Jess - Media Arts

I loved your filmed picture book, Merian! 

It was especially lovely to hear the children reading it; it gave the film character.

I used PowerPoint to make an animation of hearts growing bigger with a heartbeat track that steadily gets faster. 

I enjoyed making it, but it was very time consuming. It required a lot of fiddling around with tools. The experience definitely highlights the importance of providing children with opportunities to build skills in media arts and become adept at using computer tools for aesthetic purposes. This is especially true as Australian children are exposed to increasingly digitise, multimodal and mediated experiences (Dezuanni & Raphael, 2012, p. 145), and may want to produce their own media arts for enjoyment, communication or professionally, thus enabling them express themselves and their creativity (Australian Curriculum and Assessment Authority, 2014).

Jess.