The Arts have the capacity to engage and inspire all students and help to ignite the imagination.
The Arts learning area at Cape Naturaliste College comprises of four subjects: Drama, Media Arts, Music and Visual Arts. Together they provide opportunities for students to learn how to create, design, represent, communicate and share their imagined and conceptual ideas, emotions, observations and experiences, as they discover and interpret the world.
Years 7 – 10 Lower School
In Media Arts Years 7 – 10, students are provided with a range of opportunities to view media work within the context of a selected focus. Each year they apply their understanding of audience and purpose by creating a range of productions. They also respond to their own and others’ media works and they are encouraged to explore different media trends.
Within production students refine their skills and processes each year for problem-solving, working as a team and following timelines. They complete productions including movie trailers, suspense sequences, television promos, news reports and digital photography folios.
Media Production and Analysis – Years 11 and 12 ATAR Senior School
This course focuses on the application of media theory in the practical process. The Media Production and Analysis ATAR course aims to prepare students for a future in a digital and interconnected world by providing the skills, knowledge and understandings to tell their own stories and interpret the stories of others. Students are encouraged to explore, experiment and interpret their world by analysing contemporary life, while understanding that this is done under social, cultural and institutional constraints. Students in Year 11 will undertake a study of Popular Culture and Journalism. Year 12 students focus on the study of Film Art and the Power of the Media to prepare for their WACE exam. They also produce a 5 minute practical submission as part of their external exam.
Media Production and Analysis – General
This course focuses on the development of technical skills in the practical process. The Media Production and Analysis General course aims to prepare students for a future in a digital and interconnected world by providing the skills, knowledge and understandings to tell their own stories and interpret the stories of others. Students, as users and creators of media products, consider the important role of audiences and their context. They work in the media forms of Television, Photography and Film.
