VCE MEDIA
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Introduction
1.1 Introduction
This resource is designed for teachers and students to access. It contains lessons and content intended to be taught or supplied for a VCE media class. The content is formed around and for the VCE media design study (VCAA 2011 - 2016). It is designed for students to access as direction for self-directed learning towards a ‘body of work’. Students completing the
unit with altered study plans or requirements will be taken into consideration
and assessment tasks/SACs will be altered to suit their specific requirements.
1.2 Rationale
This unit is designed so that students may learn new skills and earn a better understanding of media and representation within the media. The study design is formed so that students will be able to complete a number of making and responding tasks surrounding personal research alongside the course content. Students are encouraged to explore new mediums and issues underlying media and it’s representation in contemporary art as well as contemporary society. Artworks and artists from pre and post 1990 have been selected to aid in the representation and reflection of media until now. The assessment outcomes will be coupled with mini-activities for the students to complete, creating both summative and formative assessments throughout the unit.
Chart representing the weighting of VCE unit 3 & 4 collective assessments
In VCE years students should be displaying a wide range of VELs progression points, but able to demonstrate a range of progression points, but ideally be demonstrating 11.5
At 11.5, the work of a student progressing beyond the standard at Level 10 demonstrates, for example:
Creating and making
- refinement of planning document content to enhance communication of a personal or distinctive style.
- refinement of selected approaches to use of media technologies and/or forms to realise ideas in ways appropriate to personal style.
- inventive use of production skills and equipment to realise intention for a specific audience
- evaluation of the effectiveness of different applications for creating specific aesthetics in media products.
- refinement of an approach that reflects response to audience feedback about the use or interpretation of codes and conventions in representing a key theme or idea
Exploring and responding
- comparison and evaluation of the impact of specific elements and devices used by a range of producers to convey a narrative, idea or aesthetic feature
- use of evidence drawn from evaluation and language appropriate to selected styles and genres when discussing the impact of media texts and products
- examination of the historical role of a selected media form and individual media texts from a chosen context
(Victorian Curriculum Assessment Authority, AusVELs progression points, The Arts (Media) – Progressing beyond Level 10, page 5 - 6, December 2012, retreived from progression points for media)
Unit 3: Narrative and media production design
VCE Media Study Design
Hayley Duyn, Unit 3 Pie chart, 2015
"In this unit students develop an understanding of film, television or radio drama production and story elements, and learn to recognise the role and significance of narrative organisation in fictional film, television or radio drama texts. Students examine how production and story elements work together to structure meaning in narratives to engage audiences. Students also develop practical skills through undertaking exercises related to aspects of the design and production process. They complete a media production design plan for a specific media form and audience. They present the relevant specifications as a written planning document, with visual representations that employ media planning conventions appropriate to the media form in which the student chooses to work." (VCAA 2012)
Unit 4: Media: process, influence and society’s values
VCAA Media Study Design
Hayley Duyn, Unit 4 pie chart, 2015
"In this unit students further develop practical skills in the production of media products to realise the production design plan completed during Unit 3. Organisational and creative skills are refined and applied throughout each stage of the production process. Students analyse the relationship between media texts, social values and discourses in the media. The nature and extent of media influence, the relationship between the media, media audiences and media regulation are also critically analysed in this unit." (VCAA 2012)