ACAMAM068

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

Elaborations

• creating their own media artworks that fulfil audience expectations because of the way the story is structured, such as including a point of conflict, building characters and achieving a resolution (Skills: Literacy, Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Capability, Critical and Creative Thinking, Personal and Social Capability)
• Considering viewpoints - forms and elements: For example - What elements define a genre? How can I create mood and setting through images/sound/framing?)
• exploring genres such as narrative, non-narrative, experimental and documentary and making a trailer in a similar style (Skills: Literacy, Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Capability, Critical and Creative Thinking)
• telling 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 (Skills: Literacy, Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Capability, Critical and Creative Thinking, Personal and Social Capability)
• analysing and evaluating the structural choices made in their media artworks by documenting their process in records such as journals, blogs, and video or audio recording (Skills: Literacy, Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Capability, Critical and Creative Thinking)
• Considering viewpoints - evaluations: For example - How are media artworks changed when viewed outside a cultural context? How effective is my image construction in terms of making meaning to me and to others? How can I undertake safe and ethical media practice in online spaces? (Skills: Critical and Creative Thinking)

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