Photography, Video and Digital Imaging 

2 Units for each of Preliminary and Year 12

Content Endorsed Course            

Course description

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.

What students learn

Modules may be selected in any of the three broad fields of:

• Wet Photography

• Video

• Digital Imaging

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.

Industries related to Photography, Video and Digital Imaging

The knowledge and skills developed in this course can be applied across a range of career pathways.

Industries related to this course include, but are not limited to, the following outlined on the Your Career website:

• Arts and Recreation Services

• Education and Training

• Information Media and Telecommunications

Assessment: Preliminary and Year 12