Media Unit 3
​Unit 3: Media narratives, contexts and
pre-production
Assessment:
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Units 3 and 4 School-assessed Coursework: 20 per cent
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Units 3 and 4 School-assessed Task: 40 per cent
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End-of-year examination: 40 per cent.
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In this unit, students explore stories that circulate in society through a close analysis of a media narrative.
Narratives are defined as the depiction of a chain of events in a cause-and-effect relationship occurring in physical and/or virtual space and time in fictional and non-fictional media products. Students consider the use of codes and narrative conventions to structure meaning and explore the role these play in media narratives. Through the close analysis of a media narrative, students develop media language and terminology and a deeper understanding of how codes and narrative conventions are combined in a narrative. They study how social, historical, institutional, culture, economic and political contexts may influence the construction of media narratives and audience readings.
Through the study of a media narrative, students explore specific codes and narrative conventions and begin the process of research to support their understanding of how they can adopt and employ these techniques in their own works. They investigate a media form that aligns with their interests and intent, developing an understanding of the codes and narrative conventions appropriate to audience engagement, consumption and reception within the selected media form. Students use the pre-production stage of the media production process to design the production of a media product for a specified audience. They explore and experiment with media technologies to develop skills in their selected media form, and reflect on and document their progress. Students undertake pre-production planning appropriate to their selected media form and develop written and visual planning documents to support the production and post-production of a media product in Unit 4.
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The unit consists of three outcomes which see students complete:
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Director Alfred Hitchcock, on the set of Rear Window (1954) with actors James Stewart (L.B/Jeff) and Grace Kelly (Lisa).
"Rear Window is one of the most cassic psychological thrillers by the master of psychological thrillers..."
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(Source: https://art-sheep.com/20-rare-behind-the-scenes-photos-of-alfred-hitchcocks-rare-window/)