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 * Annotated Resource: Jay Cut **

Jay Cut is a main resource for this unit as the medium for film design and production. Jay Cut is a free on-line resource that is easily accessible for a classroom. It is easy to use and simple to present to students. Students will be exploring and experimenting with the different elements of Jay Cut in Lesson 7 and using the on-line program in Lesson 10 to produce their documentary.

Jay Cut allows students to challenge the traditional notion of text being of a print medium (Walsh, 2005, p.2). Through this resource students can incorporate different communication modes such as visual and audio elements to engage the audience. Students will then incorporate a variety of literacy modes into their film, such as written text or narration to address the literacy components of an Information Report.

The program can be used over a range of KLAs as it provides a medium for designing a multimodal text. The program allows students to upload images, videos and audio to include in the film. The program also has a text function that provides students with the means to have written text as a part of the film. These elements can all be used together to create an engaging and rich text that caters for a specific audience or purpose.

This program develops student’s ICT skills and allows for an arts based approach to assessing a student’s understanding. This program encourages students to use their creativity and knowledge of design to produce a unique and engaging product.

Relevance to Outcome: WS2.13 Discusses how own texts are adjusted to relate to different readers, how they develop the subject matter and how they serve a wide variety of purposes.

Walsh, M. (2005). “Reading visual and multimodal texts: how is ‘reading’ different?” in Conference Proceedings, Multiliteracies and English Teaching K-12 in the Age of Information and Communications Technology ALEA Conference 2004, University of New England.