Year 10 Visual Arts Photography

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exhibition and display and reflection on artworks. Responding comprises 20% of the assessment. It is based on personal and critical responses to artworks, other artists, art history and cultural contexts. Students are assessed on three art projects throughout the year covering both 2D- and 3D-art forms. While largely practical, each project has response and history/cultural components embedded within them.

It is desirable that students who wish to study Visual Arts ATAR in Year 11 should take the Visual Arts Advanced Art course.

Year 10 Visual Arts Photography

Visual Arts Photography in Year 10 is designed to build on and extend students’ photography skills learnt in the Year 9 Art Photography elective. However, while it is helpful to have studied the Year 9 course, it is not an essential prerequisite.

In Year 10, students will learn to compose photographs to create interesting and original images. The course will include two of the three available Art forms: 2D (photography/digital media) and 3D/4D (installation, time-based video or digital animation) and one art style from the Curriculum. Students explore the way in which Visual Arts and Photography influence each other and how photography is used to develop artworks in other mediums such as print, paint and textiles. Students will also explore Photography as a distinct art form by making photographic images to communicate meanings and messages. Artists using photography within their artworks will be looked at as examples, along with the work of Fine Art Photographers.

Within the course, students will learn techniques and processes of photography as well as consider how they can apply photographic methods to making other types of artworks. This course is a helpful lead into Year 11 General Visual Arts and, in conjunction with Year 10 Advanced Art, provides relevant skills and knowledge for Year 11 ATAR Art. Students taking Design courses will also benefit from the course content. The course is structured 70% Making (Skills, techniques, production, and presentation) and 30% Responding (Research, writing and analysis responses) https://k10outline.scsa.wa.edu.au/home/p-10-curriculum/curriculum-browser/the-arts/visual-arts2

Year 10 Applied Information Technology

Students will operate and manipulate technology using appropriate techniques and skills across a variety of applications to access, operate and create digital materials such as text, graphics, sounds and sources of information. Students will have the opportunity to learn about web site design, digital sound creation and manipulation as well as flash animation. Students will also cover graphic manipulation and advanced Microsoft Office.

Applied Information Technology (AIT) is a practical course used to develop an understanding of technology solutions through a design process. A problem-solving approach allows students to use the technologies and processes learned in the course. It develops student ability to solve practical problems using graphics media and computer software. Students will use appropriate technology to design, model and present tangible solutions to problems. They will also investigate and apply elements of formal design; consider and analyse the world of designers; and relate the technologies used by this course to the outside world - past, present and future. Students are continually assessed on guidelines that focus on Investigation; Production / Performance; and Response.