AE17.MED.3.R.A
Perceive
Perceive
Perceive
Identify and describe how messages are created by components in media arts productions.
Identify and describe how various forms, methods, and styles in media arts productions manage audience experience.
Interpret
Determine the purposes and meanings of media arts productions while describing their context.
Evaluate
Identify basic criteria for and evaluate media arts productions, considering possible improvements and contexts.
Connecting
Synthesize
Use personal and external resources to create media arts productions.
Focus on interests, information, and models.
Example: Bring action figures from home to create stop motion video.
Identify and show how media arts productions form meanings, situations and/or culture.
View examples of popular commercial advertising and programming.
Example: Create their own commercial to advertise a product they use.
Relate
Identify how ideas from media arts productions relate to everyday cultural life and influence values and online behavior.
Examine and interact appropriately with media arts tools and environments, applying safety, rules, and fairness.
Grade 4
Creating
Conceive
Conceptualize original media arts products, utilizing a variety of creative methods.
Use brainstorming and modeling.
Example: Draw a design of a multi-purpose tool and create it out of foam or cardboard.
Develop
Consider the artistic goals and the presentation while collaboratively discussing, testing, and assembling ideas, plans, and models for media arts productions.
Construct
Arrange varied content and components to convey purpose and meaning in different media arts productions, applying associated artistic principles.
Use artistic concepts of balance and contrast.
Example: Recreate a short scene depicting Hansel and Gretel running through the forest, with some students representing static trees and others performing the moving characters. Balance is created by composition of figures in the frame and contrast is shown by static and moving characters.
Demonstrate intentional effect in refining media artworks, emphasizing elements for a purpose.
Use elements of design to communicate through metaphor.
Example: Photograph shadows of repetitive lines to represent imprisonment.
Producing
Integrate
Demonstrate how a variety of academics, arts, and media forms (content and media) may be mixed or coordinated into media arts products.
Example: Perform and record a narrated dance.
Practice
Collaborate to practice fundamental artistic, design, technical, and career skills in media arts productions.
Utilize formal technique, equipment usage, production, and effective communication.
Example: Divide students into groups focusing on cinematography (recording performance), acting, effects (lighting, sound, and scenery), and editing of a final product.
Practice design thinking in addressing problems within and through media arts productions.