VCE Units 3 & 4 - Media
VCE Units 3 & 4 - Media
Overview
VCE Media provides students with the opportunity to examine the media in both historical and contemporary contexts while developing skills in media design and production in a range of media forms. Students consider narratives, technologies and processes from various perspectives including an analysis of structure and features. They examine debates about the media’s role in contributing to and influencing society. Students integrate these aspects of the study through the individual design and production of their media representations, narratives, and products.
Unit 3: Media narratives, contexts, and pre-production
In this unit students explore stories that circulate in society through a close analysis of media narrative. Through the study of a media narrative, students explore specific codes and narrative conventions and begin the process of research to support their understanding of how they can adopt and employ these techniques in their own works.
Areas of Study:
- Narratives and their contexts – Analyse the construction of media narratives; discuss audience engagement, consumption and reading of narratives; and analyse the relationship between narratives and contexts in which they are produced.
- Research, development, and experimentation – research and document aspects of a media form, codes, narrative conventions, style, genre, story and plot to inform the plan for a media production.
- Pre-production planning – develop and document a media pre-production plan demonstrating the student’s concepts and intentions in a selected media form for a specified audience.
Unit 4: Media production; agency and control in and of the media
In this unit students focus on the production and post-production stages of the media production process, bringing the pre-production plans created in Unit 3 to their realisation. Students refine their media production in response to feedback and through personal reflection, documenting the iterations of their production as they work towards completion
Areas of Study:
- Media Production – Complete the production and postproduction of the media product designed in Unit 3. They will use technologies and processes relevant to their media form, undertake personal reflection and seeking feedback to help refine their media product.
- Agency and Control in and of the media – use evidence, arguments, and ideas to discuss audience agency, media influence, media regulation and ethical and legal issues in the media
Forms of Assessment
Written analysis for theoretical study, Media Production Design Plan, complete as a folio, Examination – covering theoretical study and personal reflections on SAT.
Prerequisites and Corequisites
Students are expected to have satisfied the work requirements of Media Units 1 & 2.