Wk 12: Technical and Symbolic Elements

This week looked at the different types of elements that create a story and reflected it on the Woody “Escape scene”. It is important to have certain elements within a shot because it means that we don’t have “dead space” (Jefferson, 2013). This looks at the use of the “Rule of Thirds” where you have straight vertical and horizontal lines that help photographers/director to take great shots which incorporates different things creating lines and vectors to frame the character or object (Jefferson, 2013). When students create a media artwork they must “use existing and emerging technologies as they explore the language of imagery, text and sound” (ACARA, 2013, p. 83). Having key concepts, elements and story principles help make the students understand what media arts is and how it is an important part of their lives and culture. Teaching technical and symbolic elements to students will take time and practice to make students confident and capable to create a meaningful and suspenseful media art work.

Sequenced still images of our creation using story principles

Zombies Attack!

                          

References

Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Authority Reporting Authority. (2013). Revised Draft Australian Curriculum: The Arts Foundation to Year 10 [PDF File]. Retrieved 18 May, 2013, from http://www.acara.edu.au/verve/_resources/Draft_Arts_Curriculum_22_February_2013.pdf

Jefferson, M. (2103, May 20). Creative Arts Tutorial 11 Wk 12. Unpublished lecture notes, University of Sydney, Australia.

Wk 11: Story Principles in Media Arts

Within this workshop we looked at several things that represented media arts like using “story principles” and genre. We explored a clip from ‘Toy Story 3’ about ‘Woody’ the main toy character who is trying to escape from a crazy child care. This type of scene is called “The Great Escape” (Jefferson, 2013) which is a genre and a story principle as well. According to Amelio’s (1979) research, it shows us that studying genre in film means you must analyse “common ideas, themes and motifs” (p. 47) that create the character to express the narrative. Students learning about genre/story principles mean that they can understand how to create it themselves by incorporating “structure, stakes, obstacles, and action reaction” (Jefferson, 2013). This means understanding and viewing the type of story you want first and then incorporating the different elements needed within that genre. When teaching story principles and genre to students, it means having structure/scaffolding within the activity to have maximum experience for the students learning.

References

Amelio, R. J. (1979). American Genre Film: Teaching Popular Movies. The English Journal, 65(3), P. 47-50.

Jefferson, M. (2103, May 20). Creative Arts Tutorial 11 Wk 12. Unpublished lecture notes, University of Sydney, Australia.

Video 1 https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=9gdJU-bK8Us

Wk 10 Media Arts: Intro into Media Arts

Media arts play a major role with all the key strands in creative arts. Making and responding help teachers to understand where they must go to teach media arts and this includes the 5 key concepts which are, “representation, languages, technologies, audience and institutions” (ACARA, 2013, p. 84). Within this workshop we had a discussion about what we knew of media arts. Using drama as a stimulus, we were split into groups and told to represent one of the 5 key concepts. We represented “institutions” in a freeze-frame picture. It was hard to represent because of the lack of background knowledge we had, which leads into students, learning about media arts for the first time. Students must “explore, view, analyse, and participate in media arts” (ACARA, 2013, p. 84) so they can acquire “skills and processes” to help them to learn how to “reflect critically” on theirs and others work. Teaching media arts acquires the teacher to understand media arts and this means learning new things.

My favourite place to have fun, taken in week 10.
One word to describe St Johns Oval is "FUN".

Reference

Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Authority Reporting Authority. (2013). Revised Draft Australian Curriculum: The Arts Foundation to Year 10 [PDF File]. Retrieved 18 May, 2013, from http://www.acara.edu.au/verve/_resources/Draft_Arts_Curriculum_22_February_2013.pdf