Visual Arts
Visual Arts - 2 Units, Board Developed Course
This course is designed for students with an interest in visual arts and the practices of artmaking, art criticism and art history. Students develop their own artworks culminating in a ‘body of work’ in the HSC course that shows students’ knowledge and understandings about making artworks and which demonstrates their ability to resolve ideas and concepts within their work. Students investigate artworks, critics, historians and artists from Australia as well as those from other cultures, traditions and times.
The Year 11 course is broad, while the HSC course provides for deeper, increasingly more independent investigations in drawing, painting and sculpture.
The course builds on Visual Arts courses in Years 7-10 but it is possible for highly motivated students who have not studied visual arts in Years 9 and 10 to excel in this course.
The Year 11 Course provides learning opportunities that focus on:
the development of drawing skills and the study of traditional techniques
the development of painting applications, styles and the use of different materials in painting
the research of Art history throughout the world
the exploration of mixed media, sculpture and design.
The HSC Course provides learning opportunities that focus on how students:
develop their ideas in artmaking, specialise in a media and create a body of work
study specific case studies of Artists and Issues within the artworld
understand the relationships between the world, audience, artist and artwork
refine, resolve and present their artmaking ideas.
Exclusions: Artworks developed in visual arts cannot be used in the Content Endorsed Courses of Ceramics, Photography, Visual Design or Furnishing.
Photography, Video & Digital Imaging - 1 or 2 Units Board Endorsed Course
This is a board endorsed course. This course does not count towards an ATAR.
Exclusions: Works developed for assessment in Photography, Video and Digital Imaging are not to be used either in full or in part for assessment in any other subject.
This course gives students the opportunity to investigate one or more of the fields of Photography, Video and Digital Imagery and develop understanding and skills within them. Students can investigate the ways of these fields in the contemporary worlds in the visual arts and design, television, film, video, the mass media and multimedia.
We acknowledge that traditionally accepted boundaries of photography are changing as a result of the widespread use of digital technologies.
The content of this course addresses traditional aspects of photography using 35mm cameras, darkroom, photography paper and chemicals. Students will also explore more contemporary developments such as video and digital imaging.
Critical and historical investigations of the work, the maker, the audience and the world are considered within different frameworks of meaning and value.
This course is offered in 3pds per fortnight or 6 pds per fortnight which contains more content and the production of a professional portfolio.
This course allows students to:
develop the skills to take and develop photos in the B&W Darkroom
understand the effects of lighting, filters and studios
understanding specialist software such as Abobe Creative cloud to alter and create digital works
understand the media of film and video production
use photography as a means of visual communications and a process to aid observation and analysis
gain an understanding of careers involving Photography, Film and Digital Medias.
BYOD IS A REQUIREMENT OF THIS COURSE. FULL ADOBE CREATIVE CLOUD SOFTWARE IS REQUIRED FOR THE DIGITAL COMPONENTS OF THIS COURSE.