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Media III offers students to create innovative and collaborative film and video projects that engage audiences in Fairhaven, Acushnet, and the world! Students unlock their inner passion, and produce advanced video content that expresses important stories and issues to your community. Challenge yourself and compete in video and film festivals across New England.
By taking this class, you will be able to:
Generate and conceptualize artistic ideas and work. Generate original ideas that integrate aesthetic principles with individual personal style.
Organize and develop artistic ideas and work. Document personal strategies used regularly to organize one’s artistic ideas
Refine and complete artistic work. Identify artistic challenges and reflect upon the advantages and disadvantages of different solutions
Select, analyze and interpret artistic work for presentation. Create media productions by integrating content and form to support a central idea.
Develop and refine artistic techniques and work for presentation. Organize and plan a media arts exhibition that explores a personally meaningful theme, idea, or concept
Convey meaning through the presentation of artistic work. Present a media arts piece that causes audience reflection by presenting different styles or viewpoints
Perceive and analyze artistic work. Identify ways a contemporary media work pushes the boundaries of a genre and discipline.
Interpret intent and meaning in artistic work. Analyze the ways in which cultural and personal perspectives and biases have an impact on how one understands a work of art.
Apply criteria to evaluate artistic work. Identify how bias, culture, and privilege can impact the criteria used to evaluate media artwork.
Synthesize and relate knowledge and personal experiences to make art. Explain the development of a personal aesthetic vision as a media artist and how that is represented in a piece
Relate artistic ideas and works to societal, cultural and historical contexts to deepen understanding. Identify the historical and cultural context that caused the shifting of stylistic elements between artistic movements
Safety in the TV Studio
Careers offered in the communication industry
The role and responsibilities of media professionals
Media Literacy
Confirmation Bias
Misinformation in modern media
Racism in the media
Social Media
Marketing and Public Relations
Fictional Filmmaking
Journalism
Motion Graphic Design
Photoshop Design
Experimental Filmmaking
It is strongly recommended that each student should have a pair of headphones, or ear buds. These can help reduce excessive noise when working in the media art lab.
This class requires no additional materials. This class will be mostly digital, and paper free.
It is expected that each student will have their Chromebook charged with them at all time.