Utilize formal technique, production, and effective communication.
Example: Divide into groups to develop components needed to produce a newscast.
Practice fundamental creative and design processes in addressing problems within and through media arts productions.
Expand conventions.
Example: Produce an audio recording (drama) where the hero is an anti-hero. Vocal inflections and sound effects can be used to help establish concepts of the anti-hero.
Examine how tools and techniques could be used in standard and experimental ways in constructing media arts productions.
Example: Use font styles and/or words in video titles to construct images to communicate a point of view.
Present
Compare qualities and purposes of presentation formats, then fulfill a role in presentation and/or distribution of media arts productions.
Compare results of and improvements for presenting media arts productions.
Responding
Perceive
Identify, describe, and differentiate how message and meaning are created by components in media arts productions.
Example: Change musical underscoring to affect the message.
Identify, describe, and differentiate how various forms, methods, and styles in media arts productions manage audience experience.
Interpret
Determine and compare personal and group interpretations of a variety of media arts productions, considering their intention and context.
Evaluate
Consider context to determine and apply criteria for evaluating production processes and media arts productions, implementing constructive feedback.
Connecting
Synthesize
Access and use internal and external resources to create media arts productions.
Example: Using community interests, content knowledge, and personal experiences, create a presentation to advocate for the school soccer team.
Examine and show how media arts productions create meanings, situations and cultural experiences.
Example: Create a presentation on a new exhibit at an art museum.
Relate
Research and show how media arts productions and ideas relate to personal, social and community life.
Focus on commercial and information purposes, history, and ethics.
Example: Create a video to explore the myths of the Native Americans.
Examine, discuss, and interact appropriately with media arts tools and environments, considering ethics, rules and media literacy.
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Creating
Conceive
Generate variations of goals and solutions for media arts products, utilizing chosen creative processes.
Example: Rewrite commercials to reflect truth in advertising.
Develop
Collaboratively organize, propose, and evaluate artistic ideas, plans, prototypes, and production processes for media arts productions, considering purposeful intent.
Construct
Experiment with multiple approaches to produce content and components for specific purpose and meaning in media arts productions, utilizing a range of associated principles.
Modify point of view and/or perspective.
Example: Record a scene about a bully on the playground. The points of view can reflect the bully, the victim, and the observer.
Assess how elements and components can be altered for specific effects and audience, then refine media artworks to reflect purpose and audience.
Producing
Integrate
