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VCE Media

Subject Overview

Students examine how and why the media constructs and reflects reality and how audiences engage with, consume, read, create and produce media products.

Unit 1 & 2

In Unit 1 & 2 you will:

  • Investigate two media forms and identify how media codes and conventions are combined to construct media representations in each of these media forms
  • Conduct research and plan two media productions for two different media forms of your choice
  • Investigate the Australian media industry and identify the features of Australian stories
  • Investigate distinctive styles and genres of media creators in media narratives that they have produced
  • Research and plan a media product that reflects a specific style and genre for your chosen media form
  • Investigate how the media has changed over time

Unit 3 & 4

In Unit 3 & 4 you will:

  • Investigate the social, historical, institutional, cultural, economic and political factors that influence the construction and reception of media narratives, including one feature film
  • Conduct research and plan a media product for a media form of your choice
  • Research, plan, produce and evaluate two media experiments to develop required skills for your final media product
  • Produce a substantial final media product that realises the intention statement in your media production design
  • Investigate how audiences are controlled by and demonstrate agency with the media

Types of Assessment

  • Video essays and/or multimedia presentation.
  • Written responses
  • Media Production Design folios
  • Media experiments
  • Media products
  • Research report

Class Activities

  • View and study media texts including films
  • Experiment with different media forms including moving image, photography, podcast, print and digital

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