​Resources for Teachers.
The topics and corresponding online lesson resource for students are shaped around VCCA media arts principles that the “Student learn as artist and audience and learn through making and responding” (VCAA). The content has been curated for teachers to teach and students to learn  Curated from a variety of resources, webpages, academic literature, teaching institutions and resource books .
LESSON RESOURCE LINK FOR STUDENTS 
YEARS 7-8 
​Topic 1: Language for the Screen: Film – respond and interpret
Topic 2:Filmmaking check list – media arts in practice 

LESSON RESOURCE LINK FOR STUDENTS 
YEARS 9-10
Unit Topic Year 10:
Language for the Screen: Representation of Teens in Film - respond and interpret
 'Making A Teen Short Film' - media arts in practice (VCAMAM042)(VCAMAR045)
​Educational Framework for Web Resource
The web resource tailors to the VCAA curriculum and their learning outcomes. The content, activities and assessments are derived from educational theories around learning and learning environments, specifically how it relates to the media arts and how high impact teaching strategies can be applied in the classroom. Theorists considered around media arts in context to the concept learning are; 
  • Literacy (visual literacy) with Freebody and Luke (1990) in regard to the decoding of texts
  • Embodied pedagogy within arts education and the socio-cognitive constructivist Vygotsky (1978),  Paiget (1955) , Rogers (1969), Maslow (1943)
  • The influence of Bloom’s taxonomy (1954), as revised by Anderson and Krathwohl (2001) in the stages of learning and devlopment.
  • The impacts on digital technology has been considered, to think about the 21st century classroom as addressed by Cooperstein & Kocevar-Weidinger (2004), Hargreaves (2004) and the ACEL 2007 international conference paper on 21st century pedagogy.

 Resources for Unit/Lesson Planning Per Topic

Year 7-8
Topic 1:  Language for The Screen - Film online lesson resource is about identifying film for YEAR 7 -8 ​as a cultural product and how viewpoints are conveyed through film addresses the VCAA Achievement standards:  “By end of year 8 students identify and analyse how representations of social values and viewpoints are portrayed in media artworks they make, distribute and view”. Bloom’s taxonomy stage of understanding has been used, as it is important to place the codes, conventions and symbols of cinema into a framework to help students analyse film as texts and help develop their skills to apply this knowledge to their own filmmaking, toward their emerging practice.
The resources associated with this topic is about addressing the “elements of media arts as being technical and symbolic” (ACARA, VCAA).
Topic 1: Language for the Screen: Film 
VCAA Respond and Interpret;
  1. Meaning in Film (cinematic language)
  2. Culture and Context (Values, beliefs, viewpoints – e.g. War films, indigenous film)
  3. Purpose and audience (form, genre theory)
  4. Constructing Reality, “representations and the symbolic”  (codes and conventions)
  5. Cinematography and Camera Techniques: 
    1. Shot sizes
    2. Framing
    3. Composition
    4. Depth of Filed
    5. Camera angles and movement
  6. Mise-en-scene –production design, costume design, props (how style, colour, texture, creates meaning)
  7. Lighting – techniques and visual styles
  8. Editing – shot by shot relationship of screen language (how it creates meaning)
  9. Sound design and music (how it creates meaning)​

TOPIC 1: Teachers Resource table print out
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Topic 2: Filmmaking check list
  1. Development: idea, pitch, concept, story
  2. Pre-production: Synopsis, script and treatment, storyboards, shot-list, design -art department and costumes, locations, recce, budget, production documents, casting, rehearsals, audience
  3. Production: equipment, Shoot-day requirements, location, sound recording, call sheets, crew roles and on-set protocols, safety reports
  4. Post-Production: Editing, grading, music and sound composition, distribution

TOPIC 2: Teachers Resource table print out
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Year 9-10 Unit Topics: Lessons and Resources

 Year 10: LANGUAGE FOR THE SCREEN ​          Respond and Interpret strand (VCAMAR045)
          Media Arts Practice strand (VCAMAM042)

STRUCTURE:

OVERIVIEW/ASSESSMENT MATERIAL
LESSON 1: Representation, stereotypes, identity and self
LESSON 2: Film Comparison analysis:
                   Mean Girls (2004)
                     Love, Simon (2018)
LESSON 3: Film Comparison analysis:
                   Looking for Alibrandi (2000)
                   Bend It Like Beckham (2001)
                   Beneath Clouds (2002)
LESSON 4: Quiz and 5-Shot sequence exercise
LESSON 5: Pre-production: planning, storyboarding
LESSON 6: Production: 'Making A Teen Short Film' 
​LESSON 7: Post-Production: Editing
LESSON 8: Finish film, evaluation and screening
EXHIBITION PAGE - Student film for assessment 

Assessment: Unit Plan

FORMATIVE 
Collaborative activities, class discussions, group interactions:
  • Student own Self-assessment of their contribution to the film production AND creative process. 20%
  • Feedback – teacher to student during unit and observations during assessment task completion. 20%
​          (Forms for student and teacher to complete)
          TOTAL: 40%
 
​SUMMATIVE
  • Technical and symbolic – teens in film. Zahoot Quiz 20%
  • 'Making a Teen' Short Film - Product and process mark 40%
          (Rubric to be used to grade).. 
          TOTAL: 60%
UNIT OVERVIEW:
In this unit students will analyse and evaluate how teens are represented in film. They will examine how social values and beliefs, codes and conventions contribute to construct the teenage character and their identity.
Students will look at their own sense of identity, relating to their personal life experiences to determine if their 'voice' is reflected in and through film. Lessons will analyse the technical and symbolic elements that contribute to the representation, construction of stereotypes and identity in film.
Students will integrate technical and symbolic elements into a three-minute group film (as part of an summative assessment). 
This unit is designed to be a personal and creative journey in order to reflect, analyse and create.
UNIT FOCUS AND CONTENT ​
  1. Identity and self 
  2. Representations – community and institutional context.
  3. Stereotypes – culture dependant and country dependant.
  4. Social beliefs and values reflected in film (film examples from Australia, America and Britain).
  5. Technical and symbolic elements: camera techniques, editing , sound , music, mise-en-scene - techniques that shape or manipulate teen representations in film including genre conventions.
  6. Ethical responsibilities in filmmaking and representations of teen characters in film.
  7. Story structures (including themes) – prior knowledge
  8. Genre conventions of films – prior knowledge
  9. Ethical responsibilities in filmmaking and representations
​UNIT TEACHERS RESOURCES: Teachers ToolKit 

Classroom management and testing apps
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Kahoot is a great resource for formative testing - fun game style quiz's are great for Year 7’s and 8’s: Find out what your students know! Or use at end of unit to confirm their knowledge.

https://create.kahoot.it/share/media-arts/49bae276-f8a7-4f02-a381-fff8027cfa6f
Google classrooms enables you to link to create a community. You can track each students attendance and communicate with them, share resources and enhance the learning process.

https://classroom.google.com/c/MzMwNTQzMjAzNzJa
Apple class room and student work app - You can track each students attendance and communicate with them, via iPad and Mac. Guide students through lessons and keep them focused on the task at hand. Can send and receive files with the entire class and individual students using AirDrop, or show student work on the big screen.
https://www.apple.com/education/teaching-tools/

Further Resources for Unit/Lesson Planning

Research literature  

Resources and papers on pedagogies, teaching and learning theories:
  1. Rethinking Pedagogy for a Digital Age: Designing for 21st Century Learning edited by Helen Beetham, Rhona Sharpe (2013), Routledge, New York.
  2. From “Process and Outcome Paradigms in Media Arts Pedagogy: chapter 9”. By Nancy E. Paterson.Academic paper discussing pedagogy for media arts teaching. How to apply process-based approach to outcomes in studio-based learning such as media arts classrooms, and practical activities.
    Great resource book for strategies and practices. Theoretical inside for teachers of media arts units.​​​
  3. 21st Century approach to learning and teaching: papers attached. 
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 Useful Databases of web link for assessment and activity options

         Educational resource section provide teacher references and questions for student learning. Section on “IDEAS –
         inside the   themes behind the screens’. ​​        ​ Filmmaking site with education and who to videos ​​         Access to information on lesson content  ​​        Australian media practicitioner webpage with insightful resources for teaching and learning.          Supporting materials for arts in Australia with information on exhibitions          Reference to contemporary artists and practitioners'          Information with local knowledge on art, media and events around Melbourne and Australia. Lesson ideas and current arts issues.​​​          Teaching guides, basic introduction and foundational skills videos

Download free Resources here

YEAR 7-8
Construction of Meaning 

​Storytelling resources

storytelling resource

glossary of terms

glossary and terms
construction_of_meaning_in_film.pdf
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storytelling_and_film.pdf
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storytelling_resource_filmeducation.pdf
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www.medienabc.org_page32_files_page32_6.pdf
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micro_film_form_a_basic_glossary_of_the.pdf
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Image and references - Image libraries


Foto.com is an extensive, easy to use  CC image repository which provides ‘ready to paste’ attribution information for use with the photographs.
Pixabay Image provides free public domain images. Check the usage terms of CC license before downloading.
Wikimedia Commons is a free media repository. Please check the type of CC license and its usage terms before downloading.
Wikipedia : Public domain images lists a large number of sources for images which lists a number of public domain images on the web. Users are responsible for checking the copyright status of images before using them.
Morgue File has free reference images. Please note that when a search is displayed, the tabs offering alternatives to the free photos on Morgue File are not free.
Source: EDCHAT®, Published on 17 Jul 2013
EDCHAT® is licensed to distribute the following content. Teachers TV content is an archive of old videos © Crown copyright.​
Fabulous resource demonstrating - Media in Practice

Media-Education-portal


​You tube channel - educational use

THERE IS A COMPILATION OF THE VIDEOS FOR EACH TOPIC AND BEST FOR MEDIA ARTS CURRICULUM.

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