Year 9 Media Arts

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Year 9 Media Arts

Subject Description

Subject Description

What do Superman, Spiderman and the Flash have in common? They are all superheroes on a quest to make Earth a better place. Superhero films have many things in common like origin stories, secret identities and moral dilemmas. In media, we call these storytelling devices tropes. In Year 9 Media Arts, students will study the concepts of story forms and conventions through the study of the superhero and live action genres. The culminating project will be a short superhero film with a focus on an environmental hero who is on a quest to make the Earth a better place.

Concept

Clean and Green Futures.

Structure

Unit 1: Environmental Superhero

The superhero and action and adventure genre
Genre conventions (tropes)
Storyforms and the 3 act structure
Blocking and staging a film set
Plot-structure mapping and analysis
Three-column scripting or storyboards
Multiple cameras to capture dialogue between characters
Adjusting the tempo and timing of cuts in the editing room to enhance drama and tension on-screen
Controlling time with film ramping, jump cuts, linear narrative and non-linear narrative
Green screening and chroma keying