Media
Units 3 & 4
Year 12
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.
“Media is really cool because I get the opportunity to improve my editing skills on the Macs”. Cooper-Lee Haughton.
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
If you are interested in this subject please see Ayan Abeysekera
In this video some Year 12 talk about their media experience