Course topics.

Try this with Media

1. Compare the topic list with the current course outline from your school.
2. Pick a topic you can partly explain and identify the exact part you want to work through.
3. Bring one example of the kind of question or task your school uses.

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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