Multimedia: Media Arts

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Media Arts

The Australian Curriculum: Media Arts involves using digital multimedia to create representations of the world and tell stories using formats such as television, film, video, newspapers, radio, games, and mobile media.

In Media Arts students study, design, create and distribute multimedia works. They learn to 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 and explore, view, analyse and participate in media culture from a range of viewpoints and contexts. They learn to be critically aware of ways that the media are culturally used and negotiated, and the factors which shape contemporary communication through media technologies and globally networked communications.

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Exploring ideas and improvising with ways to represent ideas

  • Investigate and devise representations of people in their community, including themselves, through settings, ideas and story structure in images, sounds and text (ACAMAM058)

Developing understanding of practices

  • Use media technologies to create time and space through the manipulation of images, sounds and text to tell stories (ACAMAM059)

Sharing artworks through performance, presentation or display

  • Plan, create and present media artworks for specific purposes with awareness of responsible media practice (ACAMAM060)

Responding to and interpreting artworks

  • Identify intended purposes and meanings of media artworks, using media arts key concepts, starting with media artworks in Australia including media artworks of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples (ACAMAM061)