Length: Full Year

Recommended background: Successful completion of Year 10 Photography and/or Stage 1 Creative Arts – Photography

Content:

Creative Arts – Photography students will develop skills and knowledge by taking photographs using D-SLR cameras, enhancing and manipulating digital images using Adobe Photoshop and exploring artistic composition options. Potential projects could include the development and presentation of an event poster and/or corporate website, a practical skills folio (exploring camera, photo-editing and composition techniques) and profiles of the life and work of two photographers (one local, one global). This course emphasises a problem-solving approach to the generation of ideas or concepts, and the development of visual representation skills to communicate resolutions.

As per the Subject Outline, in this full-year subject, students are expected to:

• demonstrate knowledge and understanding of core photographic concepts
• investigate and critically analyse the nature and processes of working productively as a photographer
• demonstrate knowledge of working creatively, within or across art forms, through an exploration of photographic media, materials, techniques, processes and technologies
• apply practical skills, techniques and processes to work creatively and productively for a purpose
• work productively to develop, present and evaluate photographic products
• communicate and critically reflect on personal photographic ideas, processes, products and opinions
• evaluate photographic products with reference to processes, outcomes and contexts

Assessment:

Student performance will be determined according to the subject’s Performance Standards as described in the Subject Outline. Grades A+ to E- will be used for reporting purposes.

• Assessment Type 1: Products (50%)
• Assessment Type 2: Inquiry (20%)
• Assessment Type 3: Practical Skills (30%)