Photographic and digital media powerfully communicates ideas, identity, values and culture through images. The study of photographic and digital media enables young people to develop an interest in and enjoyment of investigating the rapidly evolving ideas, practices and technologies of this art form. Through critical reflection and acquiring understanding, knowledge and skills, students respond to the ideas, art and arts practice of others, through creatively developing their own ideas and photographic and digital artworks.
NON-ATAR - This course provides students with the opportunity to develop their knowledge, skills and understanding through the making of photographs, and/or film and other time-based works and/or digital images that lead to and demonstrate conceptual and technical accomplishment. Critical and historical investigations of the work of artists/photographers/filmmakers are considered and used to inform student photographic and digital artmaking practices.
Photography, Video and Digital Imaging offers students the opportunity to explore contemporary artistic practices that make use of photography, video and digital imaging. These fields of artistic practice resonate within students' experience and understanding of the world and are highly relevant to contemporary ways of interpreting the world. The course offers opportunities for investigation of one or more of these fields and develops students' understanding and skills, which contribute to an informed critical practice.
The course is designed to enable students to gain an increasing accomplishment and independence in their representation of ideas in the fields of photography and/or video and/or digital imaging and understand and value how these fields of practice invite different interpretations and explanations.
Students develop knowledge, understanding and skills through the making of photographs, and/or videos and/or digital images that lead to and demonstrate conceptual and technical accomplishment. They also develop knowledge, understanding and skills that lead to increasingly accomplished critical and historical investigations of photography and/or video and/or digital imaging.
Modules may be selected in any of the three broad fields of:
Video
Digital Imaging
Editing
Modules include:
Introduction to the Field
Developing a Point of View
Traditions, Conventions, Styles and Genres
Manipulated Forms
The Arranged Image
Temporal Accounts.
An Occupational Health and Safety Module is mandatory. The additional module, Individual/Collaborative Project, extends students' learning experiences and may reflect students' increasing interests and desire to specialise in one or more of these fields or explore the connections further between the fields.