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• 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

• The Arts | Media Arts: Rationale and Aims

  The VCAA has published the Victorian Curriculum F–10 Version 2.0. To view the curriculum, familiarisation resources and support material, go to the Victorian Curriculum F–10 Version 2.0 website.
  
  Go to the VCAA website to explore the timeline for familiarisation and implementation of...

  Overview material | Media Arts

• 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...

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• The Arts | Media Arts: Scope and Sequence

  The curriculum sets out what students are expected to learn and is designed as a continuum of learning. The curriculum is being presented in a scope and sequence chart to support teachers to easily see the progression and assist in planning teaching and learning programs to meet the diverse needs...

  Overview material | Media Arts

• The Arts | Media Arts: Structure

  The curriculum is structured around four strands, each of which involves making and responding.

  Strand	Explore and Represent Ideas	Media Arts Practices	Present and Perform	Respond and Interpret
  	Exploring and experimenting with ideas and representations using images, sound and text. Manipulating...

  Overview material | Media Arts

• VCAMAE040

  Experiment with ideas and stories that manipulate media elements, and genre conventions to construct new and alternative viewpoints in images, sounds and text

  Elaborations

  • combining different film trailers from different genres or styles, and editing them together to create a new film genre or style
  • constructing characters for a computer game that appeals to diverse audiences
  • experimenting with images, sounds and text to develop representations of current social issues
  • combine different images, sounds and texts from different genres to create an interactive website on a current youth issue or culture

  VCAMAE040 | The Arts | Media Arts | Levels 9 and 10 | Explore and Represent Ideas

• 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

• VCAMAE025

  Investigate and devise representations of people in their community, through settings, ideas and story structure in images, sounds and text

  Elaborations

  • creating a sequence of images, sounds and text or a combination of these, to clearly establish the beginning, middle and end of a story or an event
  • constructing realistic representations of the classroom and then re-constructing fictional versions of the same space
  • taking a series of photographs that show themselves and their friends as comic superheroes and villains, through setting, costume and body language
  • experimenting with tension to create and sustain meaning in the structure of a media artwork, for example, creating relationships between scenes in a documentary
  • experimenting with images to structure a narrative, for example, ordering and reordering images

  VCAMAE025 | The Arts | Media Arts | Levels 3 and 4 | 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

• 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

• 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

• VCAMAE009

  Explore different ways of representing characters and settings through images, sounds and multi-modal texts

  Elaborations

  • indicating the music and image they want in a photostory during a structured session
  • using photographic device to take a picture to represent a setting, character or story and use photo shop with assistance
  • exploring sound to communicate ideas, for example, selecting a sound sample to accompany an image, making sound/ music while watching a video and attaching sound to video
  • exploring composition by selecting images and/or sounds to create the characters in well-known stories or songs or represent a well-known story or idea
  • following rules to make multimodal text and use technologies safely

  VCAMAE009 | The Arts | Media Arts | Level C | Explore and Represent Ideas

• VCAMAE001

  Experience characters and settings through stories in images, sounds and multi-modal texts

  Elaborations

  • exposed to and coactively using technologies associated with media art
  • exposed to media art, images and sounds that represent their world
  • exposed to the use of technologies to capture images or sounds, for example use switch/button to activate media equipment,
  • coactively use various multimedia equipment, tap a switch to take an image, record a sound
  • assisting in composition by selecting images and/or sounds through reaction

  VCAMAE001 | The Arts | Media Arts | Level A | Explore and Represent Ideas

• 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

• 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

• VCAMAE013

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

  Elaborations

  • using a variety of media equipment to create a poster
  • using a basic graphics software program to create visual and sound picture cards
  • using software program to create and present own rhythmic composition or sound piece
  • creating media artwork for a social purpose such as a local community event
  • experimenting with image, for example, using images to represent an idea, location or event
  • exploring composition by selecting images and/or sounds to create a representation of a well-known story or song or character in well-known stories or songs

  VCAMAE013 | The Arts | Media Arts | Level D | Explore and Represent Ideas

• VCAMAM022

  Use media technologies to capture and edit images and sounds and text to tell stories

  Elaborations

  • using digital cameras to capture still or moving images, reviewing captured images, zooming in and out, and deleting unwanted images, to sequence a story
  • using sound recording technology to create, record and edit sound effects to support a story
  • using computer software to add captions to images to enhance meaning to a series of still images
  • selecting and arranging images, sounds and text to organise the structure of a story

  VCAMAM022 | The Arts | Media Arts | Levels 1 and 2 | Media Arts Practices

• VCAMAM014

  Develop skills to use media technology to capture images, sounds and text for a story

  Elaborations

  • using graphic programs with support
  • exploring and using a variety of media technology and learning how to use specific elements such as draw, sound mixing, editing, effects
  • experimenting with and managing a digital camera to capture still images, for example, reviewing captured images, zooming in and out
  • beginning to use computer software to create a photo story using set rules and steps

  VCAMAM014 | The Arts | Media Arts | Level D | Media Arts Practices

• 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