Year 3 Media Arts Strand Making

Ideas

Exploration of how sequenced images, audio and text can be used to tell a story or convey a message

Exploration of how fictional characters are represented in stories

Skills

Exploration and experimentation with the codes and conventions of media:

• technical (sequencing and editing images to organise events in a story; camera shots (close-up); camera angles (low angle))
• symbolic (objects, colour, setting, using costumes and props to represent familiar people as fictional characters)
• audio (loudness and softness; music to convey a mood; sound effects)
• written (selecting, arranging and editing text to organise important features of an idea or story)

when producing media work

Production

Production of media work, using codes and conventions to enhance the story or message for an intended audience