Years 3 and 4
The Arts: Media Arts
Above satisfactory
Portfolio summary
This portfolio of student work shows that the student can describe a film trailer and discuss some of the elements and processes that they use to
communicate to an audience (WS1). The student can discuss how they collaborate with others (WS1).
They can use a storyboard to detail their considerations in the making of a media artwork as well as to demonstrate how they used the principles of time,
space and technologies to achieve it (WS2).
Work sample 1:
Convict video
Work sample summary
Students studied convicts as a part of a History and Drama unit. They created a trailer for an imagined film about the key events in the life of a convict. The
trailer was based on a case study of a real convict that was used for research in History and re-enactment in Drama. It required four scenes: committing a
crime, a courtroom, transportation’ and life in New South Wales.
Through the creation of their artwork, students developed an understanding of how a film is made using a storyboard and the editing process to communicate
a cohesive story to an audience, as well as how historical characters are portrayed.
Students also developed an understanding of marketing a film to an audience through a trailer. They worked in small groups, led by a student director, to
create a script and design a storyboard. These were then used to film and combine other technical aspects such as editing and sound effects to complete
their artwork. Students used the iMovie Trailer app to manipulate their images and text.
Years 3 and 4 subject achievement standard
The parts of the achievement standard targeted in the assessment task are highlighted.
By the end of Year 4, students describe and discuss similarities and differences between media artworks they make and view. They discuss how and why
they and others use images, sound and text to make and present media artworks.
Students collaborate to use story principles, time, space and technologies to make and share media artworks that communicate ideas to an audience.
Years 3 and 4 learning area achievement standard
The parts of the achievement standard targeted in the assessment task are highlighted.
By the end of Year 4, students describe and discuss similarities and differences between artworks they make and those to which they respond. They discuss
how they and others organise the elements and processes in artworks.
Students collaborate to plan and make artworks that communicate ideas.
Annotated artwork
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Annotated artwork
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Response
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Artwork display
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Work sample 2:
Machinima: Rowan of Rin
Work sample summary
As a summative task in an English and Media Arts unit, students were required to recreate aspects of one of the novels in the Rowan of Rin series by Emily
Rodda, using the digital game Minecraft and the production technique of machinima, which involves telling a narrative within a game environment by using it
to animate key scenes. The students worked in teams to design key locations from the novel using Minecraft. They then created a cartoon storyboard for their
production, indicating how they would use those locations to recreate the story. This was followed by a phase in which the students used their avatars to
perform the story within the game. The animation was recorded and the footage was then edited using video editing software. Sound effects and dialogue
were added to complete the story in post-production.
Years 3 and 4 subject achievement standard
The parts of the achievement standard targeted in the assessment task are highlighted.
By the end of Year 4, students describe and discuss similarities and differences between media artworks they make and view. They discuss how and why
they and others use images, sound and text to make and present media artworks.
Students collaborate to use story principles, time, space and technologies to make and share media artworks that communicate ideas to an audience.
Years 3 and 4 learning area achievement standard
The parts of the achievement standard targeted in the assessment task are highlighted.
By the end of Year 4, students describe and discuss similarities and differences between artworks they make and those to which they respond. They discuss
how they and others organise the elements and processes in artworks.
Students collaborate to plan and make artworks that communicate ideas.
Annotated artwork
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Copyright
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Storyboard
Annotations
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Annotation 1
Begins narrative with establishing
shot, indicating location
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Annotation 2
Establishes narrative problem and
challenge via speech bubbles
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2
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Annotations
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2
3
Annotation 1
Provides insight into character
development via dialogue summary
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4
Annotation 2
Shows setting for key scene for
narrative development
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5
Annotation 3
Builds sets in Minecraft and uses
them to convey the narrative via screen
captures presented in storyboard form
3
6
Annotation 4
Indicates type of shot to be used to
reinforce conflict
4
Annotation 5
Indicates scene transition via a
thought bubble
5
Annotation 6
Uses a wall to visually symbolise
the challenge faced by the main characters
6
Annotations
1
1
Annotation 1
Indicates representative dialogue
Annotation 2
Uses a range of different types of
shots to convey the narrative
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2
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Annotations
Annotation 1
Uses
conventional
narrative
structure – the hero overcomes the
challenge
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2
Annotation 2
Indicates key climactic scene
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2
Artwork display
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The Arts: Media Arts
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