Create a digital media outcome DTG 8-4
Requires students to construct a digital media outcome that integrates media types and incorporates original content. The specifications for the digital media outcome, software, and techniques to be used need to be determined prior to the outcome being made.
Learning objective: DTG 8-4
Students will:
- implement complex procedures to create a digital media outcome.
Indicators
- Selects appropriate digital media software applications and specific features to create, edit, and integrate digital media types.
- Accurately and independently applies a set of complex tools and techniques, as appropriate to the media, to create a digital media outcome.
- Accurately and independently applies data integrity and testing procedures.
- Follows legal, ethical and moral responsibilities as appropriate to the outcome.
- Effectively undertakes techniques and procedures in a manner that economises the use of resources in a digital media outcome’s production and usability.
Progression
Initially students learn to perform a set of techniques, as instructed, to produce a digital media outcome. Students should progress to integrating digital media types using complex tools and techniques when constructing original digital media outcomes.
- Examples of digital media outcomes include:
- an animation or multi-page website that integrates student created graphics, video and/or audio
- an edited, student-produced movie integrating student created soundtrack, graphics and/or animation
- a multi-page desktop published document integrating student created graphics and/or still images.
- Examples of complex tools and techniques include:
- Web design: HTML/CSS, scripting dynamic data handling, interaction between user and content, multiple device outputs
- Desktop publishing: interactivity, form elements, chapters and sections
- Motion graphics: Complex transitions, multiple tracks, post processing
- Audio: multiple tracks, manipulating multiple tracks, overlays, equalising
- Image manipulation: colour histograms and adjustments, non-destructive editing, pen tools and paths, filter effects, graphic optimisations, colour management and printing, automation/scripts.
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Teacher guidance
To support students to implement complex procedures to create a digital media outcome, at level 8, teachers could:
- provide opportunity for students to select digital media software applications and specific features to create, edit and integrate digital media types
- provide opportunity for students to apply complex tools and techniques to create a digital media outcome
- guide students to apply processes for media input, editing, testing, and publishing techniques that ensure data integrity and consider legal, ethical and moral responsibilities that ensure a digital media outcome addresses a brief’s specifications
- provide opportunity for students to create digital media outcomes in a manner that economises the use of resources in production and ensures a digital media outcomes usability.
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Contexts for teaching and learning
- Students need to produce a specified digital media outcome. This means there must be:
- detailed, measurable specifications for the outcome. The specifications can be provided by the teacher or developed by the student (refer to AS91635 explanatory note 3)
- opportunity for students to select the software they will use to create the outcome. Students need to be able to evaluate the features of the program(s) and then select the most appropriate software to use. The digital media outcome must demonstrate an integration of at least two media types such as text, web languages, audio, video, graphics, animation, still images (refer AS91635 explanatory note 2 and AS91635 explanatory note 5).
- The digital media outcome must involve the use of complex procedures in one media type - there must be an integration of media types but the complex tools and techniques must be used in one media type.
- In addition to using various complex tools and techniques to produce the outcome students will apply data integrity and testing procedures (refer AS91635 explanatory note 6).
Literacy considerations
Assist students’ understanding of accuracy and efficiency by making them explicit in the task and assessment schedule, that is by giving examples relevant to the particular context.
Resources to support student achievement
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Assessment for qualifications
The following achievement standard could assess learning outcomes from this learning objective:
- AS91635 Digital technologies 3.43: Implement complex procedures to produce a specified digital media outcome.
Key messages from the standard
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AS91635 explanatory note 4 provides examples of the complex tools and techniques expected when working with a selection of digital media types. This list is not exhaustive. For the five media types where examples are given they are an indication of what tools and techniques could be considered ‘complex’.
Note that students do not have to use all the tools and techniques mentioned in the list and, depending on the context, teachers may decide to provide students with their own list of complex tools and techniques that are suitable for that media type in that particular context. (In which case the teacher will need to determine what tools and techniques are deemed to be at a ‘complex’ level).
- AS91635 explanatory note 6 states that data integrity procedures include checking for the relevance, accuracy, and reliability to ensure the outcome functions as intended. These checks should be on-going throughout the production of the digital media outcome and not just a one-off check at the end. Examples of possible data integrity and testing procedures are included in the assessment schedule section of the assessment resource for this standard.
Last updated May 23, 2018
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