Unpacked Content
Essential Questions
EU: Media artists require a range of skills and abilities to creatively solve problems within and through media arts productions.
EQ: What skills are required for creating effective media artworks and how are they improved? How are creativity and innovation developed within and through media arts productions? How do media artists use various tools and techniques?
EQ: What skills are required for creating effective media artworks and how are they improved? How are creativity and innovation developed within and through media arts productions? How do media artists use various tools and techniques?
Skills Examples
- Choose a media arts product and by responding to teacher questions, justify how diverse contents and forms support a central idea.
- In a creative team with assigned roles, use creative thinking to choose a topic for a media arts project that combines two art forms and has been revised at least twice. The project will reflect formal technique according to a provided rubric with a clear attempt to problem-solve in production journals.
- Create a media arts product that addresses a specific problem at school and revise the plan and process at least twice based on constraints.
- In a creative team with assigned roles, explore the tools available in the classroom in both a standard and novel way and adapt the tools available to construct a media arts product.
- After listing tasks needed for a presentation and distribution of a media arts product, complete each task and evaluate performance with a given rubric.
- After sharing a media arts product with a younger group of students, debrief with the teacher about the results and improvements that could be made for the presentation.
Vocabulary
Justify
- cite evidence
- support your view
- put together
- mash-up
- What the piece is mostly about
- theme
- creativity
- problem solving
- creative talent
- proficiency with computers
- video & audio recording & editing equipment
- good communication, writing, researching and editing skills
Anchor Standards
Anchor Standard 5: Develop and refine artistic techniques and work for presentation.
