Media Arts

Media arts concepts are the 6 concepts fundamental to Media Arts. They are media technologies, representations, audiences, institutions, media languages and relationships. Together, the media arts concepts provide a framework for students to engage with and create media arts works in existing or emerging forms and to consider media arts practices. The media arts concepts, although discussed independently, are interrelated. Students engage with each of the concepts at varying levels of depth in all bands.

In the media arts, production processes include 3 key stages during the creation of media arts works: pre-production, production and post-production. Other stages in a production process such as development and/or distribution may be considered, particularly in Years 7–10 as appropriate.

The examples are suggestions only and are neither prescriptive nor exhaustive. Teachers can draw from these examples to:

• make decisions about the order and pace with which they introduce and develop knowledge and skills
• support differentiation and meeting the needs of students with diverse learning needs
• plan Arts learning across a range of delivery contexts such as multi-disciplinary units across The Arts and other learning areas.

Throughout their Media Arts learning, students use questions based on Viewpoints (personal and imaginative, cultures and worlds, conventions, and processes) as an inquiry tool for considering their media arts practice from multiple perspectives, as artist or as audience. Suggested questions that explore the Viewpoints are also included alongside the examples of knowledge and skills.

Teachers are best placed to make decisions about the examples and questions that will best suit their students and context. Graphics suggest an introductory point for each of the knowledge and skill examples.