VCE Unit 4 AoS 2:
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Learning Sequence week 1
Area of Study 2: Agency and Control in the Media
Outcome 2 On completion of this unit the student should be able to discuss issues of agency and control in the relationship between the media and its audience. Key knowledge/ skills:
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LESSON 2
Big idea/ILO topic: introduction to area of study:
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Student class Activity:
(20 mins allocated) Complete activity 11.2 and 11.5 question about free-to air -tv. (Student as audience and as analyst). Homework: Complete 11.5 nature of content and services. Textbook: Media Reframed: VCE units 1-4, (2018) read chapter 11 |
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Key resources:
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and how regulation bodies and audience respond to content on this platforms.
law and and policies of Australian government (SD 2017, P. 25).
dynamic and changing relationship between media and its audiences” as well as the ethical and legal issues in production/distribution (SD 2017, p.
25).
Description:YouTube has its own set of guidelines including requirements for acceptable content as well as content that may attract advertising.
Links to SD 2017 “the way media is used by globalised institutions, governments and the individual” (p. 25) Appropriate to discuss with Christ church
shootings.
- Media Reframed: VCE units 1-4, (2018) read all of chapter 11 and activity listed below accompanying worksheets
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- Screen Australia, 2018, What’s the deal with Video on demand fact finders, www.screen.australia. Gov/research.com retrieved 5thaugust 2019. Description:formal code for screening content on Australian free to air television channels. Relates on-demand Television and how regulation bodies and audience respond to content on this platform. Addresses Ao2 SD 2017 outcomes; changing relationship between media and audience and way media is used..
- Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA), 2018,Free Tv Australia, Commercial Television Industry Code of Practice, December 2015, retrieved 27thJuly 2019, https://www.freetv.com.au/what-we-do/industry-standards/
and how regulation bodies and audience respond to content on this platforms.
- Australian Government, 2014, The Australian Government Guide to Regulation, The Commonwealth of Australia, Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet, retrieved 27thJuly 2019, <www.cuttingredtape.gov.au>
law and and policies of Australian government (SD 2017, P. 25).
- Booner F, “Recording reality on film and television”, in in Hall S, Evans J, Nixon S 2013, 2nded, Representations, Culture and Signifying practices, Sage Publications. (1997 First edition)
dynamic and changing relationship between media and its audiences” as well as the ethical and legal issues in production/distribution (SD 2017, p.
25).
- “New YouTube community guidelines strikes system”, retrieved 19thFeb 2019, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zgoF7HpB55g
Description:YouTube has its own set of guidelines including requirements for acceptable content as well as content that may attract advertising.
Links to SD 2017 “the way media is used by globalised institutions, governments and the individual” (p. 25) Appropriate to discuss with Christ church
shootings.
Resources for these lessons (available across the learning sequence) :
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Lesson 3 |
Big idea/ILO topic: media and change: how and what ways the media influencers engage audiences? Who regulates them?
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Student Activity
Do a timeline. Media and change; refer text book Textbook: Media Reframed: VCE units 1-4, (2018) chapter 11p. 196 activity |
Aos 2 learning outcomes and key knowledge/skills this lesson addresses:
- Discuss the extent of the influence of media and media audience
Key resources:
Textbook:
Media Reframed: VCE units 1-4, (2018)
chapter 11p. 196 activity
Description: Chapter 11 specifically relates to AOS2 and covers the key knowledge and key skills requirement listed in SD 2017
PowerPoint:
How Political ideology affects representation”, Representation and ideology , slide share, https://www.slideshare.net/marinaldodesouzalima/aula-03-sistemaoperacional?next_slideshow=1
Description:key Definitions regulation/self-regulation
agency, control. Passive/active audiences. Resource used to scaffold, layer students understand of political news reporting and the 24 news cycle. Ready for next lesson Week 5.Links to SD 2017 “the way media is used by globalised institutions, governments and the individual” (p. 25).
Media Reframed: VCE units 1-4, (2018)
chapter 11p. 196 activity
Description: Chapter 11 specifically relates to AOS2 and covers the key knowledge and key skills requirement listed in SD 2017
PowerPoint:
How Political ideology affects representation”, Representation and ideology , slide share, https://www.slideshare.net/marinaldodesouzalima/aula-03-sistemaoperacional?next_slideshow=1
Description:key Definitions regulation/self-regulation
agency, control. Passive/active audiences. Resource used to scaffold, layer students understand of political news reporting and the 24 news cycle. Ready for next lesson Week 5.Links to SD 2017 “the way media is used by globalised institutions, governments and the individual” (p. 25).
- Lamb B, 2013, Lesson Bucket, media communication theories, retrieved 9thJuly 2019, < https://lessonbucket.com/vce-media/units-3-4/agency-and-control/communication-theories/>
Download theories from Lessonbucket.com:
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Supporting resources
what considerations are needed in media control.
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media_reform_fact_sheet-overview_web_2017.pdf | |
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ADDITIONAL SUPPORT
Educational resource section
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
Information with local knowledge on art, media and events around Melbourne and Australia. Lesson ideas and current arts issues.
- https://fuse.education.vic.gov.au/Secondary
Fuse is Victorian government initiative for unified resource in media education - https://nofilmschool.com
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
Information with local knowledge on art, media and events around Melbourne and Australia. Lesson ideas and current arts issues.
- https://www.nfsa.gov.au/learning/educational-resources/film-australia-collection
National film and sound archives. Fantastic resource for teachers searching Australian content in film, television and multimedia.
“Every art communicates because it expresses. It enables us to share vividly and deeply in meanings…”
John Dewey, Art as Experience