Courses of Study

1) Generate various ideas, goals, and solutions for original media arts products, applying focused creative processes through divergent thinking and experimentation.

2) Collaboratively structure and critique ideas, plans, prototypes, and production processes for media arts productions, considering intent, resources, and the presentation context.

3) Implement production processes to integrate content and stylistic conventions for determined meaning in media arts productions, demonstrating understanding of associated principles.

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.

5) Apply concepts from across content areas and varied arts forms to create a single media arts production.

6) Demonstrate a defined range of artistic, design, technical, and career skills, including strategizing and cooperative communication, to construct media arts productions collaboratively.

7) Demonstrate a defined range of creative and design abilities through divergent solutions and bending conventions to develop new solutions for identified problems within and through media arts productions.

8) Demonstrate adaptability using tools, techniques, and content in standard and experimental ways to communicate intent in media arts productions.

9) Design the presentation and distribution of media arts productions through multiple formats and/or contexts.

10) Evaluate results and implement improvements for presenting media arts productions, considering impacts on personal growth and external effects.

11) Compare, contrast, and analyze the qualities of and relationships between the components and style in media arts productions.

12) Compare, contrast, and analyze how various forms, methods, and styles in media arts productions manage audience experience and create intention.

13) Analyze the intent and meanings of a variety of media arts productions, focusing on intentions, forms, and various contexts.

14) Evaluate with learner-developed criteria the production processes and various media arts productions, considering context and artistic goals.

15) Access, evaluate, and use internal and external resources through cultural and societal knowledge, research, and exemplary works, to influence the creation of media arts productions.

16) Explain and demonstrate how media arts productions expand meaning and knowledge and create cultural experiences through local and global events.

17) Demonstrate and explain how media art productions and ideas relate to various contexts, purposes, and values.

18) Analyze and responsibly interact with media arts tools, environments, and legal and technological contexts, considering ethics, media literacy, social media, and virtual worlds.