Media
Units 3 & 4

Year 12

Please note: This subject is not available for Year 12 2023

In Unit 3&4 Media Students use the pre-production stage of the media production process to design the production of a media product for a specified audience. They investigate a media form that aligns with their interests and intent, developing an understanding of the media codes and conventions appropriate to audience engagement, consumption and reception within the selected media form. students explore stories that circulate in society through media narratives. They consider the use of media codes and conventions to structure meaning, and how this construction is influenced by the social, cultural, ideological and institutional contexts of production, distribution, consumption and reception.

Units

Unit 3: Media narratives and pre-production

Unit 4: Media production and issues in the media

Skills you will develop

Understand the structure of narratives in film
Analyse codes and conventions used to construct media products
Operate media technologies to produce media products
Analyse how the extent of media influence

Assessment

Film Narrative – Written Test
Media Production Design - Folio
Media Production – Practical
Agency and Control – Written Test

Pathways

Studying Media can lead to the following careers

Director
Actor
Writer
Camera Operator
Producer
Journalist

There are no prerequisites for entry into Units 1,2,3