Rationale
This rationale complements and extends the rationale for The Arts learning area.Media arts involves creating representations of the world and telling stories through communications technologies such as television, film, video, newspapers, radio, video games, the internet and mobile media.
Aims
In addition to the overarching aims for the Australian Curriculum: The Arts, media arts knowledge, understanding and skills ensure that, individually and collaboratively, students develop:enjoyment and confidence to participate in, experiment with and interpret the media-rich culture and communications practices that surround them
Structure
Learning in Media ArtsLearning in Media Arts involves students learning to engage with communications technologies and cross-disciplinary art forms to design, produce, distribute and interact with a range of print, audio, screen-based or hybrid artworks.
Example of knowledge and skills
Years 7 and 8
Years 7 and 8 Band Description
In Media Arts, students:
- build on their understanding of structure, intent, character, settings, points of view and genre conventions and explore media conventions in their media artworks
- build on their understanding and use of time, space, sound, movement, lighting and technologies
- examine the ways in which audiences make meaning and how different audiences engage with and share media artworks
- draw on media arts from a range of cultures, times and locations as they experience media arts
- explore the media arts and influences of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples and of the Asia region
- learn that Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people have converted oral records to other technologies
- explore social and cultural values and beliefs of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples as represented in media artworks and consider how these may influence the media artworks they make
- learn that over time there has been further development of different traditional and contemporary styles as they explore media forms
- explore meaning and interpretation, forms and elements including structure, intent, character, settings, points of view, genre conventions and media conventions as they make and respond to media artworks
- consider social, cultural and historical influences and representations in media arts
- evaluate how established behaviours or conventions influence media artworks they engage with and make
- maintain safety in use of technologies and in interaction with others, including the use of images and works of others
- develop ethical practices and consider regulatory issues when using technology
- build on their understanding from previous bands of the roles of artists and audiences as they engage with more diverse media artworks.
Years 7 and 8 Content Descriptions
Experiment with the organisation of ideas to structure stories through media conventions and genres to create points of view in images, sounds and text
(ACAMAM066 - Scootle
)
Develop media representations to show familiar or shared social and cultural values and beliefs, including those of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples
(ACAMAM067 - Scootle
)
Develop and refine media production skills to shape the technical and symbolic elements of images, sounds and text for a specific purpose and meaning
(ACAMAM068 - Scootle
)
Plan, structure and design media artworks that engage audiences
(ACAMAM069 - Scootle
)
Present media artworks for different community and institutional contexts with consideration of ethical and regulatory issues
(ACAMAM070 - Scootle
)
Analyse how technical and symbolic elements are used in media artworks to create representations influenced by story, genre, values and points of view of particular audiences
(ACAMAR071 - Scootle
)
Identify specific features and purposes of media artworks from contemporary and past times to explore viewpoints and enrich their media arts making, starting with Australian media artworks including of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander media artworks
(ACAMAR072 - Scootle
)
Years 7 and 8 Achievement Standards
By the end of Year 8, students identify and analyse how representations of social values and points of view are portrayed in the media artworks they make, distribute and view. They evaluate how they and other makers and users of media artworks from different cultures, times and places use genre and media conventions and technical and symbolic elements to make meaning. They identify and analyse the social and ethical responsibility of the makers and users of media artworks.
Students produce representations of social values and points of view in media artworks for particular audiences and contexts. They use genre and media conventions and shape technical and symbolic elements for specific purposes and meaning. They collaborate with others in design and production processes, and control equipment and technologies to achieve their intentions.
Years 7 and 8 Work Sample Portfolios
Years 9 and 10
Years 9 and 10 Band Description
In Media Arts, students:
- refine and extend their understanding and use of structure, intent, character, settings, points of view, genre conventions and media conventions in their compositions
- extend the use of time, space, sound, movement and lighting as they use technologies
- analyse the way in which audiences make meaning and how audiences interact with and share media artworks
- draw on media arts from a range of cultures, times and locations as they experience media arts
- explore the media arts and influences of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples and of the Asia region
- learn that Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people have converted oral records to other technologies
- learn that over time there has been further development of different traditional and contemporary styles as they explore media forms
- explore the representation of relationships that have developed between Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples and other cultures in Australia and how these may influence their own artistic intentions in making media artworks
- explore meaning and interpretation, forms and elements, and social, cultural and historical influences of media arts as they make and respond to media artworks
- consider the local, global, social and cultural contexts that shape purpose and processes in production of media artworks
- evaluate the social and ethical implications of media arts
- maintain safety in use of technologies and in interaction with others, including the use of images and works of others
- maintain ethical practices and consider regulatory issues when using technology
- build on their understanding from previous bands of the roles of artists and audiences as students engage with more diverse media artworks.
Years 9 and 10 Content Descriptions
Experiment with ideas and stories that manipulate media conventions and genres to construct new and alternative points of view through images, sounds and text
(ACAMAM073 - Scootle
)
Manipulate media representations to identify and examine social and cultural values and beliefs, including those of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples
(ACAMAM074 - Scootle
)
Develop and refine media production skills to integrate and shape the technical and symbolic elements in images, sounds and text for a specific purpose, meaning and style
(ACAMAM075 - Scootle
)
Plan and design media artworks for a range of purposes that challenge the expectations of specific audiences by particular use of production processes
(ACAMAM076 - Scootle
)
Produce and distribute media artworks for a range of community and institutional contexts and consider social, ethical and regulatory issues
(ACAMAM077 - Scootle
)
Evaluate how technical and symbolic elements are manipulated in media artworks to create and challenge representations framed by media conventions, social beliefs and values for a range of audiences
(ACAMAR078 - Scootle
)
Analyse a range of media artworks from contemporary and past times to explore differing viewpoints and enrich their media arts making, starting with Australian media artworks, including media artworks of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples, and international media artworks
(ACAMAR079 - Scootle
)
Years 9 and 10 Achievement Standards
By the end of Year 10, students analyse how social and cultural values and alternative points of view are portrayed in media artworks they make, interact with and distribute. They evaluate how genre and media conventions and technical and symbolic elements are manipulated to make representations and meaning. They evaluate how social, institutional and ethical issues influence the making and use of media artworks.
Students produce representations that communicate alternative points of view in media artworks for different community and institutional contexts. They manipulate genre and media conventions and integrate and shape the technical and symbolic elements for specific purposes, meaning and style. They collaboratively apply design, production and distribution processes.