Year 10 Media Arts Syllabus
Year 10 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 10, students are provided with opportunities to explore in more depth the way media work is constructed in different contexts and how it can be used to challenge the values of an audience. They explore past and current media trends on audience use of media.
Students continue to make and respond to their own media productions and professional media work within the selected media type, genre or style studied, using refined media production skills and processes: problem solving, working as a team, or independently; setting and following personal and group timelines; and independently using media equipment safely and responsibly.
Teachers are required to address knowledge and skills in Media Arts through two of the foci and media below. Other foci and media may be used in addition to teach knowledge and skills in Media Arts.
Media foci are: Media Fiction (for example, narrative focused video games, celebrities in media fiction, Hollywood or Bollywood films) and Media Non-Fiction (for example, educational programs, wiki site biogs, photographic essays).
Students are expected to work within, or across, the following media in each year level: film, television, photography, print media, radio or online media.
Year 10 Achievement Standard
At Standard, students apply mostly correct media terminology specific to the task and chosen context. They select and use codes with some effectiveness to construct meaning, select and combine narrative conventions appropriate to genre or purpose and use some conventions to position audience. Students use selection processes to construct representations of ideas, issues and people that reflect or challenge values. They demonstrate social and cultural sensitivity in media work by complying with controls and audience values. Students complete most required planning, and select and safely use technology to create and edit planned media work, applying problem-solving processes with mostly effective results. They fulfil most personal and team timeline responsibilities and contribute to some team problem solving.
Students describe, in their own work and the work of others, aspects, and explain the impact, of media work in relation to audience and purpose in a variety of contexts. They describe the impact of past and current trends on how audiences use media.
Analysing and reflecting on intentions
The impact of their own and others' media work for the intended audience, purpose and context
Media work from contemporary and past times to explore differing viewpoints in Australian media work and/or international media work
Media conventions, social and cultural beliefs and values, local and/or global, that underpin representations and shape purposes and processes in media work
Values presented or challenged by celebrities, stars and/or heroes
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
Intended audience profiles of specific media work
Impact of past and current trends in how audience use media