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• VCAMAR038

  Analyse how technical and symbolic elements are used in media artworks to create representations influenced by genre and the values and viewpoints of particular audiences

  Elaborations

  • analysing stereotypes, looking at what features have either been omitted or exaggerated in a media artwork
  • investigating the use of character types in fictional representations in comedies, to see how selected features allow for quick communication
  • deconstructing a magazine cover explaining how each of its elements, for example, font, masthead and positioning of imagery, contribute to the overall reading
  • analysing a still image on the basis of photographic composition, image effects, and framing, and how they influence meaning, for example, images representing different cultural groups or ethnicities in Australian society, including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples

  VCAMAR038 | The Arts | Media Arts | Levels 7 and 8 | Respond and Interpret

• VCAMAR046

  Analyse and evaluate a range of media artworks from contemporary and past times, including media artworks of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples, to explore differing viewpoints and enrich their media arts making

  Elaborations

  • examining NITV (National Indigenous TV) news and sports programs to explore how Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples' perspectives create and challenge views in mainstream stories
  • investigating the differences between government regulation and self-regulation, for example, researching Australia’s classification system and its relationship to audience, in the production and reception of media artworks from different periods of time.
  • researching viral marketing campaigns and examining the social and ethical implications that arise in relation to choice of different platforms as drivers of distribution
  • exploring the role of media makers in challenging prevailing views on issues of contemporary relevance, for example, social and cultural issues presented in Australian film and television
  • identifying a variety of ways in which media can be produced, including through sole digital producers, cross-media organisations, public and private sector, and multinational organisations from different periods of time and cultures

  VCAMAR046 | The Arts | Media Arts | Levels 9 and 10 | Respond and Interpret

• VCAMAR045

  Analyse and evaluate how technical and symbolic elements are manipulated in media artworks to challenge representations framed by social beliefs and values in different community and institutional contexts

  Elaborations

  • explaining how technical and symbolic elements, such as camera techniques, editing, sound rhythm and mise-en-scène, evoke a personal response such as excitement or fear, or convey an issue or idea such as differing opinions about climate change
  • reviewing a media artwork and adding to, disputing or endorsing the opinions expressed by another source
  • comparing the same idea, event or story presented in artworks in different media, explaining how different technical and symbolic elements are used to engage audiences and influence personal perceptions, for example, comparing two media artworks dealing with a current news event
  • deconstructing a film or television work that includes representation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples to analyse and evaluate the representation of traditional beliefs and values within contemporary cultures

  VCAMAR045 | The Arts | Media Arts | Levels 9 and 10 | Respond and Interpret

• VCAMAE034

  Develop media representations to show familiar or shared social and cultural values and beliefs

  Elaborations

  • investigating different viewpoints and making decisions about how they will represent a theme, concept or idea, considering media conventions and genres
  • manipulating combinations of technical and symbolic elements such as composition, time, space, sound, movement, lighting, to represent ideas and feelings in their media artworks
  • discussing and documenting their choices of representation to strengthen meaning in their media artworks
  • discussing the different intentions of media artists and the influence of media artworks on different audiences, for example, how ideological or political perspectives are used to engage particular audience
  • exploring media artworks that provide different ideas and concepts based on viewpoints and institutional practice, for example, the depiction of cultural groups and social values in Australian film and television

  VCAMAE034 | The Arts | Media Arts | Levels 7 and 8 | Explore and Represent Ideas

• VCAMAR032

  Explain how the elements of media arts and story principles communicate meaning and viewpoints by comparing media artworks from different social, cultural and historical contexts, including media artworks of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples

  Elaborations

  • identifying story structures or particular technical or symbolic elements, such as shot type, sound quality, lighting or setting, that contribute to formation of genre in media artworks
  • researching and comparing historical and contemporary media representations and explaining how context influences the characters, stories and values portrayed in the media artworks, for example, comparing TV representations of families
  • discussing the role of media artworks in sharing cultural information about a group of people, including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, and their spirituality using appropriate images and story principles
  • describing protocols about acceptable and unacceptable use of borrowed material in making and publishing media artworks
  • discussing safety issues and cultural sensitivities in relation to acceptable and unacceptable use to personal and cultural images, sounds, and texts when making and publishing media artworks

  VCAMAR032 | The Arts | Media Arts | Levels 5 and 6 | Respond and Interpret

• VCAMAR039

  Identify specific features and purposes of media artworks from contemporary and past times, including media artworks of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples, to explore viewpoints and enrich their media arts making

  Elaborations

  • surveying the history of television programming in both public and private sectors, commenting on the differences between contemporary and historical examples.
  • comparing a media artwork such as an animation from a sole producer and an international organization, commenting on differences in style
  • analysing the role of media artworks and media artists in transmitting cultural information to create awareness of contemporary issues, including those of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander media artists
  • conducting a case study of how the story from a Hollywood blockbuster film is adapted across media platforms to reach different audiences, for example, games players, social media users, television viewers
  • evaluating how the meanings of media artworks can vary for different audiences and in different contexts for example, the different meanings of media artworks produced for live concerts compared to those produced for viewing online.

  VCAMAR039 | The Arts | Media Arts | Levels 7 and 8 | Respond and Interpret

• VCAMAR020

  Respond to media artworks by describing ideas, characters, settings and stories

  Elaborations

  • identifying characters and settings in media artworks
  • identifying differences and similarities of media artworks from different cultures and societies, such as viewing media artworks that tell stories from local Koorie cultures, and compare them with stories from contemporary Australian society
  • describing ideas in media artworks they make and view
  • identifying media artists and features of their practice, for example, describe what artists such as photographers, animators and filmmakers do

  VCAMAR020 | The Arts | Media Arts | Foundation Level | Respond and Interpret

• VCAMAE041

  Manipulate media representations to identify and examine social and cultural values and beliefs

  Elaborations

  • exploring cultural, social and environmental issues represented in the media and re-imagining and remixing alternate versions to present a variety of perspectives on these issues.
  • utilising the techniques of ‘culture jamming’ to change the meanings of well-known media artworks such as popular advertisements
  • exploring the communication of cultural and social values in Australian music videos, for example, those by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander artists

  VCAMAE041 | The Arts | Media Arts | Levels 9 and 10 | Explore and Represent Ideas

• VCAMAP015

  Present media artworks that communicate a simple idea or story

  Elaborations

  • identifying the main features of a media art piece
  • creating art pieces to communicate ideas, concepts, feels and/ or experiences
  • creating a visual and sound picture card or poster using graphic software with the intention to meet an audience need, for example retell familiar l story or event to share with the class
  • exploring viewpoints – societies and cultures: For example, what images will I use to tell my story, or represent an event?
  • collecting and sharing, with permission of the people involved, class stories and presenting them in the form of a class photo story or PowerPoint
  • assisting in the producing and presenting of a media artwork for a particular purpose, for example, creating a poster about behaviour when using cameras in the room

  VCAMAP015 | The Arts | Media Arts | Level D | Present and Perform

• VCAMAM030

  Develop skills with media technologies to shape space, time, colour, movement and lighting, within images, sounds or text when telling stories

  Elaborations

  • creating a short digital sequence that uses camera angles such as close-ups and medium close-ups to focus on character relationships, power relationships or mood
  • designing and creating an animated sequence that personifies inanimate objects
  • identifying and applying the conventions of web page design to engage and interact with a particular audience
  • editing a chase sequence, adding music to heighten the action and tension
  • editing images or soundtrack of a story to change or emphasise meaning, for example, using framing to represent tension between characters

  VCAMAM030 | The Arts | Media Arts | Levels 5 and 6 | Media Arts Practices

• VCAMAE033

  Experiment with the organisation of ideas to structure stories through settings, genre conventions and viewpoints, in images, sounds and text

  Elaborations

  • creating multiple representations of the same person, place or concept, using different media, to create different viewpoints.in media artworks
  • experimenting with use of images, sounds and text and selected conventions to challenge existing stereotypes in society
  • combining established genre conventions such as framing in still and moving image, sound in radio plays or audio-visual artworks, and font size, shape and colour in print

  VCAMAE033 | The Arts | Media Arts | Levels 7 and 8 | Explore and Represent Ideas

• VCAMAE005

  Respond to characters and settings through images, sounds and multi-modal texts

  Elaborations

  • experiencing various media art experiences related to local stories, ideas
  • experimenting with image, for example, assisting to capture images to be taken by a camera or other device to represent a day, assisting to retell a story of the school day by selecting and arranging images
  • experiencing how objects and images can be linked to stories or songs as a way of representing the ideas in the song or story
  • exploring composition by selecting and ordering images and/or sounds to assist in the creation of a media artwork or represent a preferred stories or songs

  VCAMAE005 | The Arts | Media Arts | Level B | Explore and Represent Ideas

• VCAMAR028

  Identify intended purposes and meanings of media artworks considering who makes media artworks and the characteristics of audiences who view them in different social, historical and cultural contexts, including media artworks of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples

  Elaborations

  • describing representations and interpreting meaning in media artworks from different social, cultural or historical contexts, for example, different ways traditional stories such as Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander stories can be retold using media technologies
  • comparing media artworks made for different purposes using appropriate language, for example, identifying similarities and differences between students’ representation of school and a television program’s representation of the same location
  • comparing a range of media artworks, including those in the community, commemorating different people, times and cultures including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples
  • writing about and discussing with others the meaning of their own media artworks using appropriate language

  VCAMAR028 | The Arts | Media Arts | Levels 3 and 4 | Respond and Interpret

• VCAMAM035

  Develop and refine media production skills using the technical and symbolic elements of images, sounds and text to represent a specific story, purpose and meaning

  Elaborations

  • creating their own media artworks that fulfil audience expectations through story structure, such as including a point of conflict, building characters and achieving a resolution
  • discussing how genres can be created through settings, images and sound, for example, creating mood and setting through images, sound and framing
  • exploring genres such as narrative, non-narrative, experimental and documentary styles, and making a trailer in a similar style
  • preparing a news story in print and for online publishing, and discussing the differences in the structure of content, meaning and delivery between the two media
  • documenting the process of making their media artwork in journals, blogs, video or audio recordings, analysing and evaluating the structural choices they made
  • analysing and evaluating the different contexts of media artworks and their effect on meaning for an audience, for example, how media artworks change when viewed outside the cultural context of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples

  VCAMAM035 | The Arts | Media Arts | Levels 7 and 8 | Media Arts Practices