Y12 MPA ATAR

• Discuss the impact of personal expression

• Discuss the use of lighting and colour

• Discuss narrative style and aesthetics

• Analyse the representation of gender

• Analyse the use of audio

• Analyse the impact of setting

• Discuss how selection, emphasis or omission are used for effect

• Discuss how media aesthetics are constructed

• Discuss the artistic benefit of manipulating chronological order in media work

• Discuss how media work is shaped by its audience and production context

• Analyse the issues faced by non-commercial media in attempting to reach a mainstream audience

• Discuss how producers of media work use personal expression to communicate their own values

• Analyse how the representation of a particular group is impacted by the context in which it is produced

• Discuss the manipulation of narrative structure

• Analyse the use of persuasive techniques

• Analyse the construction of a character

• Analyse how a topic is represented

• Discuss the techniques used to create a media work

• Discuss the representation of culture

• Analyse how an auteur’s work is influenced by changing audiences and expectations

• Compare the media aesthetics of media work from different cultural or production contexts

• Analyse the impact of media trends on mainstream media institutions

• Analyse how agenda-setting techniques are used to construct perceptions of issues or topics

Discuss the impact of media trends

Analyse how the context of the audience can affect its interpretation of media work

Analyse how codes are used to challenge an audience

Discuss the representation of values

Discuss how aesthetics are constructed

Analyse how a media works challenges audience values

Analyse the use of symbolic codes

Discuss how independent media productions reflect social or political trends

Discuss how aesthetic qualities in media productions appeal to niche audiences

Discuss how the audiences’ expectations are met

Discuss how the media work establishes narrative

Discuss the aesthetic conventions in media

Discuss the construction of political comment

Discuss the portrayal of cultural groups

Discuss how artistic style is used to appeal to audiences

Discuss how a media work represents a cultural context

Discuss how personal expression impacts the aesthetics in media work

Analyse how media work is used for political or social comment

Analyse how the cultural context of production shapes media work

Analyse how the codes and conventions are used to engage audience interest

Examine how a media work reflects social, historical or political comment

Analyse how lighting has been used to enhance media work

Discuss how setting establishes the context in a media work

Discuss how an audience makes meaning of media work

Analyse the purpose of a media work

Evaluate how regulation or censorship in the media impacts on media content