Media Arts
Media Arts is the study of human communication through: film, photography, video, audio, computer digital arts, and interactive media. Creatively, students employ the elements of space, time, light, motion, color, and sound to express their perspectives, feelings, and ideas. Critically, you will learn to interpret and evaluate media within aesthetic, cultural and historical contexts to become more enlightened consumers and effective citizens.
Media Arts is aesthetic-based and uses elements and tools of current and emerging technologies to create works that express feelings and ideas. The act of creation is an essential part of thinking which in turn builds the notion that there are alternative approaches to traditional mass media. In order to learn the language and symbol systems of our current culture. We will work in different mediums to explore ideas.
Students are expected to know the following:
elements and principles of design
image development strategies
media technologies
a variety of image sources and genres
common vocabulary used in media arts
a range of materials, processes, and techniques
media production skills:
— pre-production
— production
— post-productionuse of symbols and metaphors to represent ideas
and perspectivesFirst Peoples worldviews and cross-cultural
perspectives, stories, and history as expressed through
media artslocal, national, global, and inter-cultural media artists
In this course we will explore the elements and principals of design through photography and video primarily. We will still do some hands on learning which will include some drawing and design work and an introduction to watercolour. Students will learn basic photoshop techniques, how to create a video slideshow in Canva and how to create a moving video in Clip Champ. We will also explore First Peoples artists through video.
