Year 12 · VCE / Media
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Try this with Media
- Close your notes and write the main idea in two sentences from memory.
- Reopen the source and correct the first mistake or omission you find.
- Add one example and one question to test whether you can apply the idea.
Topics in the resource inventory
- Symbolic, technical, written and audio codes: how each carries meaning
- Story and plot, structure, character, setting and point of view in media narratives
- How audiences engage with, consume and read a media narrative
- Social, historical, institutional, cultural, economic and political contexts
- How representations reflect or challenge the views and values of a context
- Methods for generating and testing ideas for a media production
- Researching form, genre, style and practitioners to inform a production
- Designing, running and documenting skill-development experiments
- Defining production intention and specifying the target audience
- Storyboards, shot lists, layouts, floor plans and mood boards
- Scripts, treatments, schedules, roles, tasks and timelines
- Realising pre-production plans through the production stage
- Editing, layering and manipulating material to resolve a product
- Using feedback and personal reflection to refine and resolve a product
- How audiences act, share and exert power in the contemporary landscape
- Arguments and evidence for the media's influence over audiences
- How platforms, governments and individuals use the media across borders
- Australian laws, policies, regulatory bodies and classification
- Industry self-regulation, codes of practice and their limits
- Privacy, surveillance capitalism, data harvesting, copyright and defamation
Resource inventory inspected 4 November 2026. The main ATARMAXXING study platform is separate from tutoring. Topic labels show what was found, not a guarantee of complete curriculum coverage or tutor availability.
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