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Unit 3 AOS1 — Technologies
Unit 3 Technologies uses participation as its focus. Technologies are the tools and associated processes used to create, distribute and access moving-image media. Platform and format features can invite an audience to respond, add content or move between screens, but access can also be limited by infrastructure, cost, interface or location, including rural and remote contexts. The inquiry asks how technologies enable or constrain participation across different purposes and contexts.
Unit 3 AOS2 — Audiences
Audiences are individuals and groups for whom products are made and who make meaning as they use them. User-generated content can influence emerging trends, while mobile apps, interactive advertising, gaming, television, social media and virtual reality invite different forms of participation. Analyse the target audience, platform requirements and context of use: who has access, why the product is used, how meaning is made and how audiences appropriate or adapt it.
Unit 3 AOS3 — Institutions
Institutions are the organisations and people whose operational practices enable or constrain production and use. Citizen journalism, community media and online content creation show that participation is shaped by social, political and economic conditions. Consumption, profitability, market access and regulation affect whose work is produced, distributed and seen, including the institutional participation of diverse individuals and cultural groups such as First Nations peoples.
Unit 4 AOS1 — Technologies
Unit 4 Technologies shifts the focus to artistry: technologies, representations and languages can express, explore and question artistic identity. Historical movements such as French New Wave, German expressionism, Italian Neorealism, Soviet Montage and Surrealism demonstrate conventional and unconventional technological choices. A distinct style can also emerge through recurring technical codes and conventions associated with an auteur or maker.
Unit 4 AOS2 — Representations
Representations are constructions of people, places, events, ideas and emotions that create meaning. They are shaped by social, cultural and economic contexts and can form, reflect or reform identity. Read visual and aural choices as representational practices, including the work of Aboriginal artists and/or Torres Strait Islander artists with appropriate cultural care. The key question is how media artists portray what the audience is invited to understand.
Unit 4 AOS3 — Languages
Languages are systems of signs and symbols organised through codes and conventions to create meaning. Symbolic codes, technical codes, genre conventions, editing, sound, mise en scène and performance can operate together within an aesthetic or stylistic practice. Compare how media language works across historical and contemporary, Australian and international, commercial and non-commercial, independent and mainstream contexts, without treating one context as automatically more authentic.
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