Media Unit 3
​Unit 3: Media narratives 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 media narratives. They consider the use of media codes and conventions to structure meaning, and how this construction is influenced by the social, cultural, ideological and institutional contexts of production, distribution, consumption and reception. Students assess how audiences from different periods of time and contexts are engaged by, consume and read narratives using appropriate media language. 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 non-fictional and fictional media products. Students use the pre-production stage of the media production process to design the production of a media product for a specified audience. They investigate a media form that aligns with their interests and intent, developing an understanding of the media codes and conventions appropriate to audience engagement, consumption and reception within the selected media form. They explore and experiment with media technologies to develop skills in their selected media form, reflecting on and documenting their progress. Students undertake pre-production processes appropriate to their selected media form and develop written and visual documentation 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/)