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Unit 3: Media art

15 dot points, in syllabus order. Each dot point has a focused answer, with exam-style questions and worked answers where available.

How do editing, sound design, grading and refinement in post-production shape raw footage into a finished media artwork?

Apply post-production skills, including editing, sound design and grading, to refine raw material into a finished media artwork that realises the intention

WACE Year 12 Media Production and Analysis Unit 3 detail on post-production. Editing for meaning and rhythm, sound design and mixing, colour grading, titles, and the refinement process that realises the intention of a media artwork.

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How does thorough pre-production planning translate an intention into a workable plan for an original media artwork?

Apply pre-production skills, including concept, treatment, script, storyboard and scheduling, to plan an original media artwork for a target audience

WACE Year 12 Media Production and Analysis Unit 3 detail on pre-production. Concept, treatment, scriptwriting, storyboard, shot lists, scheduling and resource planning that turn an intention into a workable plan for a media artwork.

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How do production roles, technical craft and safe working practice combine to capture a media artwork as planned?

Apply production skills, fulfilling specific roles and using technologies safely and creatively, to capture an original media artwork

WACE Year 12 Media Production and Analysis Unit 3 detail on the production phase. Production roles, camera and sound technique, lighting setup, directing, health and safety, and capturing usable footage that matches the plan.

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How does a media artist consider audience while planning, producing and refining an original media artwork?

Apply pre-production, production and post-production skills to create a media artwork that communicates intention to a target audience

Production skills and audience. Pre-production planning, production craft, post-production editing, target audience, and how a producer realises an intention in media art.

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How does a producer develop a recognisable aesthetic and personal style that marks them as an artist in media art?

Analyse how aesthetics and a recognisable personal style position the producer as an artist and shape audience response in media art

WACE Year 12 Media Production and Analysis Unit 3 detail on aesthetics. How recurring code choices form a personal style and aesthetic, the producer as auteur and artist, and how aesthetics shape audience response in media art.

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How do mainstream and niche audiences interpret media art differently according to their context, values and experience?

Analyse how audiences interpret and respond to media art according to context, values and experience, including mainstream and niche audiences

WACE Year 12 Media Production and Analysis Unit 3 detail on audience. How mainstream and niche audiences interpret media art, the role of context and values, preferred and alternative readings, and audience pleasure and engagement.

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How do producers use, blend and subvert genre conventions to position audiences and construct meaning in media art?

Analyse how genre conventions are used, hybridised and subverted to construct meaning and shape audience expectation in media art

WACE Year 12 Media Production and Analysis Unit 3 detail on genre. How genre is a set of predictable codes, conventions and narratives, how producers blend and subvert it, and how genre shapes audience expectation in media art.

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How do media artists manipulate narrative elements and structures to challenge an audience's expectations?

Analyse how narrative elements and structures are manipulated in media art to construct themes and challenge audience expectations

Narrative. Narrative elements, linear and non-linear structures, equilibrium and disruption, and how media artists manipulate them to build theme and challenge expectations.

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How do producers construct point of view and perspective to position the audience to share or judge a character's experience in media art?

Analyse how point of view and perspective are constructed through codes and structure to position the audience in media art

WACE Year 12 Media Production and Analysis Unit 3 detail on point of view. How camera, sound, narration and structure construct literal and attitudinal point of view to position the audience to align with or judge a character.

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How are people, places, events and ideas constructed in media art, and how can a producer challenge dominant representations?

Analyse how representations are constructed and how media art can reinforce or challenge dominant representations

Representation. How representations of people, places, events and ideas are constructed through selection and codes, dominant versus counter representations, and stereotyping.

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How do symbolic and audio codes construct meaning, atmosphere and theme in a media artwork beyond what the camera records?

Analyse how symbolic codes and audio codes are manipulated to construct meaning, atmosphere and theme in media art

WACE Year 12 Media Production and Analysis Unit 3 detail on symbolic and audio codes. Setting, colour, costume, props, body language, and diegetic and non-diegetic sound, music, silence and ambient sound used to construct meaning and atmosphere.

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How do camera, lighting and editing choices function as technical codes that construct meaning and mood in a media artwork?

Analyse how technical codes of camera, lighting and editing are manipulated to construct meaning, mood and aesthetic in media art

WACE Year 12 Media Production and Analysis Unit 3 detail on technical codes. How camera angle, shot size, movement, focus, lighting and editing are manipulated to construct mood, meaning and aesthetic in a media artwork.

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How does selection, emphasis and omission construct representations of people, places, events and ideas in media art?

Analyse how representations are constructed through the selection, emphasis and omission of reality, mediated by codes and conventions in media art

WACE Year 12 Media Production and Analysis Unit 3 detail on how representation is constructed. Selection, emphasis and omission, mediation, and the way codes make a constructed representation appear real or natural.

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How do producers combine technical, symbolic, written and audio codes to construct meaning in a media artwork?

Analyse how codes and conventions are manipulated to construct meaning, mood and themes in media art productions

Codes and conventions. Technical, symbolic, written and audio codes, genre conventions, and how producers manipulate them to construct mood, themes and meaning in media art.

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How does media art reinforce or challenge dominant representations and stereotypes of groups, places and ideas?

Evaluate how media art reinforces, negotiates or challenges dominant representations and stereotypes, and the effect on audiences

WACE Year 12 Media Production and Analysis Unit 3 detail on dominant representations. Stereotypes, dominant and counter representations, how media art reinforces or challenges them, and the effect on audience attitudes.

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