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The Arts: Media Arts

Years 7 and 8

Above satisfactory

Analysis: Contact

Summary of task

Students studied the communicative power of technical elements used in Media Arts as part of a unit of work on the documentary Contact (2009) by Bentley Dean and Martin Butler. They explored and analysed the technical elements of voice-over, music, sound effects and textual techniques in the documentary. They wrote analytical paragraphs as part of an assessment during the 10-week unit. They also explored ethical and subjective viewpoints in response to the documentary. They later used the techniques they had explored in the making of their own short documentaries for a school audience.

Achievement standard

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.

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Annotation 1
Identifies voice-over narration as the major technical element in the documentary
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Annotation 2
Defines the technical element of voice-over
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Annotation 3
Identifies how the voice-over impacts on meaning and depth of message
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Annotation 4
Identifies a specific example of voice-over and archival footage used in the film
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Annotation 5
Identifies other technical elements in the documentary such as photographs and observational video
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Annotation 6
Understands that archival footage represents different times and places
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Annotation 7
Provides an example to substantiate the impact of a voice-over
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Annotation 8
Analyses how voice-over is used to help convey the horror of first contact
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Annotation 9
Explains the cultural and historical value of the documentary
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Annotation 10
Synthesises the use of technique to the communication of meaning
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Annotation 11
explains that sound extends the affective power of voice-over
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Annotation 12
Identifies music and sound effects as technical elements used in the documentary
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Annotation 13
Describes how music and sound effects help engage an audience with visual images
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Annotation 14
Explains that music and sound effects evoke different time and place for an audience
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Annotation 15
Uses specific examples of sound effects that convey a place
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Annotation 16
Uses specific examples of how sound effects can convey time
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Annotation 17
Analyses the symbolic meaning of music and sound effects
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Annotation 18
Describes how sound and music communicate meaning in an engaging and emotive manner
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Annotation 19
Identifies a range of technical elements
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Annotation 20
Defines the technical elements of subtitles
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Annotation 21
Explains that the use of subtitles is a technical effect that translates speech into dialect
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Annotation 22
Asserts that the technical effects work together to communicate to an audience