Arts Education (2017) Grade(s): 4 - Media Arts

AE17.MED.4.3

Arrange varied content and components to convey purpose and meaning in different media arts productions, applying associated artistic principles.

Unpacked Content

Essential Questions

EU: The forming, integration, and refinement of aesthetic components, principles and processes creates purpose, meaning and artistic quality in media artwork.
EQ: What is required to produce a media artwork that conveys purpose, meaning, and artistic quality? How do media artists improve/refine their work?

Skills Examples

  • Brainstorm with a group and list many, varied, and unusual ideas for a class media arts project. Use a storyboard to capture and organize ideas.
  • In a group and after brainstorming choose one idea and create a plan and/or model for a media arts production that meet the group's artistic goals. Challenge the model by getting feedback from classmates and revise the storyboard.
  • After researching choose many and varied images and l for a media arts production that convey a chosen purpose. Images and sounds will use balance and contrast.
  • Refine a media arts project to address a chosen purpose, communicating through metaphor.

Vocabulary

Conceptualize
  • imagine
  • visualize
  • unified ideas
  • theme
  • brainstorm
Original
  • unique
  • synthesize
  • model
Artistic Goals
  • intent
  • message
  • aesthetic
Purpose
  • your "why"
  • intent
Artistic Concepts
  • balance
  • contrast
Elements of Design
Principles of Media Arts
Elements of Design
Figurative Language
  • analogy

Anchor Standards

Anchor Standard 3: Refine and complete artistic work.
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