VCE Media provides students with the opportunity to analyse media concepts, forms and products in an informed and critical way. Students explore narratives, representations, technologies and production processes while examining how social, historical, political and cultural contexts influence the media and its role in society.
Students investigate how media codes and conventions communicate ideas, shape audience responses and influence meaning across traditional and contemporary media forms. They will integrate these understandings through the planning, design and production of their own media products using industry-standard production processes and technologies, while developing their analytical skills, critical and creative thinking, communication skills and technical knowledge.
In this unit, students explore how media representations are constructed across different media forms and contexts. They analyse how audiences engage with and interpret media products while investigating Australian fictional and non-fictional narratives, including works by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander creators. Students also create their own media representations using the media production process.
In this unit, students investigate how narratives are created through genre, style, media codes and conventions across both traditional and emerging media forms. They examine how developments in media technologies influence media production, distribution, and audience engagement. Students also analyse the impact of social media, streaming, online audiences, and media convergence while creating their own media narratives.
Students analyse a media narrative and explore how social, cultural, political, and historical contexts influence media production and audience readings. They research, experiment, and develop a detailed pre-production plan for their own media product.
Students produce, refine, and complete the media product planned in Unit 3. They also investigate media influence, audience agency, regulation, ethics, and the relationship between media institutions, governments, and audiences.
