Length: Full Year
Recommended background:The ability to work collaboratively, cooperatively and creatively; with self-motivation. Satisfactory completion of Stage 1 Drama is an advantage, but not a requirement.
Content:
By working productively within or across the performing, visual, screen, and literary arts, students learn to synthesise aspects of various arts disciplines, as well as to maintain the integrity of those disciplines. Students actively participate in the development and presentation of two creative arts products. These may take the form of, for example, acting and/or undertaking an offstage role in the Senior Drama production, film and video product, community performances and other negotiated ideas.
Students conduct two inquiries into an area of creative arts practice that is of interest to them. Focused study of the work of creative arts practitioners provides students with in-depth knowledge of the nature of their work and their roles and responsibilities within the creative arts. Students build a personal aesthetic by working and appraising creative arts products. By analysing and evaluating creative arts products in different contexts and from various perspectives, students gain an understanding and appreciation of the ways in which creative arts contribute to and shape the intellectual, social, and cultural life of individuals and communities.
The practical skills external assessment is designed to enable students to further develop, refine, and apply their creative arts skills, provide samples of these skills, and evaluate the ways in which their skills have developed and improved.
Assessment:
Students’ performance will be determined according to the subject’s Performance Standards, as outlined by the SACE Board. Grades A+ to E- will be used for reporting purposes.
School Assessment (70%):
External Assessment (30%):