VCE Media Units 3&4 Notes

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1. Symbolic, technical, written and audio codes: how each carries meaning3 · Unit 3 AOS1 — Narratives and their contexts

   Media codes

2. Story and plot, structure, character, setting and point of view in media narratives3 · Unit 3 AOS1 — Narratives and their contexts

   Narrative conventions

3. How audiences engage with, consume and read a media narrative3 · Unit 3 AOS1 — Narratives and their contexts

   Audience engagement

4. Social, historical, institutional, cultural, economic and political contexts3 · Unit 3 AOS1 — Narratives and their contexts

   Contexts of production

5. How representations reflect or challenge the views and values of a context3 · Unit 3 AOS1 — Narratives and their contexts

   Representations, views and values

6. Methods for generating and testing ideas for a media production3 · Unit 3 AOS2 — Research, development and experimentation

   Developing ideas

7. Researching form, genre, style and practitioners to inform a production3 · Unit 3 AOS2 — Research, development and experimentation

   Researching a media form

8. Designing, running and documenting skill-development experiments3 · Unit 3 AOS2 — Research, development and experimentation

   Production experiments

9. Defining production intention and specifying the target audience3 · Unit 3 AOS3 — Pre-production planning

   Intention and audience

10. Storyboards, shot lists, layouts, floor plans and mood boards3 · Unit 3 AOS3 — Pre-production planning

    Visual planning documents

11. Scripts, treatments, schedules, roles, tasks and timelines3 · Unit 3 AOS3 — Pre-production planning

    Written planning documents

12. Realising pre-production plans through the production stage4 · Unit 4 AOS1 — Media production

    Production processes

13. Editing, layering and manipulating material to resolve a product4 · Unit 4 AOS1 — Media production

    Post-production and refinement

14. Using feedback and personal reflection to refine and resolve a product4 · Unit 4 AOS1 — Media production

    Feedback and reflection

15. How audiences act, share and exert power in the contemporary landscape4 · Unit 4 AOS2 — Agency and control in the media

    Audience agency

16. Arguments and evidence for the media's influence over audiences4 · Unit 4 AOS2 — Agency and control in the media

    Media influence

17. How platforms, governments and individuals use the media across borders4 · Unit 4 AOS2 — Agency and control in the media

    Globalised media institutions

18. Australian laws, policies, regulatory bodies and classification4 · Unit 4 AOS2 — Agency and control in the media

    Regulation in Australia

19. Industry self-regulation, codes of practice and their limits4 · Unit 4 AOS2 — Agency and control in the media

    Self-regulation and codes of conduct

20. Privacy, surveillance capitalism, data harvesting, copyright and defamation4 · Unit 4 AOS2 — Agency and control in the media

    Ethical and legal issues