Subject Code: 2VAD20
Length of course: Full year
Credit points and TAS status: 20 Credit TAS
Recommended Background: Satisfactory completion of Stage 1 Design.

Precluded combinations with current MHS SACE subjects:
Visual Arts – Art (10) and Visual Arts - Art (20)

Course Outline
Students research, analyse, explore and experiment with media and technique, and resolve and produce practical work.

They use visual thinking and investigation to develop ideas and concepts, refine technical skills, and produce imaginative solutions.

Students learn to communicate personal ideas, beliefs, values, thoughts, feelings, concepts and opinions, and provide observations of their lived or imagined experiences in visual form.

Topics Included:
Folio
Students produce one folio that documents their visual learning, in support of their works of design. Students will focus their folio on Graphics or Product Design (eg. Corporate Identity, Fashion Design). The folio should include evidence of visual learning, such as:
  • starting points for visual thinking
  • the application of creative thinking and/or problem solving skills
  • sources of inspiration and influence
  • the analysis of works of design
  • the development of alternative ideas or concepts
  • the evaluation and review of ideas and progress
  • annotated comments to clarify thinking
  • explorations with genre, media, materials, and technology
  • the practice and application of skills
  • refinement of ideas leading up to decisions about the final resolved product.

Practical
All practicals are resolved from visual thinking and learning documented in the folio. The practical consists of two parts:
  • design practical work – final presentation
  • the practitioner’s statement/evaluation.

Visual Study
The visual study is an exploration of, and/or experimentation with, a style, an idea, a concept, media, materials, methods, techniques, and/or technologies. Students base their exploration and/or experimentation on analysis of the work of other practitioners, individual research, and the development of visual thinking and/or technical skills. They present the findings of their visual study as well as their conclusions and insights.


Assessment:
  • Folio 40%
  • Practical 30%
  • Visual Study 30%



Additional Costs:
  • Nil

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