Scotch College

VCE: Media

Rationale

The study of media includes: media forms, such as audiovisual media, print-based media, and digital media technologies; media processes, such as scriptwriting and storyboarding, camera, lighting and microphone operation digital video and audio editing, digital imaging and manipulation; and the study of the media and its interrelationship with society and culture. This is achieved both by analysing and producing a range of media productions – documentaries, fictional narratives, animations, and music videos, advertising, news and current affairs programs, computer games, and websites. 

Structure 

Unit 1: Representation & Technologies of Representation 

This unit enables students to develop an understanding of the relationship between the media, technology and the representations present in media forms. Students develop practical and analytical skills, including developing an understanding of the contribution of codes and conventions to the creation of meaning in media products, the role and significance of selection processes in their construction, and the creative and cultural implications of new media technologies. 

Unit 2: Media Production & the Media Industry 

This unit enables students to develop an awareness of the specialist production stages and roles within the collaborative organization of media production. Students develop practical skills through undertaking assigned roles during their participation in specific stages of a media production and analyse issues concerning the stages and roles in the media production process. Students also develop an understanding of media industry issues and developments relating to production stages and roles and the broader framework within which Australian media organizations operate. 

Unit 3: Narrative & media Production Design 

This unit enables students to develop an understanding of the role of production and story elements in the narrative organization in fictional films. Students also develop practical skills through undertaking exercises related to aspects of the production process. They design a media production for a specific media form with the relevant specifications presented as a written planning document with visual representations.

 

Unit 4: Media Process, Social Values & Media Influence 

This unit enables students to further develop practical skills in the production of media products and to realise a production design. Students also analyse the ways in which media texts are shaped by social values in the representations and structure of a media text. The role and influence of the media is also critically analysed in this unit. 

Assessment 

Unit 1 & 2: Examination

Media Representations Analysis

Media Representations Production

New Media Technologies

Unit 3: School-Assessed Coursework 8 per cent

Unit 4: School-Assessed Coursework 12 per cent

Unit 3 and 4: School-Assessed Task: 35 per cent

Examination 45 per cent