Year 11
Year 11

VCE Media Units 1 & 2

 

VCE Media allows students to explore, experiment and engage with media products across a range of different forms. Students gain an understanding of how media narratives are designed, created and distributed and how audiences are a central component to this process. They also develop practical skills with Industry standard software such as the Adobe Creative Suite.

Unit 1: Media forms, representations and Australian stories

 

The relationship between audiences and the media is dynamic and changing. Audiences engage with media products in many ways. In this unit students develop an understanding of audiences and the core concepts underpinning the construction of representations and meaning in different media forms. They explore media codes and conventions and the construction of meaning in media products.

 

Students analyse how representations, narrative and media codes and conventions contribute to the construction of the media realities audiences engage with and read. Students gain an understanding of audiences as producers and consumers of media products. Through analysing the structure of narratives, students consider the impact of media creators and institutions on production. They develop research skills to investigate and analyse selected narratives focusing on the influence of media professionals on production genre and style. Students develop an understanding of the features of Australian fictional and non-fictional narratives in different media forms.

 

Areas of Study

Media Representations

Media forms in Production

Australian Stories

Assessment

Students will complete a range of outcomes and class work throughout each semester. There will also be an examination at the end of each semester.

Unit 2: Narrative across media forms

 

Fictional and non-fictional narratives are fundamental to the media and are found in all media forms. Media industries such as journalism and filmmaking are built upon the creation and distribution of narratives constructed in the form of a series of interconnected images and/or sounds and/or words, and using media codes and conventions. New media forms and technologies enable participants to design, create and distribute narratives in hybrid forms such as collaborative and user-generated content, which challenges the traditional understanding of narrative form and content. Narratives in new media forms have generated new modes of audience engagement, consumption and reception.

 

In this unit students further develop an understanding of the concept of narrative in media products and forms in different contexts. Narratives in both traditional and newer forms include film, television, sound, news, print, photography, games, and interactive digital forms. Students analyse the influence of developments in media technologies on individuals and society, examining in a range of media forms the effects of media convergence

and hybridisation on the design, production and distribution of narratives in the media and audience engagement, consumption and reception.

Students undertake production activities to design and create narratives that demonstrate an awareness of the structures and media codes and conventions appropriate to corresponding media forms.

 

Areas of Study

Narrative, style and genre

Narrative in production

Australian Stories

Assessment

Students will complete a range of outcomes and class work throughout each semester. There will also be an examination at the end of each semester.

 

Weblinks: