AE17.MED.8.4

Arts Education (2017) Grade(s): 8 - Media Arts

AE17.MED.8.4
Modify and refine media artworks, improving technical quality and intentionally accentuating selected expressive and stylistic elements, to reflect an understanding of purpose, audience, and setting.

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

List unusual ideas generated through experimenting with combining standard ideas for a media arts product. Choose one idea to develop based on identified artistic goals and justify the choice. Use improvisation develop a script/ storyboard for production.
In a group, apply given criteria for intent, resources, and context to critique the entire idea-to-presentation process of the group's media arts product proposal.
Outline a plan for a media arts product that serves as a PSA for a community organization, choosing stylistic conventions that support unity and theme.
Exchange copies of media arts products with a classmate. In the spirit of exploration and experimentation, modify and refine a product to purpose and audience for a different setting. Meet and explain choices in modifications.

Vocabulary

Creativity

Experimentation

Collaborate

Roles
Jobs
Delegation

Aesthetics

Beauty

Design process
Stylistic conventions

Theme
Unity

Anchor Standards

Anchor Standard 3: Refine and complete artistic work.

Aligned Learning Resources

Media Awareness II: Key Concepts in Advertising

Media Awareness III: Crossing the Finish Line