Scotch College

ART Year 10 — 2012

Art:  Studio Art - Photography, Digital Imaging & Animation [Semester Unit]

Rationale 

We live in an increasingly digital world teeming with visual images. Everyone has access to a digital camera. This course gives students the opportunity to explore a range of subjects related to digital photography. It will focus on the skills required to critically interpret the myriad of visual images that they are faced with in their everyday life. This will enable the students to develop in their own work a strong visual aesthetic and a discerning eye.  Using an analytical and practical approach, students explore design elements and principles and camera techniques. They develop production skills, and a critical understanding of the way images can reflect and impact on our society, including issues of copyright. 

The course also assists students to articulate their own positions on issues of ethics, values, and the influence of the image, while enabling them realize a folio of work that expresses their creative response to the world in which they live. This course provides consolidation and extension of skills and concepts in photography and digital imaging. 

The course adopts a ‘community of inquiry’ approach to examine ‘aesthetics’ and the representation of people and places in images across history and cultures.  Using both an analytical and practical approach, design elements and principles and camera techniques are first understood and then applied by students, with the aim that they develop both production skills, and a critical understanding of the way images can reflect and impact on our society.

Student Outcomes 

• express themselves creatively through photography, digital imaging and animation
• come to understand how to support and sustain their art practice
• develop, practice and refine specialized skills in photography and digital imaging
• develop an awareness of aesthetic qualities in the production of their photography and digital imaging
• develop and apply skills in visual analysis including the use of appropriate terminology in relation to their own artwork and artists studied
• acquire an understanding of how artists develop styles and interpret subject matter
• develop an understanding of professional art practices related to the exhibition of artworks
• encourage artistic development through personal and independent exploration, with an emphasis on innovative thinking and investigation 
• contribute to the students confidence in his own ability, clarifying and extending his conceptual knowledge
• cultivating his individuality, giving him standards and values and generating desirable behavior patterns 
• provide a learning experience to stimulate development according to each students potential 
• promote creativity and imagination; to exercise the emotions and intellect simultaneously; and to encourage self-expression and individuality while promoting social skills and responsible attitudes 

Course Content 

• Understand the history of photographic representations in portrait, landscape, fashion and story form.
• Examine current and historical expressions of ‘Aesthetics and Beauty’.
• Analyze and apply the use of design elements, principles and camera techniques in a range of photographs.
• Use an SLR camera to control exposure and depth of field.
• Use digital imaging software to control development of digital images.
• Consider and formulate their own positions on issues of ethics, values and the influence of photography on society.
• Capture the mood and presence of a location in the ‘landscape’.

Assessment 

Examination 

Finished Art Work/Folio 

Design and Development Journal  

ICT Application/Research Assignment