Year 8 SyllabusTest
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Year 8 Syllabus
The syllabus is based on the requirement that all students will study at least two of the five Arts subjects from Pre-primary to Year 8. It is a requirement that students study a performance subject and a visual subject.
Year Level Description
In Year 8, students are provided with opportunities to view media work within the context of the selected focus. Students build on media concepts from previous years, through expansion of the basic communication model to include new and emerging media technologies. They apply their understanding of intended audience, purpose and context in their productions and in their response to their own and others’ media work. They explore current trends in how audiences use media.
Students begin to solve problems, work as a team, follow timelines and use processes and strategies to ensure safe and responsible use of media equipment.
Teachers are required to address knowledge and skills in Media Arts through one or more of the foci and media below. Other foci and media may be used in addition to teach knowledge and skills in Media Arts.
Media focus options: advertising (for example, billboard, 'junk' mail advertising, radio advertising), mass media (for example, blockbuster CGI film, specialist magazines, feature articles) or press (for example, newsletters, news magazine, journalistic photography) and broadcasting (for example, news channels, special interest programs, interactive entertainment).
Students are expected to work within, or across, the following media in each year level: film, television, photography, print media, radio or online media.
Making
Media languages
Introduction to key terminology and technologies related to selected context and focus (ACAMAM066)
Revision and expansion of the basic communication model to include the communication process of new and emerging media technologies (ACAMAM066)
Codes and conventions of common media type, genre and/or style studied (ACAMAM066)
Point of view for a specific audience in the context of the media type, genre and/or style studied (ACAMAM066)
Narrative conventions in the context of the media type, genre and/or style studied (ACAMAM066)
Representation
Representation of ideas, issues or people in the media and the values they represent (consideration of stereotypes) (ACAMAM067)
Production
Controls and audience values influencing the production of media work (ACAMAM070)
Skills and processes
Media production skills to integrate codes and conventions in media work for a specific purpose and meaning (ACAMAM068)
Awareness and safety when using technologies and resources (ACAMAM069)
Team skills and specific role responsibilities (ACAMAM068)
Development of problem-solving skills (ACAMAM068)
Production process using basic technical skills and processes, scripts, storyboards and layouts (ACAMAM068)
Responding
Analysing and reflecting on intentions
The effectiveness of their own and others’ media work for the intended audience, purpose and context (ACAMAR072)
Media work from contemporary times to explore differing viewpoints (ACAMAR072)
Achievement standard
At Standard, students apply some media terminology. They replicate familiar codes and narrative conventions to make meaning, show awareness of genre and purpose and create point of view to appeal to an audience. Students depict representations of ideas, issues and people that reference values. They show some awareness of social and cultural sensitivity in media work by considering controls and audience values. Students apply planning processes, and select and safely use technology to create and edit planned media work, with mostly effective results. They fulfil most team responsibilities.
Students identify, in their own work and the work of others, aspects of media work in relation to audience, purpose and context. They identify some current trends in the ways audiences use media.
The syllabus is based on the requirement that all students will study at least two of the five Arts subjects from Pre-primary to Year 8. It is a requirement that students study a performance subject and a visual subject.
Year Level Description
In Year 8, students are provided with opportunities to view media work within the context of the selected focus. Students build on media concepts from previous years, through expansion of the basic communication model to include new and emerging media technologies. They apply their understanding of intended audience, purpose and context in their productions and in their response to their own and others’ media work. They explore current trends in how audiences use media.
Students begin to solve problems, work as a team, follow timelines and use processes and strategies to ensure safe and responsible use of media equipment.
Teachers are required to address knowledge and skills in Media Arts through one or more of the foci and media below. Other foci and media may be used in addition to teach knowledge and skills in Media Arts.
Media focus options: advertising (for example, billboard, 'junk' mail advertising, radio advertising), mass media (for example, blockbuster CGI film, specialist magazines, feature articles) or press (for example, newsletters, news magazine, journalistic photography) and broadcasting (for example, news channels, special interest programs, interactive entertainment).
Students are expected to work within, or across, the following media in each year level: film, television, photography, print media, radio or online media.