VCE Media (Year 11)
VCE Media (Year 11) on VCE Vault: 10 lessons written for Year 11 (VCE, Victorian Certificate of Education), each with worked examples, practice questions and Aari, an AI tutor. The first 4 lessons are free; the whole subject is a one-off A$12.99.
Lessons
Unit 1 — Representations and Australian Stories
- Media Codes and Conventions (free) — Identify and explain technical, symbolic and written codes and the conventions of media forms.
- Representation — How Media Constructs Reality (free) — Analyse how media representations are constructed and how they reflect values.
- Australian Stories in the Media (free) — Analyse how Australian media tell stories about Australian identity, places and people.
- Audiences — Reading Media Texts (free) — Explain how audiences engage with, interpret and are positioned by media.
- Media Industries, Ownership and Platforms — Explain how ownership, platforms and business models shape media content in Australia.
Unit 2 — Narrative Across Media Forms
- Narrative Structure and Story Elements — Analyse how narratives are structured and how story elements engage audiences.
- Genre and Narrative Across Media Forms — Analyse how genre conventions and media forms shape narratives.
- Media Analysis Writing — Units 1–2 — Write structured analyses of media texts using media terminology and evidence.
Media Production
- The Media Production Process — Apply the stages of media production from development to post-production.
- Photography and Still Image Production — Produce still images that use codes and conventions to communicate meaning to an audience.