Media Arts

I found the presentation on power point Animation very informative I think being able to use animation in the classroom might enhance the use of power point for explicit teaching. I got a lot from this week's tutorial as I had never really thought about teaching media arts in the classroom and how valuable it can be.    

Power Point Animation I made after the lecture

Students are becoming more experienced and capable with using Information and Communication Technology (ICT) and it is becoming a more prevalent process for teaching across the curriculum (Bennett, 2006).

The Australian Curriculum (ACARA) identifies that primary students are required to explore, interpret, discuss, develop and respond to media artworks (Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority, 2014). Media is around us all the time, so I think it is important our students understand and can interpret appropriately. Media art enhances creativity and critical thinking of media and encourages students to learn about language, technology, ideal audiences and various ways of representing art in the media (Dezuanni, & Raphael, 2012).

Leah

 

I love the rocket, Leah. I have attached my animation experiment too. Media arts really is the embodiment of a cross curriculum subject. I can see students making public service announcements for HPE, recording performances in dance and drama for reflection and doing English activities in video format. It could even be suggested that video is better than writing because not only do students need to learn the information, but they also need to consider how to present the information as video conveys mood, tone and feeling (Greenwood, 2003).

Media in our society is central to students’ social and cultural participation (Dezuanni and Raphael, 2012) and they now more than ever have the opportunity to be the writers of online media publications (Dezuanni and Levido, 2011), so it is important that they consider what constitutes responsible publishing and the ethical implications. To do this students need to be given opportunities to create meaningful media. Gude (2008) considers the making of meaning to be the purpose of all Arts education (cited in Evans, 2011).

One way to do this is by asking students to identify shot types by collecting magazine photos and exploring what these shot types represent (Dezuanni and Raphael, 2012), but I wondered if comics would not be a more effective way as they have a storyboard format and often change shot type with each picture to emphasise action. Storyboards are a fundamental process in media arts as they allow students to think and plan cinematically and to visualise the end product (Dezuanni and Raphael, 2012).

I also wondered if media arts was a more effective format for self portraits as it can include drawings, photos, videos, sound, music and text which would take students away from literal representations. One fun way to introduce the concept of self portraits is through Mr Picassohead.

Zoe

What a great resource Mr Picassohead is, especially for students to complete an abstract self-portrait. I have experimented and come up with the following self-portrait. I think this would be a good introduction to teaching media arts within the classroom.    

Leah

Here is another animation I created through PowerPoint by taking photos. I was trying to replicate a 1 second shot animation with a video camera. It is also watermarked because I was using a free conversion program.

Zoe