Vocational Art and Design | Photography

Unit 1: Visual Recording and Communication

In this unit, you will develop your visual recording and communication skills through exploration and experimentation with materials and methods, gaining confidence in your ability to create work and express and communicate ideas. You will extend your skills through exploring the work of others, ongoing personal reflection and the refinement of your own work. You will demonstrate your practice by applying these skills to a set task.

• Assessed under supervised conditions. 

• Learners will be provided with a theme and a task in the January before

• Assessment period is a maximum of three hours 

• Assessment period can be arranged over a number of sessions. 

• 60 marks

Unit 2: Critical and Contextual Studies in Art and Design

In this unit, you will develop contextual research and critical analysis skills. You will investigate the contextual influences on practitioners that drive and underpin their work. You will learn how to critically analyse pieces of art and design work, deconstructing images and thinking critically about what you see. You will develop these skills through investigation by selecting and sourcing relevant information in order to gain a full understanding of the work of artists and designers.

• Assessed under supervised conditions. 

• Assessment is set and marked by Pearson. 

• Part A is released four weeks before Part B for learners to carry out research. 

• Learners are given three hours of monitored sessions 

• Part B is a supervised assessment in a single three and a half hour session timetabled by Pearson. 

• 60 marks

Unit 3: The Creative Process

• In this unit, you will explore the activities within the creative process. You will develop ideas through use of materials, techniques and processes, refining your ideas and reviewing your working practices. You will explore ways to present your work and understand the importance of self-reflection and evaluation as an ongoing process. You will then apply your own creative process to a piece of art and design work, reflecting on what you have learned to help inform your future practice. This unit is internally assessed. 

Unit 9: Photographic Materials, Techniques and Process | Unit 12: Fine Art Materials, Techniques and Processes

• These units will introduce you to a range of Photographic OR Fine Art materials, techniques and processes. You will explore both their technical characteristics and creative potential, using this experimentation to support your response to a brief. Developing your skills and understanding of photographic materials, techniques and processes, and reviewing your working practice and development will help improve your work. These units are internally assessed.