AE17.MED.AC.8

Arts Education (2017) Grade(s): 09-12 - Media Arts

AE17.MED.AC.8
Demonstrate the skillful adaptation and combination of tools, styles, techniques, and interactivity to achieve specific expressive goals in the production of a variety of media artworks.

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?

Skills Examples

Create a series of three media arts products connected by theme and style but using varied art forms and techniques to address recent events in a self-selected news category. Submit the series for teacher and peer review.
Conceptualize an original idea for a series of three media arts product and hold interviews of classmates to "hire" for needed positions. Complete the project and provide "performance reviews" to your "staff" once the series has been presented to an audience.
Create an original media arts series that use a combination of tools, styles, and techniques that interact in a unified theme to serve a single purpose and message and meet personal expressive goals.
Select, organize, and present a collection of media artworks to educate first graders, fifth graders, and peers about the history of media arts.
Attend and evaluate classmates' curations of media artworks. In the spirit of experimentation and growth, implement changes that improve the presentations.

Vocabulary

Message

Thematic Integrity
Unity
Interactivity
Curate a series

Creativity

Stylistic Continuity
Responsiveness to Failure
Resisting Closure

Anchor Standards

Anchor Standard 5: Develop and refine artistic techniques and work for presentation.