Metro Magazine

Metro Magazine is a magazine that is published by ATOM. It has articles and analysis on current films and media. Would be useful to subscribe to and keep up to date. Would give ideas for film narrative. Unit 3 outcome 1, narrative

Making sense of media: key texts in media and cultural studies

Arthur Asa Berger, 2005 Blackwell publishing, Ch 6  pp49 -57

A piece about undertanding fairytale novels. Good to use when addressing genres. Unit 3 outcome 1, narrative

Cinematic Sociology: Social Life in Film

Jean-Anne Sutherland, Kathryn Feltey, 2009 Pine ford press.

This book looks at ways to interpret and develop analytical skills when watching film text. It has a focus on how culture is reflected in film. good to use for Unit 3 outcome 1, narrative , and Unit 4 outcome 2, social values.

Tutorial: Create a Stop-Motion Animation Movie using Digital Camera

A blog that shows an easy way to make stop-motion animation.

Useful for Unit 3 Narrative, Outcome 2 applying production methods.

The MTV Classroom: A guide to Teaching Music Videos

Amanda Levido, Screen Education, Issue 54, 2009 pp31-33

This article would be useful if your students are particularly interested in music and video producation. It gives activities that could be for students to start looking and critically analysing music videos.

Useful for Unit 3 Narrative, Outcome 2 applying production methods.

Cut to the Chase: A guide to teaching, Film as Text

By Andres Hayes, 2007, Screen Education, 2007, pp 46- 53.

A great article to assist in teaching students about film as text. It covers cinematic techniques (the codes and conventions) and how they influence the story, where to start, genre, and suggested activities.

Good resource to address Unit 1, Outcome 2, ways in which codes and conventions (such as visual, audio, technical and written) are used to convey ideas and meanings.

Heinemann Media 1

Roger Dunscombe, Melinda Anastasios-Roberts, Juliet Francis, Karen Koch, George Lektsas, Nick Ouchtomsky, 2004

Chapters in this book cover representation, techniques of representation, Australian media organisations,  media industry developments, the process and techniques of storytelling. Particularly good for the Australian media organisation and video production process. It has a step by step process of video production tasks. The book could assist in addressing Unit 2 outcome 2 and 3, and Unit 1, outcome 1.

Drawing a basic storyboard

John Hart 1999, The art of the storyboard, Focal press pp27-37
There is a section that outlines how to make a good storyboard. It covers questions that need to be answered such as: who are the characters?, what do they say? etc. It also gives examples of sketches.
Useful for Unit 3 , outcome1 and outcome 2.

DIY documentaries

DIY Documentary explains what a documentary is in an informative and engaging way. Covers areas such as: production (camera editing);  style and genre; and narration. Easily used to address Unit 3 Narrative and production process.

I got this link thanks from Kate mitchell who also has a many media great resources - very impressed!

Creating a horror movie DVD cover

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4aAXpurOUG8

This a a tutorial to help you create horror movie DVD cover. Getting students to do this will give them insight to genre and audience. This could address Unit 3, outcome : the relationship between individual texts and the genre(s)

LessonBucket web site

http://lessonbucket.com/

A media education resource that focuses on the Victorian education curriculum study guides. A great place to start when thinking about how to approach a topic with media. It covers areas such as production processes in various media, to the different areas of study within media education (representation, social context, narrative etc)

Has focus areas in at different levels (year 9 - VCE year 12). The VCE sections are particularly helpful as they break up the content into the various units 1-4.