Media Arts 8 aka Computers 8
Description:
To understand the components of media and how they are used to influence the audience observing various forms of media.
Content:
The Big Ideas that you need to be able understand are as follows:
The Big Ideas will be developed by considering the following topics, which will be covered in various degrees of detail over the course.
- Design can be responsive to identified needs.
- Complex tasks require the acquisition of additional skills.
- Complex tasks may require multiple tools and technologies.
The Big Ideas will be developed by considering the following topics, which will be covered in various degrees of detail over the course.
- digital and non-digital media technologies, their distinguishing characteristics, and their uses, including layout and design, graphics and images, and video production techniques for using images, sounds, and text to represent characterizations and points of view of people, including themselves, as well as settings and ideas
- story principles and genre conventions
- media technologies and techniques to shape space, time, movement, and lighting within images, sounds, and text for specific purposes
- processes for manipulating and testing digital media data
- issues in ethical media practices, including cultural appropriation, moral copyright, reproduction, and privacy
- elements of media arts used to communicate meaning influences of digital media, including on communication and self-expression
Notes and Worksheets
Intro Lessons
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Unit 1: Digital and Non-Digital Media
Notes and Survey Results
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Assignments and Worksheets
Assignments:
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PLOs: #1 & 2
Unit 2: Billboards
Notes and Survey Results
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Assignments and Worksheets*
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In-Class assignment:
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PLOs: #1 & 6
Unit 3: Digital Media and Self Expression
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PLOs: #1, 5 & 6
Unit 4: Analyzing Videos
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Analyzing Videos Assignment |
PLOs: #1 & 3
Unit 5: Testing and Manipulation Digital Media
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PLOs: #1 & 4
Unit 6: Websites (Coding and Ethics)
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FINAL PROJECT
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PLOs: #1 through 6
IRP
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Media Arts 8 IRP: description located on pages 15 and 19
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