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Enduring Understanding: Media artists purposefully present, share, and distribute media artworks for various contexts.
Essential Question(s): How does time, place, audience, and context affect presenting or performing choices for media artworks?
Process Component(s): Present

Performance Standard(s):
Evaluate various presentation formats and results to improve the presentation of media artworks for personal growth.

Enduring Understanding: Identifying the qualities and characteristics of media artworks improves one's artistic appreciation and production.
Essential Question(s): How do we 'read' media artworks and discern their relational components? How do media artworks function to convey meaning and manage audience experience?
Process Component(s): Perceive

Performance Standard(s):
a. Describe, compare, and analyze the qualities of and relationships between the components and content in media artworks. b. Describe, compare, and analyze how various forms, methods, and styles in media artworks interact with personal preferences in influencing audience experience.

Enduring Understanding: Interpretation and appreciation require consideration of the intent, form, and context of the media and artwork.
Essential Question(s): How do people relate to and interpret media artworks?
Process Component(s): Interpret

Performance Standard(s):
Analyze the intent and meaning of a variety of media artworks, using self-developed criteria.

Enduring Understanding: Skillful evaluation and critique are critical components of experiencing, appreciating, and producing media artworks.
Essential Question(s): How and why do media artists value and judge media artworks? When and how should we evaluate and critique media artworks to improve them?
Process Component(s): Evaluate

Performance Standard(s):
Develop and apply criteria to evaluate various media artworks and production processes, considering context, and practicing constructive feedback.

Enduring Understanding: Skillful evaluation and critique are critical components of experiencing, appreciating, and producing media artworks.
Essential Question(s): How and why do media artists value and judge media artworks? When and how should we evaluate and critique media artworks to improve them?
Process Component(s): Evaluate

Performance Standard(s):
Evaluate media art works and production processes with developed criteria, considering context and artistic goals.

Enduring Understanding: Interpretation and appreciation require consideration of the intent, form, and context of the media and artwork.
Essential Question(s): How do people relate to and interpret media artworks?
Process Component(s): Interpret

Performance Standard(s):
Analyze the intent and meanings of a variety of media artworks, focusing on intentions, forms, and various contexts.

Enduring Understanding: Identifying the qualities and characteristics of media artworks improves one's artistic appreciation and production.
Essential Question(s): How do we 'read' media artworks and discern their relational components? How do media artworks function to convey meaning and manage audience experience?
Process Component(s): Perceive

Performance Standard(s):
a. Compare, contrast, and analyze the qualities of and relationships between the components, content, and intentions in media artworks. b. Compare, contrast, and analyze how various forms, methods, and styles in media artworks manage audience experience and create intention.

Enduring Understanding: Media artists purposefully present, share, and distribute media artworks for various contexts.
Essential Question(s): How does time, place, audience, and context affect presenting or performing choices for media artworks?
Process Component(s): Present

Performance Standard(s):
a. Design the presentation and distribution of media artworks through multiple formats and/or contexts considering previous results on personal growth and external effects.

Enduring Understanding: Media artists require a range of skills and abilities to creatively solve problems within and through media arts productions.
Essential Question(s): What skills are required for creating effective media artworks and how are they improved? How are creativity and innovation developed within and through media arts productions? How do media artists use various tools and techniques?
Process Component(s): Practice

Performance Standard(s):
a. Demonstrate a defined range of artistic, design, technical, and soft skills, such as strategizing and collaborative communication, through performing specified roles in producing media artworks. b. Demonstrate a defined range of creative and innovative abilities, such as divergent solutions and bending conventions, in developing new solutions for identified problems within and through media arts productions.

Enduring Understanding: Media artists integrate various forms and contents to develop complex, unified artworks.
Essential Question(s): How are complex media arts experiences constructed?
Process Component(s): Integrate

Performance Standard(s):
Integrate multiple contents and forms into unified media arts productions , such as interdisciplinary projects, or multimedia theatre, that convey specific themes or ideas.