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PROCESS PORTFOLIO
PROCESS PORTFOLIO
A guide for students
A guide for students
Task summary
Task summary
The process portfolio is an externally examined assessment task worth 40%.
The process portfolio is an externally examined assessment task worth 40%.
To complete the task, you are required to present documentation of your experimentation, exploration, manipulation and refinement of a variety of visual arts activities during the development of your body of work over the two-year course. The documentation may include carefully chosen samples, which may be extracted from your visual arts journal and other sketchbooks, notebooks and portfolios, as well as preliminary and developmental artworks that have not been included in the exhibition task. The work is submitted as a series of screen-based slides.
To complete the task, you are required to present documentation of your experimentation, exploration, manipulation and refinement of a variety of visual arts activities during the development of your body of work over the two-year course. The documentation may include carefully chosen samples, which may be extracted from your visual arts journal and other sketchbooks, notebooks and portfolios, as well as preliminary and developmental artworks that have not been included in the exhibition task. The work is submitted as a series of screen-based slides.
Formal requirements
Formal requirements
SL
SL students submit 9–18 screens, which evidence their sustained experimentation, exploration, manipulation and refinement of a variety of art-making activities.
The submitted work must be in at least two art-making forms, each from separate columns of the art-making forms table.
The submitted screens must not include any resolved works submitted for part 3: exhibition internal assessment task.
HL
HL students submit 13–25 screens, which evidence their sustained experimentation, exploration, manipulation and refinement of a variety of art-making activities.
The submitted work must have been created in at least three art-making forms, selected from a minimum of two columns of theart-making forms table.
The submitted screens must not include any resolved works submitted for part 3: exhibition internal assessment task.
Possible structure
Possible structure
Approaches to the process portfolio will be as varied as the art-making practices that different students undertake. What is essential is that your process portfolio articulates the artistic journey that you have undertaken over the two-year course while best representing your achievement against the marking criteria.
Approaches to the process portfolio will be as varied as the art-making practices that different students undertake. What is essential is that your process portfolio articulates the artistic journey that you have undertaken over the two-year course while best representing your achievement against the marking criteria.
The submission may come from scanned pages from your visual arts journal, other notebooks or sketchbooks. It might come from photographs or digital files or a combination. The process portfolio screens may take a variety of forms, such as sketches, images, digital drawings, photographs or text.
The submission may come from scanned pages from your visual arts journal, other notebooks or sketchbooks. It might come from photographs or digital files or a combination. The process portfolio screens may take a variety of forms, such as sketches, images, digital drawings, photographs or text.
The selected screens should evidence a sustained inquiry into the techniques that you have used for making art, the way in which you have experimented, explored, manipulated and refined materials, technologies and techniques and how you have applied these to your developing work. You should show where you have made independent decisions about the choices of media, form and purpose that are appropriate to your artistic intentions. The portfolio should communicate your investigation, your development of ideas and artworks and evidence the synthesis of ideas and media. Your process will have inevitably resulted in both resolved and unresolved artworks and you should consider your successes and failures as equally valuable learning experiences, worthy of including in your process portfolio.
The selected screens should evidence a sustained inquiry into the techniques that you have used for making art, the way in which you have experimented, explored, manipulated and refined materials, technologies and techniques and how you have applied these to your developing work. You should show where you have made independent decisions about the choices of media, form and purpose that are appropriate to your artistic intentions. The portfolio should communicate your investigation, your development of ideas and artworks and evidence the synthesis of ideas and media. Your process will have inevitably resulted in both resolved and unresolved artworks and you should consider your successes and failures as equally valuable learning experiences, worthy of including in your process portfolio.
You must not include work submitted as a part of the exhibition task in your process portfolio.
You must not include work submitted as a part of the exhibition task in your process portfolio.
Further advice for students
Further advice for students
While there is no limit to the number of items you may wish to include on each screen, overcrowded or illegible materials may result in examiners being unable to interpret and understand your intentions.
If scanning pages from your visual arts journal, other notebooks or sketchbooks for inclusion in your process portfolio, set the scanner to scan at a resolution of 72 pixels per inch in red, green, blue (RGB) colour mode. This matches the screens of most computers used by examiners to view works and will keep your submission to a manageable size.
If using digital photographs or other digital images in your process portfolio, use image editing software to save the images in RGB colour mode at 72 pixels per inch (use the “save for web and devices” found on most digital image editing software) with a minimum width of 1,000 pixels to a maximum width of 1,500 pixels.
Consider adopting a horizontal format for your screens, as this will best fit the screens used to examine the work and will minimize the need for scrolling to view each screen.
If you compile your screens for the process portfolio using a slide presentation software such as Microsoft’s PowerPoint®, Apple’s Keynote® or Prezi Pro™, avoid using animations within slides and animated transitions between slides that may be lost when the file is converted, or may be missed if a moderator advances through your presentation prematurely.
Check your grammar and spelling, paying particular attention to the spelling of artists’ names and subject-specific terminology.
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