WHAT IS MEDIA?The media has the power to influence the way people spend their time, and the way they perceive themselves and others. It is a platform for the creation and exchange of personal, social, cultural, national and global identities. The media entertain, educate, inform and provide channels of communication.
From the 2012 VCAA VCE Media Study Design: The media is a diverse, dynamic and evolving collection of forms used to inform, communicate with and connect people. All in all, the media is one powerful beast of information and entertainment. And that’s where we come in … Audiences (that’s us!) play a big role in the media, as they have the power to shape media products and the ways in which they are developed, constructed, distributed and consumed. We also have the ability to critically analyse and discuss media and decide on our own individual and collective opinions about the media. In our study of media, we will;
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Course Outline
The Year 9 Media course will include the following areas of practical and theoretical study across the semester;
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