Media

Subject Overview: 

In the Media Elective, students explore how media languages, technologies and processes are used to create meaning, tell stories and influence audiences across a range of media forms, including print, audio, screen-based and hybrid media artworks. Students analyse and evaluate media artworks from diverse cultures, times and contexts, including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander perspectives, to examine how representations, values and viewpoints are constructed and interpreted. 

Students experiment with ideas and stories by manipulating technical and symbolic elements, genre conventions and media codes to communicate meaning and engage audiences. They explore how media artworks reflect and challenge social beliefs, cultural perspectives and institutional values, while considering ethical, regulatory and community contexts. 

Through the media production process, students develop and refine skills in planning, producing and distributing media artworks for different purposes and audiences. Working both independently and collaboratively, students use traditional and emerging technologies to create representations through still and moving images, sound, text and interactive elements. They apply creative and critical thinking to shape meaning, style and audience engagement, while reflecting on and evaluating their own and others’ media arts practices. 

AIMS FOR THE 9/10 MEDIA ELECTIVE:

• enjoyment and confidence to participate in, experiment with and interpret the media-rich culture and communications practices that surround them

• creative and critical thinking skills through engagement as producers and consumers of media

• aesthetic knowledge and sense of curiosity and discovery as they explore images, text and sound to express ideas, concepts and stories for different audiences

• knowledge and understanding of their active participation in existing and evolving local, national and global media cultures.