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• The Arts | Media Arts: Resources

  A range of resources to assist with implementing the Victorian Curriculum F – 10 are available. Please visit the following websites to access these resources (links open in a new window):

  • Victorian Curriculum F – 10 Resources and Support (VCAA)

  Includes general advice and information...

  Overview material | Media Arts

• VCAMAP027

  Plan, create and present media artworks for specific purposes with awareness of responsible media practice

  Elaborations

  • storyboarding and filming a short sequence showing a conflict by selecting camera angles, lighting and costume to convey meaning without dialogue
  • planning and scripting a radio advertisement for a school event representing the public image the school seeks to promote
  • planning to document a school excursion for publication on the school’s intranet, including seeking permission to take photos of class members
  • using responsible media practices when making media artworks, for example, considering how to represent multiculturalism in a documentary of a community event

  VCAMAP027 | The Arts | Media Arts | Levels 3 and 4 | Present and Perform

• The Arts | Media Arts: Learning in Media Arts

  In Media Arts students 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 explore, view, analyse and participate in media culture from a range of viewpoints...

  Overview material | Media Arts

• VCAMAE017

  Explore ideas characters and settings in images, sounds and multi-modal texts

  Elaborations

  • exploring sound to communicate ideas, for example, creating sound effects to enhance the mood or main idea of a story
  • experimenting with images, for example, retelling a story of a school day in a series of captioned images
  • experimenting with technologies to capture sound
  • selecting and editing images and/or sounds to create characters from well-known stories or songs

  VCAMAE017 | The Arts | Media Arts | Foundation Level | Explore and Represent Ideas

• VCAMAE021

  Experiment with ideas and develop characters and settings through stories using images, sounds and text

  Elaborations

  • exploring and experimenting with sound to communicate ideas, for example, creating sound effects to enhance the mood of a story
  • experimenting with image, text and character, for example, retelling a story of the school day in a series of captioned images
  • experimenting with media technologies in still or moving images moving images to tell a story

  VCAMAE021 | The Arts | Media Arts | Levels 1 and 2 | Explore and Represent Ideas

• VCAMAP019

  Present media artworks that communicate ideas

  Elaborations

  • capturing and sequencing images to create comic books that retell familiar and traditional stories to share with the class
  • selecting images to tell a traditional story
  • collecting and sharing class stories and presenting them in the form of a class news bulletin
  • producing and presenting a media artwork for a particular purpose such as a school event

  VCAMAP019 | The Arts | Media Arts | Foundation Level | Present and Perform

• 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

• VCAMAM043

  Plan, structure and design media artworks for a range of purposes that challenge the expectations of specific audiences by particular use of media elements, technologies and production processes

  Elaborations

  • refining use of production skills by working collaboratively to ensure that work meets expectations, for example, fulfilling a brief developed by in-school clients
  • designing media artworks to communicate with a particular audience, for example, applying genre conventions that engage the interests of a specific cultural or social group.
  • trialling and refining different layouts, designs and platforms for a website or virtual world, keeping the content consistent with the expectations of the end users, and with awareness of appropriate internet protocols

  VCAMAM043 | The Arts | Media Arts | Levels 9 and 10 | Media Arts Practices

• VCAMAM042

  Develop and refine media production skills to integrate and shape the technical and symbolic elements in images, sounds and text to represent a story, purpose, meaning and style

  Elaborations

  • refining use of production skills by working collaboratively to ensure that work meets expectations, for example, fulfilling a brief developed by in-school clients
  • designing media artworks to communicate with a particular audience, for example, applying genre conventions that engage the interests of a specific cultural or social group.
  • trialling and refining different layouts, designs and platforms for a website or virtual world, keeping the content consistent with the expectations of the end users, and with awareness of appropriate internet protocols

  VCAMAM042 | The Arts | Media Arts | Levels 9 and 10 | Media Arts Practices

• VCAMAP007

  Share media artworks that communicate ideas or familiar story

  Elaborations

  • selecting and sharing class stories and presenting them to others
  • indicating objects and items in artwork, e.g. house, mum
  • using media tools to communicate observations, feeling or experience
  • assisting in the collecting and sharing, with permission of the people involved, class stories and presenting them in various form such as PowerPoint, choice option page in Boardmaker interactive or PowerPoint, school newsletter
  • assisting in the creating of photo stories and seeking permission to share it with peers another class

  VCAMAP007 | The Arts | Media Arts | Level B | Present and Perform

• VCAMAP044

  Plan, produce and distribute media artworks for a range of community, institutional contexts and different audiences, and consider social, ethical and regulatory issues

  Elaborations

  • producing media artworks for safe posting on suitable social media sharing sites, taking account of ethical and legal responsibilities
  • using critical theories when creating media art works, for example, analysing the social and ethical implications of a viral marketing campaign
  • investigating the production context of a media artwork and producing the work within a specified budget and timeline
  • organising and curating a school media arts festival or exhibition

  VCAMAP044 | The Arts | Media Arts | Levels 9 and 10 | Present and Perform

• VCAMAR016

  Respond to media artworks and describe some of the characteristics they observe

  Elaborations

  • demonstrating acceptable audience behaviour when attending school functions
  • discussing and expressing an opinion about the way artwork was created including expressing what features they like best in others’ arts work
  • discussing basic features of their own and others’ arts work such as identifying main materials used, characteristics of the art work and what the piece is about
  • investigating where the class experience media artworks in their lives and communities and exploring the purpose of the pieces, for example, what is media artworks are used to communicate cultural knowledge

  VCAMAR016 | The Arts | Media Arts | Level D | Respond and Interpret

• VCAMAR008

  Respond to media artworks

  Elaborations

  • indicating what they liked in an artwork by pointing
  • demonstrating artworks they like through repeated viewing and choice making, for example selecting an image to indicate media artwork they want to view, picture/ song do you want/ like
  • exploring and responding to artworks as part of an audience for a short period of time
  • experience media artworks at school and in the local community
  • exploring features of media artworks by indicating elements they like, such as sound, image, colour

  VCAMAR008 | The Arts | Media Arts | Level B | Respond and Interpret

• VCAMAE029

  Explore representations, characterisations and viewpoints of people in their community, using stories, structure, settings, and genre conventions in images, sounds and text

  Elaborations

  • applying the conventions of an established genre to an ordinary everyday event to create humour, for example, a visit to the library as an action movie or lunch as a sports commentary on the radio
  • exploring different power relationships and showing different perspectives on characters by framing images, for example, representing a power relationship drawn from their school or community
  • designing and drawing a game character for a particular genre, considering the appropriate costume, mannerisms and genre-specific dialogue
  • selecting combinations of media materials to represent the same person, location or idea in different ways in a multimodal form, for example, using different music or sound effects or images to represent the same story

  VCAMAE029 | The Arts | Media Arts | Levels 5 and 6 | Explore and Represent Ideas

• VCAMAP037

  Present media artworks within different community and institutional contexts for different audiences, with consideration of ethical and regulatory issues

  Elaborations

  • promoting a school event through different media and online formats, making decisions about time, technological processes, ethical and economic constraints
  • uploading a media artwork designed to engage a specific audience, using appropriate rights and permissions, for example, distributing a music video they have made online
  • justifying their choices for distribution of media artworks for a particular audience
  • understanding Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultural protocols for using images of people appropriately
  • understanding the different institutional contexts when presenting media artworks to specific audiences, for example, the differences between the private sector and the public sector television programming

  VCAMAP037 | The Arts | Media Arts | Levels 7 and 8 | Present and Perform

• 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