Media

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Students are continuing to explore our emotional spectrum and how we can demonstrate our knowledge of emotions using media. Focusing on happiness, sadness, anger, fear and excitement, students are working collaboratively to discuss what each emotion feels like, the different scenarios we may experience them, what each emotion may look like, how to self-manage these emotions, and how to support others who may be experiencing them. 

Upon completion of our final emotion in Week Two, excitement, the students will view their photos as a whole, reflecting on the range of emotions they are capable of demonstrating. Through sharing our photos with the rest of the class, students develop empathy through seeing how others may display their emotions during times of need or over-stimulation. 

YEAR ONE

Having concluded our unit on using sound to enhance narratives, Year One students are exploring how visualising is an integral part in creating media works. Students have made connections between the visualisation they perform in Literacy when writing or reading, and how this skill is scaffolded in Media to create works with images. As communicators, students participated in a read-aloud of Little Red Riding Hood and shared with their peers how they imagined the various details of the text. Through class discussions, we realised that as creators, there is no limit to how our stories can look. 

YEAR TWO

Beginning in Term Two, the Year Two students have been investigating advertising. Students made connections to the techniques used by advertisers and those they employ in Literacy during persuasive writing.  Students identified the target audience of different commercials and analysed what made them appealing to that demographic. As a class, they compared advertisements for the same product across multiple decades, examining what techniques are still being employed and how advertisers have changed the way they target their audience. 

YEAR THREE

In Year Three, students have begun exploring how they can create a narrative using only still images. They have explored the many different mediums to tell a story, from verbal retelling, to writing, music, and moving image. By investigating still image storytelling, students are learning how to condense/summarise a narrative in as few images as required. This puts a focus on analysing what visual information is contained in a frame and what it communicates to an audience. Moving forward, students will use their photography skills learned in Term One to take photos and create still-image narratives of their own.

YEAR FOUR

Our Year Four students have concluded their unit on creating a piece on a day in the life of a Saltwater student. The Year Fours brainstormed, collaborated, storyboarded, filmed, edited and published their pieces. They needed to be visually minded, considering how to best communicate their ideas with an audience, without using dialogue. When editing together their final piece, students developed their knowledge in transitions, sound effects, pacing and background music.  

Moving forward, student will begin a unit analysing and interpreting media works.