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CAPA Electives
Garth McKenna
Garth McKenna
Study in the Creative and Performing Arts provides students with strong discipline based knowledge and the fundamental skills, creative expertise, learning mindset and critical capabilities highly sought after for the 21st Century world of work. Creative Arts students experience and develop the complex skills required to create and test ideas, generate creative works with confidence, shape inquiry and critically evaluate and reflect on what they do. Study in the Arts prepares students to be significant producers and informed consumers of culture, innovative thinkers, agile problem-solvers and articulate, thoughtful communicators.
Students are not obliged to study a CAPA subject, they may elect to to study an option below.
Dance
Dance provides students with opportunities to experience and enjoy dance as an artform as they perform, compose and appreciate dance. In an integrated study of the practices of performance, composition and appreciation, students develop both physical skill and aesthetic, artistic and cultural understandings. The course enables students to express ideas creatively and to communicate physically, verbally and in written forms as they make, perform and analyse dances and dance forms.
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What Students Learn:
Students will develop knowledge, understanding and skills, individually and collaboratively, through:
developing an articulate body as they perform a range of dances in a variety of styles with a working knowledge of safe dance practice
learning to structure movement as they compose dances to express their ideas, feelings and experiences
learning to use the language of dance and to describe movements using the elements of dance as they view, discuss, read and write about dance
drawing from their experiences gained in performing, composing and appreciating dances, they learn to make connections between the making and performing of the movement and the appreciation of its meaning.
Assessment:
Types of assessment that students are likely to experience include:
Theory Task
Group Performance
Examination
Solo/Group Performance
Additional Costs:
Mandatory Excursions: $0.00
Optional Excursions: $0.00
Additional Consumables: $0.00
Drama
Drama is a dynamic subject in which students learn by doing. They work in a physical environment, performing in most lessons. It provides students with experiences in which their intellect, emotions, imagination and body are all involved and developed through expression, performance, observation and reflection.
In addition to performance there are opportunities to pursue playwriting, production management, direction, set, lighting and costume design.
Students will be given every opportunity to attend, participate in, and view live performances of all types in local and metropolitan settings and participate in actor lead workshops.
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What Students Learn:
Students will develop knowledge, understanding and skills, individually and collaboratively, through:
making drama that explores a range of imagined and created situations in a collaborative drama and theatre environment;
performing devised and scripted drama using a variety of performance techniques, dramatic forms and theatrical conventions to engage an audience;
appreciating the meaning and function of drama and theatre in reflecting the personal, social, cultural, aesthetic and political aspects of the human experience.
Assessment:
Types of assessment that students are likely to experience include:
Group Performance
Scripted Performance & Design
Group Performance
Examination
Additional Costs:
Mandatory Excursions: $0.00
Optional Excursions: $200.00
Additional Consumables: $120.00
Music
The study of Music claims an important place in education because of its pervasive role in our society. It is a performance driven, dynamic, and vibrant study where students come to understand music and sound engineering as a language and thus a means of expression and communication. Music offers an effective platform in the development of 21st century capacities such as creative thinking, imagination, teamwork, confidence, discipline, independence and critical reflection, while building dynamic skills for, and styles of communication. The elective music course provides students with practical opportunities to build on the Year 7 and 8 non-elective course.
Various forms of music technology are introduced throughout the course and students have opportunities to become familiar with software for sound recording, mixing, editing, composition, and notation.
Solo and group performances comprise a significant component of the course and students would be expected to participate in school ensembles and other performance opportunities. Additionally, students are given opportunities to attend live performances of all types in local and metropolitan settings.
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What Students Learn:
Students will develop knowledge, understanding and skills in the concepts of music through:
Performing as a means of self-expression, interpreting musical symbols and developing solo and/or ensemble techniques;
Composing as a means of self-expression, musical creation and problem solving;
Listening as a means of extending aural awareness and communicating ideas about music in social, cultural and historical contexts.
Assessment:
Types of assessment that students are likely to experience include:
Solo/Group Performance and Aural Response
World Music Written Test
Original Composition
Folio and Recording
Additional Costs:
Mandatory Excursions: $0.00
Optional Excursions: $200.00
Additional Consumables: $0.00
Photographic & Digital Media
Much of our knowledge of the world, our cultural and self identity come from the photographic and digital images that saturate the visual arts, television, film, vide o, internet, mass media and multimedia. Photographic and Digital Media at Stage 5 introduces students to industry standard equipment, software and practices for digital photography, illustration, animation, design industries and film making. Developing a portfolio of photographic and digital works that demonstrate various investigations of the world provides opportunities for conveying ideas in a range of forms. Units are thematically based to allow students to develop their own expressive practice using existing skills as well as new techniques in digital photography, digital imaging and video.
Through critical and historical studies students explore relevant artists who work in the fields of traditional and digital photography, digital design, illustration, film and animation. Students examine the role of contemporary photographers and designers in the art world.
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What Students Learn:
Students will develop knowledge, understanding and skills:
to make photographic and digital works informed by their understanding of photographic practice;
in using the Adobe suite of software;
to critically and historically interpret photographic and digital works.
Assessment:
Types of assessment that students are likely to experience include:
Theory Task
Semester 1 Portfolio of Practical Work
Examination
Semester 2 Portfolio of Practical Work
Additional Costs:
Mandatory Excursions: $0.00
Optional Excursions: $150.00
Additional Consumables: $50.00
Visual Arts
In contemporary societies many kinds of knowledge are increasingly managed through imagery and visual codes. Visual Arts empowers students to engage in visual forms of communication, serving to facilitate interpretation and organisation of such information. Studying visual arts gives students opportunities to develop skills vital to future employment contexts and creative industries. It’s worth noting that the business world is looking for creative people more now than ever before as they offer a new and fresh dimension to our world. The new jobs of the future will almost certainly be creative roles, dealing with ever-changing visual technologies and creative approaches to all kinds of problem solving.
As well as creating artworks, students gain experience in visual communication, creativity, problem solving, visual literacy, social commentary, cultural, historical, spatial and visual awareness. Covering the basics through to an understanding of specific art movements & artists, students will develop a greater appreciation & knowledge of artmaking & the world of art through critical and historical studies.
Students will have opportunities to exhibit their own work as well as attending local and national art galleries to view the work of others.
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What Students Learn:
Students will develop knowledge, understanding and skills:
to make artworks informed by their understanding of artmaking practice;
to critically and historically interpret artists and their art.
Assessment:
Types of assessment that students are likely to experience include:
Australian Printmakers - Theory Task
Printmaking Body of Work
Sculpture and Sculptors Task
Ceramic Body of Work
Additional Costs:
Mandatory Excursions: $0.00
Optional Excursions: $150.00
Additional Consumables: $100.00
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