You will gain knowledge of traditional and contemporary photographic procedures and become proficient with DSLR cameras. Digital photographic methods will be taught and you will learn skills with Adobe software programmes.

You 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 your personal learning in photography. You will learn computer skills, time management skills, problem solving and requires self-discipline and the confidence to succeed. 

These and other important habits will help you to 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.

You will be required to present your work for this course using a website and will be taught what this is and how to do this in class. It is also important that you create a Photography folder in Google Drive as this will contain all of the images that you take this year. It is important to follow the direction in class for how to set this up.

Class tasks as well as assessments will completed to be able to succeed with your Achievement Standards.

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.