VCE Units 1 & 2 - Media
VCE Units 1 & 2 - Media
Overview
VCE Media provides students with the opportunity to develop critical and creative knowledge and skills. Media products, technologies and processes are considered from various perspectives including their structure and features, their industry production and distribution context, audience reception and the impact of media in society. This aspect of the study is integrated with the individual and collaborative design and production of media representations and products.
Unit 1: Media forms, representations, and Australian stories
Students develop an understanding of the relationship between the media, technology and the representations present in media forms. They develop practical and analytical skills, including an understanding of the contribution of codes and conventions to the creation of meaning in media products, the role and significance of selection processes in their construction and the stories told that represent our Australian culture.
Areas of Study:
- Media Representations – The concept of audience and what it entails. How audiences engage with the media to construct and negotiate understandings of the world and themselves through their participation in the consumption, reception, production, curation and distribution of media products.
- Media forms in production – Students produce representations in two or more media forms, analysing how different media technologies affect the meanings that can be created in the representations.
- Australian stories – Students explore the construction and reception of Australian stories.
Unit 2: Narrative across media forms
Students develop their understanding of the specialist production stages and roles within the construction of media narratives across a variety of forms and genres. Students develop practical skills through undertaking assigned roles during their participation in specific stages of a media production and analyse issues concerning the impact new media technologies have on the way we produce and consume media narratives.
Areas of Study:
- Narrative, style and genre – Students explore and examine how narratives construct realities and meaning for audiences.
- Narratives in production – Focuses on media production undertake by students within a collaborative context and the student’s explanation of the process.
- Media and change – Analyse the influence of new media technologies on society, audiences, the individual, media industries and institutions.
Forms of Assessment
Representations Written Response, Technologies of Representation – Film Trailer and Poster, Group Media Productions, Media Industry Research Task, Media Organisations Written Response
Prerequisites and Corequisites
There are no prerequisites, but students are encouraged to complete Year 10 Media.