Year 8 The Arts

Year 8 The Arts

Content
Students undertake the study of Visual Arts and Drama.

In Visual Arts students: 

•  build on their awareness of how and why artists, craftspeople and designers realise their ideas through different visual representations, practices, processes and viewpoints

• extend their thinking, understanding and use of perceptual and conceptual skills

• continue to use and apply appropriate visual language and visual conventions with increasing complexity

• consider the qualities and sustainable properties of materials, techniques, technologies and processes and combine these to create and produce solutions to their artworks

• consider society and ethics, and economic, environmental and social factors

• exhibit their artworks individually or collaboratively, basing the selection on a concept or theme

• document the evolution of selected art styles and associated theories and/or ideologies

• reflect on the ‘cause and effect’ of time periods, artists and art styles influencing later artists and their artworks

• draw on artworks from a range of cultures, times and locations as they experience visual arts

• explore the influences of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples and those of the Asia region

• learn that Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people have converted oral records to other technologies

• learn that over time there has been further development of techniques used in traditional and contemporary styles as they explore different forms in visual arts

• identify social relationships that have developed between Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples and other cultures in Australia, and explore how these are reflected in developments in visual arts

• design, create and evaluate visual solutions to selected themes and/or concepts through a variety of visual arts forms, styles, techniques and/or processes as they make and respond to visual artworks

• develop an informed opinion about artworks based on their research of current and past artists

• examine their own culture and develop a deeper understanding of their practices as an artist who holds individual views about the world and global issues

• acknowledge that artists and audiences hold different views about selected artworks, given contexts of time and place, and established ideologies

• extend their understanding of safe visual arts practices and choose to use sustainable materials, techniques and technologies

• build on their experience from the previous band to develop their understanding of the roles of artists and audiences.

Assessment
Assessment includes Developmental drawing (observational), colour experimentation and application.  Documentation of design processes and final artworks.

Drama

Content
In Drama students:

• build on their understanding of role, character and relationships

• use voice and movement to sustain character and situation

• use focus, tension, space and time to enhance drama

• incorporate language and ideas and use devices such as dramatic symbol to create dramatic action and extend mood and atmosphere in performance

• shape drama for audiences using narrative and non-narrative dramatic forms and production elements

• draw on drama from a range of cultures, times and locations as they experience drama

• explore the drama and influences of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples and those of the Asia region

• learn that Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people have converted oral records to other technologies

• learn that over time there has been further development of different traditional and contemporary styles of drama, including contemporary styles developed by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander dramatists, as they explore drama forms

• explore meaning and interpretation, forms and elements including voice, movement, situation, space and time, and tension as they make and respond to drama

• consider social, cultural and historical influences of drama

• evaluate the directors’ intentions and expressive skills used by actors in drama they view and perform

• maintain safety in dramatic play and in interaction with other actors

• build on their understanding from previous bands of the roles of artists and audiences as they engage with more diverse performance

Assessment
Assessment includes writing and ongoing assessment pf performance and ensemble skills.