Arts Education (2017) Grade(s): 3 - Media Arts

AE17.MED.3.4

Practice and analyze how the basic principles alter effect and purpose in refining and completing media artworks.

COS Examples

Example: Change horizon line in digital photographs to affect perspective.

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 improvisation to imagine a script.
  • In a group and after brainstorming, use a decision matrix to choose one idea and with guidance create a plan and/or model for a media arts production. With guidance, test the model by getting feedback from classmates.
  • With guidance, create and present with a media arts product teaching Newton's Laws.
  • With guidance and responding to teacher questions, compare and contrast how the basic principles of light, audio, video/ images affect an original media arts product. Refine the product based on the discoveries from the discussion, i.e., change audio and/or images.

Vocabulary

Develop
  • challenge
  • Variety
    • from more than one category of ideas
    Evaluate
    • test
    • challenge
    Construct
    • build
    • order
    • assemble
    Principles
    • movement
    • force
    Analyze
    • compare and contrast
    • cause and effect

Anchor Standards

Anchor Standard 3: Refine and complete artistic work.
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