WIFT Gender Equity Workshop is a facilitated conversation about intersectional gender equality and equity in the Australian screen industries. It looks at core reasons behind gender equity generally and how these play into the screen industry. It lays out WIFT’s ideas for how these can be challenged in order to create profound industry wide changes. The …
Dr Daryl Sparkes Dr Daryl Sparkes is a Senior Lecturer on the Springfield Campus. He has been teaching at USQ for the past 20 years. Before that Daryl worked in News for Channel 10, as a Documentary film maker on the Channel 7 series “The World Around Us’ for 6 years, as a Children’s Television …
Narrative structures within screen media frequently adapt and evolve to suit changes in mediums. TikTok has allowed traditional film movements and conventions to adapt into the 1-minute video platform. These structures can be seen within standalone videos and also within web series created specifically for the platform. This session looks are exploring these structures to …
In this presentation we will share a selection of our favourite lesson ideas, assessment, units and examples of student work across Years 7 to 12. For Junior Media Arts, we will cover unit ideas such as “There’s always a bad guy” where students in Year 7 explore how villains and anti-heroes are created in media, …