Yr 8 Media Arts

Welcome to Year 8 Media Arts 

We interact with media on a daily basis - watching YouTube, updating Instagram or listening to the radio on in the car. We make choices about media, and media communicates ideas to us. It is useful to think about and explore how media works, so that you can become an intelligent consumer and producer of media. 

The Media Arts curriculum is built around the two interrelated strands, Responding and Making.  This means we will spend some of our time studying media that other people have made, and some of our time making our own media.

The course is divided up into two modules; each runs for one term.  

In our first term, we will watch a Tim Burton film called Big Fish, and write an analysis of the film.  Then we'll edit a road movie using Hollywood filmmaking software called DaVinci Resolve.

In our second term, we will create a futuristic composite of a Woman who wakes up in space, by manipulating images and media components in state of the art VFX software, Fusion.   We will also study framing and composition in photographs, and learn to take better pictures.  We'll also learn how to make a collage of our best pictures, using professional photo editing software called Adobe Photoshop.

We are pleased you have chosen this course and believe you will achieve a high degree of satisfaction from pursuing Media here at Swan Christian College. 

See Year 8 Media Arts Judging Standards here.

The modules below can be tweaked according to time available etc.

1. Tim Burton Study - 6-8 hrs

2. Editing A Professionally Shot Video - 10-12 hrs

3. Heads-Up Display VFX - 10-12 hrs

4. Zombie Composition - 10-12 hrs

5. Photo Montage - 6-8 hrs