Media Reframed VCE Units 1-4, 2nd edition

Table of contents :
Prelims
CHAPTER 00 Study specifications
0.1 Study specifications used in VCE Media
UNIT 1 MEDIA FORMS, REPRESENTATIONS AND AUSTRALIAN STORIES
CHAPTER 1 AREA OF STUDY 1 MEDIA REPRESENTATIONS
1.1 Introduction: What are media representations?
1.2 Purpose of representations
1.3 Construction of representations
1.4 Interpretation of representations
1.5 Representations of individuals
1.6 Changing representations of females
1.7 Representation of identity and self
CHAPTER 2 AREA OF STUDY 2 MEDIA FORMS IN PRODUCTION
2.1 Introduction: Creating your first VCE media product
2.2 Understanding audience
2.3 Pre-production process
2.4 Practical tasks
2.5 Submission and Statement of Outcome
CHAPTER 3 AREA OF STUDY 3 AUSTRALIAN STORIES
3.1 Introduction: What are Australian stories?
3.2 A short history of the Australian story
3.3 The Australian story
3.4 First Nations voices
3.5 Making Australian stories
3. 6 Evolving Australian audiences
UNIT 2 NARRATIVE ACROSS MEDIA FORMS
CHAPTER 4 AREA OF STUDY 1 NARRATIVE, STYLE AND GENRE
4.1 Introduction: What is the purpose of narratives?
4.2 Storytelling conventions
4.3 Genre conventions
4.4 What is style?
4.5 Historical and cultural context, the construction of narratives and using and subverting genre
4.6 How media creators engage audiences
4.7 The influence of narratives on audiences
4.8 Manipulating media codes and conventions in the construction of narratives
4.9 The development and communication of a distinctive style: Assessment studies
CHAPTER 5 AREA OF STUDY 2 NARRATIVES IN PRODUCTION
5.1 Introduction: Creating your first VCE media narrative
5.2 Pre-production research
5.3 Pre-production story development
5.4 Pre-production Statement of Intention
5.5 The production stage
5.6 Post-production
5.7 Methods of distribution
5.8 Statement of Outcome
CHAPTER 6 AREA OF STUDY 3 MEDIA AND CHANGE
6.1 Introduction: The Fourth Industrial Revolution
6.2 Characteristics of new media technologies
6.3 Characteristics of new media audiences
6.4 How audiences interact and engage with new media forms
6.5 How technological developments and other factors change the media
6.6 Assessment task: Social, ethical and legal issues in the media industry
UNIT 3 Media forms, narratives, contexts and pre-production
CHAPTER 7 AREA OF STUDY 1 NARRATIVES AND THEIR CONTEXTS
7.1 Introduction: The perpetual significance of media narratives
7.2 How media narratives are constructed in different media forms
7.3 How audiences engage with, consume and read media narratives
7.4 How media codes and conventions convey meaning
7.5 Media narrative case studies
CHAPTER 8 AREA OF STUDY 2 RESEARCH, DEVELOPMENT AND EXPERIMENTATION
8.1 Introduction: Conducting production experiments
8.2 Brainstorming and gathering knowledge
8.3 Researching
8.4 Documenting and presenting your research
8.5 The exercises, presenting and reflecting
CHAPTER 9 AREA OF STUDY 3 PRE-PRODUCTION PLANNING
9.1 Introduction: Planning for success!
9.2 Clarifying your intention and researching your audience
9.3 Preparing your production
9.4 Presenting your production design
9.5 Planning your production
UNIT 4 MEDIA PRODUCTION; AGENCY AND CONTROL IN AND OF THE MEDIA
CHAPTER 10 AREA OF STUDY 1 MEDIA PRODUCTION
10.1 Introduction: Executing your production plan!
10.2 Production checklists
10.3 Production design annotation
10.4 Rehearsals
10.5 Post-production checklist
10.6 Testing and feedback
10.7 The Statement of Outcome
CHAPTER 11 AREA OF STUDY 2 AGENCY AND CONTROL IN MEDIA
11.1 Introduction: What is agency and control?
11.2 A changing relationship: Media and audiences
11.3 Explaining contemporary media influence and audience agency
11.4 The influence of media and audiences
11.5 How media is used by different stakeholders
11.6 Regulating media and audiences in Australia
11.7 Issues of regulation and control of the media
11.8 Ethical and legal issues in the media
Glossary
Permissions acknowledgements
CHAPTER 3 Australian stories
CHAPTER 6 Media and change
CHAPTER 11 Agency and control in media
Endnotes