NEW PLYMOUTH GIRLS’ HIGH SCHOOL VISUAL ARTS DEPARTMENT
2026
‘The Photographic Road Trip’
Achievement Standard: 91322 Photography (2.4)
Assessment: External Credits: 12
Version: 2
Produce a systematic body of work that shows understanding of art making conventions and ideas within photography
Assessment Criteria
Achievement
Produce a systematic body of work that shows understanding of art making conventions and ideas within photography
Achievement with Merit
Produce a systematic and purposeful body of work that shows understanding of art making conventions and ideas within photography
Achievement with Excellence
Produce a fluent and purposeful body of work that shows understanding of art making conventions and ideas with photography
Student Instruction Sheet
Introduction
This assessment activity requires you to produce a systematic body of work that shows understanding of art making conventions and ideas within photography. You will be required to re-develop your proposition. Your body of work will fill 2x A1 panels demonstrating fluency and understanding of art making conventions and ideas. You will have approximately 10 weeks of in and out-of-class time to complete this activity.
Task
External portfolios examples
Introduction to the requirements of the external portfolio. View slideshow of examples.
You will take part in a series of small activities to support your ideas and technical skill.
definitions match up
analysing a portfolio
portfolio layout exercise in groups
checklist for each panel
aging photographs
various types of editing
applying media to a series of photos
taking a photo back to the space you took it (b/w v’s colour)
Re-establish your proposition
You will develop and extend your ideas further by completing a proposition in your Class Notebook. Ideas will extend on from your AS 2.3 submission.
The proposition will consist of genre and relevant established practice (e.g., Conceptual ideas, subject matter, presentation of ideas on the folio), photography techniques and conventions (e.g., Light source, shutter speed, depth of field, focus, digital manipulations) and pictorial devices (e.g., Composition, pattern, texture, scale, viewpoint, contrast, colour, focal point)
Critiques
You will participate in group and class critiques of your work. Comments will be jotted down on post it notes and stuck into your visual diary to reflect on.
First Photo-shoot
Plan your photoshoot. Take a body of photographs that generate and develop your ideas/concept.
Produce a proof sheet, choose your most successful images. Consider a variety of viewpoints, make sure your image is in focus, interesting depth of field, composition, subject matter, etc and then arrange into sequences.
Produce a systematic series of images that explores your idea. (You could make changes to compositions by altering subject matter, repositioning the lighting or/and changing the viewpoint).
Second and Third Photo-shoot
Produce photographs that continue to develop, clarify and regenerate your ideas through camera techniques and pictorial devices.
Continue to show evidence of your selected artist models and photographic conventions.
Present your final images on 2x A1 portfolio panels.
Fourth Photo-shoot
Produce a photoshoot that seeks to regenerate your ideas
Formative Assessment: Friday Week 7, Term 3
Summative Assessment Due: Week 3, Term 4
Level 2 Visual Arts - hand in: Friday 25 October Year 13 study
Explanatory Notes
1 This achievement standard is derived from The New Zealand Curriculum, Learning Media, Ministry of Education, 2007, Level 7 strands, Understanding the Visual Arts in Context, Developing Practical Knowledge in the Visual Arts, Developing Ideas in the Visual Arts and Communicating and Interpreting in the Visual Arts; and is related to the material in the Teaching and Learning Guide for Visual Arts, Ministry of Education, 2010 at http://seniorsecondary.tki.org.nz.
2 Definitions:
A systematic body of work refers to individual, related works that form a series or sequence to show generation and development within the art making process. This involves editing, selecting and ordering of work.
A purposeful body of work refers to individual, related works that are selected to form a series or sequence to show generation, development and extension of ideas within the art making process.
A fluent body of work refers to individual, related works that are critically selected to form a series or sequence in the generation, development, clarification and regeneration of ideas within the art making process.
Conventions of photography refers to the appropriate use of characteristics and constraints applicable, relevant and fitting to the field.
3 Assessment Specifications for this achievement standard can be accessed through the Visual Arts Resources page found at www.nzqa.govt.nz/ncea/resources.