cultural ideas and meaning; for example, planning how to create relationships with audiences when developing characters
  • • Elaboration exploring ways to use media languages and technologies to create representations that perpetuate or challenge relationships, or address issues such as stereotyping, bias, identity and sustainable ways of living, in media arts forms such as cartoons, graphic/print, photographic sequences and moving image
  • • Elaboration experimenting with the technical capabilities of media technologies and using media languages to inform plans for the design and construction of representations of people, places or concepts
  • • Elaboration experimenting with ways to use technical and symbolic elements such as sound and lighting to construct representations of people, places and concepts for various genres or media platforms
  • • Elaboration experimenting with audio, including sound effects, music and Foley sounds, to construct ambient sound for different places or to create/enhance an atmosphere
  • • Elaboration experimenting with technical and symbolic elements to construct safe, legal, ethical and responsible representations of cultural or social groups and values
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  • • Elaboration trialling ways to combine established genre conventions to make a hybrid production; for example, exploring genres such as narrative, non-narrative, experimental, micro-documentary, trailer, music video, micro-short film and social media video campaign

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