Year 9 SyllabusTest
The Arts Scope and SequenceYear 9 Syllabus
The syllabus is based on the requirement that in Years 9 and 10 the study of the Arts is optional.
Year Level Description
In Year 9, students are provided with opportunities to view media work from contemporary and past times to explore viewpoints from Australian and/or international media work. They consider the impact context and audience have on media work, and explore the impact of trends on how audiences use media.
Students extend and refine their skills and processes for problem-solving, working as a team, following timelines and using 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 may be either Media Fiction (for example, TV fiction, comics and graphic novels, magazines) or Media Non-Fiction (for example, documentaries, news stories, current affairs stories).
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 (ACAMAM073)
Codes and conventions for constructing meaning in the selected media type, genre and/or style studied (ACAMAM073)
Point of view for different audiences in the context of the media type, genre and/or style studied (ACAMAM073)
Media works that experiment with narrative conventions in the context of the media type, genre and/or style studied (ACAMAM073)
Representation
Representation of ideas, issues or people in the media now, and/or in the past, and the values they represent (consideration of stereotypes) (ACAMAM074)
Production
Controls and audience values impacting the production context of media work (ACAMAM077)
Skills and processes
Media production skills to integrate codes and conventions in media work for a specific purpose, meaning and style (ACAMAM075)
Independent awareness of safe production practices when using technologies and resources (ACAMAM077)
Team skills and specific role responsibilities (ACAMAM076)
Personal and group timelines and development of problem-solving skills (ACAMAM076)
Production process using appropriate technical skills and processes, scripts, storyboards and layouts (ACAMAM075)
Responding
Analysing and reflecting on intentions
The impact of their own and others’ media work for the intended audience, purpose and context (ACAMAR078)
Media work from contemporary and past times to explore differing viewpoints in Australian media work and/or international media work (ACAMAR079)
Media conventions, social and/or cultural beliefs and values that underpin representations in media work (ACAMAR078)
Audience
Impact of intended audience on the producer’s selections in choosing codes and conventions, styles, narrative, genre, representations, stereotypes, differing points of view and values (ACAMAR078)
Intended audience profile of specific media work (ACAMAR078)
Impact of current trends in how audiences use media (ACAMAR079)
Achievement standard
At Standard, students apply some media terminology specific to the task and chosen context. They use codes and narrative conventions appropriate to genre and purpose, construct meaning and create point of view to engage an audience. Students construct representations of ideas, issues and people that reflect values. They demonstrate social and cultural sensitivity in media work by observing controls and audience values. Students complete most required planning, and select and safely use technology to create and edit planned media work, with mostly effective results. Students apply some problem-solving processes and fulfil most personal and team timeline responsibilities.
Students describe, in their own work and the work of others, aspects, and some impact, of media work in relation to audience, purpose and context. They identify the impact of current trends on how audiences use media.
The syllabus is based on the requirement that in Years 9 and 10 the study of the Arts is optional.
Year Level Description
In Year 9, students are provided with opportunities to view media work from contemporary and past times to explore viewpoints from Australian and/or international media work. They consider the impact context and audience have on media work, and explore the impact of trends on how audiences use media.
Students extend and refine their skills and processes for problem-solving, working as a team, following timelines and using 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 may be either Media Fiction (for example, TV fiction, comics and graphic novels, magazines) or Media Non-Fiction (for example, documentaries, news stories, current affairs stories).
Students are expected to work within, or across, the following media in each year level: film, television, photography, print media, radio or online media.