MCCA104 – Engaging Media
Assessment Guide
Trimester 1A, 2024
UNIT OUTLINE AND ASSESSMENT GUIDE
The Unit Outline and the Assessment Guide for Engaging Media provide the full requirements of the unit and both should be referred to when completing unit assessments.
PRESENTATION OF WRITTEN ASSIGNMENTS
In all the written assessments for this unit, it is important that you present your work in a way that communicates a professional attitude. Below are some formatting rules that should be followed for each written assessment :
• Type or word-process your assessment
• Use a 12 font size
• Use Arial font
• Leave a margin of 2.5 cm around all four sides of the page
• Use double spacing between lines
• Use a Header to insert you name and student ID number at the top of the page
• Number pages clearly
• Keep a copy of your submitted assessments
For Reference List:
• Formatted according the APA 7th Edition referencing system;
• Use single space for each source entry; and
• Use double space between entries.
• Use hanging indentation (from the second line of each reference)
• Alphabetise the reference list by author name
DETAILED INFORMATION ON ASSESSMENT TASKS
Assessment 1: Learning portfolio
Due Date: Sunday Week 6, 11.55pm via Turnitin
Weighting: 30%
Assessment Task
The learning portfolio is like an ongoing learning ‘diary’ that you maintain in detail for the first 6 weeks of the unit. It aims to guide you through the tasks and skills you require for completing the other assessment tasks in the unit. This assessment will assist you in achieving the unit outcomes by documenting your:
- ability to find and evaluate appropriate sources of information
- ability to critically analyse texts and develop critical thinking skills
- ability to synthesise ideas and effectively communicate in a formal manner
- ability to identify arguments and counter-arguments
Submission Requirements
Each week there will be specific tasks you need to carry out and record in your learning portfolio. You will need to document your portfolio in a Word Document, using the presentation guides (formatting) as outlined on page 2 of this document. Each week you will be required to show that you have completed each weekly task and this will be marked off on a log, this is to help guide your time- management of this assessment and is part of your final assessment mark.
The tasks and writing exercises build on each other to ensure that you have the required skills and experience to tackle the next two assessments in the unit. You will need to submit all of the logs at the end of week 6 one Word document via Turnitin. (The submission point is under the week 6 tab on Moodle). Please save this document using the following pattern: MCCA104_A.1_(insert your full name)
Assessment 2: Remediation Project
Due Date: Sunday Week 9, 11.55pm via Turnitin
Weighting: 30%
Assessment Task
Submission Requirements
This assessment consists of two parts. A practical creative response to the notion of remediation (remediation component), as well as research demonstrating your understanding of the processes of production, distribution and consumption, and how these may be changing in a digital media environment (written component).
This assessment assists you in achieving the unit learning outcomes because you will demonstrate:
- your practical skills in, and engagement with, the concept of ‘remediation’ and the contemporary media environment
- your critical understanding of the various factors influencing the production and consumption of media texts
- your ability to present these understandings in both written and creative form using scholarly references
Remediation Component:
Choose a media text that you enjoy and think would make a good candidate for ‘remediation’ (i.e. representing it in a different media form). Your text could come from any form of mass media. Some good examples include (but are not limited to):
- A book
- A poem
- A song
- A video
- A newspaper article
- A photograph
- A speech
You need to remediate this text – i.e. re-present the text in a different media format. For example, if the original text was a newspaper article, you could rework it as a webpage, or a video. You do not have to stick to a strict definition of what a remediation is; your new text may involve re-mixing, mash- ups and changing the original context/text, but you’ll have to think about and justify why you have a more open approach to remediation in the written component.
Your remediated text needs to be presented in an electronic format (e.g., as a pdf, video, webpage, blog, jpeg, etc.) As a general guide, audio or video texts should be no more than about 3 minutes long; involved graphical texts (e.g. graphic novel, cartoons) should be no more than 12 panels; text based remediations (including websites, blogs, newspaper article etc.) should be no more than 1100 words. It is advised that you choose from non-copyrighted materials for both your text and when creating your remediation. These can be found by selecting ‘tools’ on a google search and then filtering your searches to ‘labelled for reuse with modification’ . (Please see screenshot below.)
Your remediation will not be assessed according to technological or artistic prowess, rather, on the creative use of the platforms affordances and on the success of the process of transforming the text into a different form and the understanding it suggests of the shifts in production, distribution and/or audience in a new/digital media environment. (Hint: it will be hard t demonstrate this understanding if your new text does not differ much in terms of production, distribution or consumption from the old text).
In order to fully engage with the issues surrounding new media production, you are required to upload your Remediation online to a platform appropriate to your chosen type of remediation. If possible, this upload should be kept private so that only you can see it. Once you have uploaded this remediation, you will need to screenshot this and email your screenshots and original remediation file to your teacher.
(Their email address can be found in the Unit Outline.) The files you have uploaded should then be deleted.
Written Component:
Along with the remediation you need to submit a short-written document that outlines your understanding of how your remediation changes the way in which the original text can/has been produced, distributed and consumed.
Your documentation should take the following format:
Original Text (200 words +/- 10% you only need to briefly list these)
- Title
- Format
- Producers (list in as much detail as possible. E.g. the people, companies or institutions involved in the production of the text).
- Distributors (list in as much detail as possible about the people, companies or institutions involved in the distribution of the text.)
- Consumers (identify the intended and/or likely audiences for this text.) Remediated Text (200 words +/- 10% you only need to briefly list these)
- Title
- Format
- Production (who/what was – or could – be involved in the production of the text)
- Distribution (how might this text be distributed? Who would be involved?)
- Audience (identify the intended and / or likely audiences for this text.) Provide a response to the following (1000 words +/- 10%):
1. In your own words, briefly describe the process of remediating your text and articulate what might be differences in meaning between the original and remediated text/s.
2. In what ways does your remediated text demonstrate an understanding of how remediation impacts on the contemporary media environment?
3. What key themes and/or concepts covered in the unit do you think are raised by your remediation? Why/ How?
Assessment 3: Essay
Due Date: Sunday Week 12, 11.55pm via Turnitin
Weighting: 40%
Assessment Task
Submission Requirements
Write a 1500-word essay responding to one of the questions below. Each question roughly relates to one of the key themes or issues considered throughout the unit.
1. Traditional applications of copyright are becoming unworkable in the contemporary media environment. Critically discuss, utilising the concepts you have learned in the unit and applying critical understandings of media cultures andinstitutions.
2. Remediation is a key contemporary practise that performs McLuhan’s earlier notion that ‘the medium is the message.’ Critically discuss, utilising the concepts you have learned in the unit and applying critical understandings of media cultures andinstitutions.
3. Digital culture has changed the way we produce, distribute and consume music. Critically discuss, utilising the concepts you have learned in the unit and applying critical understandings of media cultures andinstitutions.
4. Globalisation encourages the production of culturally diverse media. Critically discuss, utilising the concepts you have learned in the unit and applying critical understandings of media cultures andinstitutions.
5. Digital culture has changed the way we produce, distribute and consume news media. Critically discuss, utilising the concepts you have learned in the unit and applying critical understandings of media cultures andinstitutions.
6. Privacy is becoming increasingly relevant, and yet at risk in the context of social networking sites and social media. Critically discuss, utilising the concepts you have learned in the unit and applying critical understandings of media cultures andinstitutions.
7. In a period of ‘post-truth’ media, the notion of credibility is becoming increasingly relevant, and yet difficult to obtain and discern. Critically discuss, utilising the concepts you have learned in the unit and applying critical understandings of media cultures andinstitutions.
8. The success of digital games has changed the way we think about other traditional media production and consumption. Critically discuss, utilising the concepts you have learned in the unit and applying critical understandings of media cultures andinstitutions.
9. The performance of identity online is increasingly intertwined with our offline identity. Critically discuss, utilising the concepts you have learned in the unit and applying critical understandings of media cultures.
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