You will gain knowledge of traditional and contemporary photographic procedures and become proficient with DSLR cameras, taking technically sound photographs and mastering various photographic procedures. Digital photographic methods will be taught with the Adobe software programmes, Photoshop and Lightroom.

Students will embark on projects developing individual and creative photographs based on investigations of established photographic artist models. This course promotes independent work habits and student choice to extend their personal learning in photography.

Working in the Arts promotes student motivation and requires self-discipline and the confidence to succeed.

Students will learn problem solving and critical thinking skills that are relevant to the wider world. These and other important habits stay with students and help them succeed in other areas of school, life and future careers.

Course Expectations

I expect you to be curious, experiment, take chances, fail and to learn from it. To share your experiences during in-class critiques, respect the work and ideas of your classmates, develop a set of criteria for discussing and judging work, think, and finally, become familiar with artwork made by other people.

2023 Visual Art WDSG L2 photography Course Outline

2023 Visual Art WDSG L3 PHOTOGRAPHY Course Outline

Photography Class website

A course specific website is used by the Level 2 & Level 3 Photography class. This has been created to support teaching and learning for the course.

Examples of a Level 2 folio

Examples of a Level 3 folio

Body of Work

For NCEA students complete a theme of work for the year. This series of work is developed over the course of the year.

At the end of the year work is presented on a 2 or 3 board folio for the external examination depending on your course level.

Note: Students can be removed from the folio standard and entered into an internal-only programme in consultation with parents, deans and the Senior Leadership Team

A broad theme is selected for the years study. Your theme will be based around your personal interests and the accessibility of subject matter. Your subject matter needs to be easily sourced. It must also relate as much as possible to your interests and abilities. By using a theme that personally interests you it allows you to explore a range of approaches, in terms of artistic models, techniques, concepts and materials.

Integrated Achievement Standards, internal into external

What does this mean?

The course is broken into 2 internal achievement standards and 1 external achievement standard a total number of 3 units of work. The units of work will integrate and contribute work towards your external folio and be based on a years study on one theme.

Each standard will be assessed at a set time during the year. Work from each unit may be incorporated into another assessment and assessed against more than 1 standard.

Due to the course being structured as units of work integrated with a number of formative checkpoints there is no resubmission opportunities.

Visuals of the integrated assessment process

L2 photo integrated examples student work .pdf

integrated examples student work .pdf

Year Plan level 2

Year Plan level 3

Folio Exemplars

Examples Waikato Diocesan folios

https://www.nzqa.govt.nz/ncea/subjects/visual-arts/external-exemplars/

https://www.nzqa.govt.nz/ncea/subjects/visual-arts/top-art-exhibition/

https://www.nzqa.govt.nz/qualifications-standards/awards/new-zealand-scholarship/scholarship-subjects/visual-arts/

Visual Art, programmes are structured to allow for individualised learning based on skill, ability and interests.