Length: Semester

Recommended background: None  

Content:

In Media Arts, students learn 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.

Students engage their senses, imagination and intellect through media artworks that respond to diverse cultural, social and organisational influences. They explore, view, analyse and participate in media culture from a range of viewpoints and contexts, as a maker and consumer of media arts.

Students make critical judgements about their own media artworks and the media artworks they see, hear, interact with and consume as audiences.

Students use existing and emerging technologies as they explore imagery, text and sound and create meaning as they participate in, experiment with and interpret diverse cultures and communications practices.

The five key concepts of Media Arts:

• The media languages used to tell stories
• The technologies which are essential for producing, accessing and distributing media
• The various institutions that enable and constrain media production and use
• The audiences for whom media arts products are made and who respond as consumers, citizens and creative individuals
• The constructed representations of the world, which rely on shared social values and beliefs. The technical and symbolic elements of media arts are fundamental to all learning in this subject: composition, space, time, movement, sound and lighting

Assessment:

Students’ performance will be determined according to the subject’s Achievement Standards as outlined in the framework of the Australian Curriculum. Grades A to E will be used for reporting purposes.