Media syllabus, dot point by dot point
Every dot point in the WA Media syllabus, in syllabus order, with a focused answer for each. Open any dot point for the answer, exam-style questions and links to related points.
Unit 3: Media art
Unit overview →How do editing, sound design, grading and refinement in post-production shape raw footage into a finished media artwork?
How does thorough pre-production planning translate an intention into a workable plan for an original media artwork?
How do production roles, technical craft and safe working practice combine to capture a media artwork as planned?
How does a media artist consider audience while planning, producing and refining an original media artwork?
How does a producer develop a recognisable aesthetic and personal style that marks them as an artist in media art?
How do mainstream and niche audiences interpret media art differently according to their context, values and experience?
How do producers use, blend and subvert genre conventions to position audiences and construct meaning in media art?
How do media artists manipulate narrative elements and structures to challenge an audience's expectations?
How do producers construct point of view and perspective to position the audience to share or judge a character's experience in media art?
How are people, places, events and ideas constructed in media art, and how can a producer challenge dominant representations?
How do symbolic and audio codes construct meaning, atmosphere and theme in a media artwork beyond what the camera records?
How do camera, lighting and editing choices function as technical codes that construct meaning and mood in a media artwork?
How does selection, emphasis and omission construct representations of people, places, events and ideas in media art?
How do producers combine technical, symbolic, written and audio codes to construct meaning in a media artwork?
How does media art reinforce or challenge dominant representations and stereotypes of groups, places and ideas?
Unit 4: Power and persuasion
Unit overview →How do genre conventions and audience engagement strategies make persuasive media effective for a target audience?
How do ideology, values and bias shape the messages persuasive media construct, and how can audiences read them critically?
How do media ownership, concentration and funding shape which persuasive messages are produced and circulated?
How do persuasive media use codes, conventions and rhetorical techniques to position an audience toward a particular view?
How does the system of communication explain the way producers encode messages and audiences decode them in persuasive media?
How do the conventions of advertising, documentary and propaganda as genres shape the way persuasive media position audiences?
How do media institutions, their ownership and their commercial and regulatory contexts shape the persuasive messages audiences receive?
How do persuasive producers target audiences by values and attitudes, and how does this positioning reflect, challenge or shape what audiences believe?
How do regulation, classification and codes of practice control and constrain persuasive media, and where are their limits?
How do legal and ethical considerations shape what persuasive media producers may and should do?
How do you plan, produce and justify an original persuasive media production and its accompanying production statement?