Yr 9 Media Arts

Welcome to Year 9 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.  Often both Responding and Making will be incorporated into a single learing module, so, in the second module we will watch and study existing music videos, study some music video techniques, then plan and make our own music video.

The course draws from a growing list of modules, which you can see further down this page.

1. In our first term, we will be studying and creating advertisements - see Module 1, below.

2. In Term 2, students will edit a trailer for a cinema film, and make a short documentary film - see Modules 3 & 4 below.

3. In our third term, students will study a Tim Burton film, Beetlejuice, script a 1 minute film and create a storyboard for that film - see Modules 9, 5 & 6.

4. In our Term 4 students will produce the short film that they prepared for in Term 3 - see Module 8.

See Year 9 Media Arts Judging Standards here.

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

1. Creating Advertisements - 16-18 hrs

2. Making Music Videos - 16-18 hrs

3. Editing an Opening Sequence or Trailer - 10-12 hrs

4. Producing a Short Documentary - 8-10 hrs

5. Script for a 1 minute film - 6-8 hrs

6. Creating a Lookbook for a 1 minute film - 10-12 hrs

7. Shooting and Editing a Conversation - 6-8 hrs

8. Producing a Short Film - 10-12 hrs

9. Beetlejuice - 6-8 hrs

10. Edward Scissorhands - 6-8 hrs