Level 3 Visual Arts - Photography
Course Description
Teacher in Charge: Ms S. Bell.
Course Overview:
This course builds on the skills and knowledge gained in your Year 12 Visual Arts Photography class. You will explore a range of artistic conventions, ideas, and techniques in the medium of photography—both historical and contemporary—and apply them to your own portfolio project. Internal assignments will contribute towards the external assessment, and the project will be a year-long investigation into your chosen subject matter and theme. This project allows you to explore topics that are meaningful to you while expressing your original ideas, grounded in the pictorial issues of your selected artist models and stylistic approaches.
Students are encouraged to explore a wide range of artistic practices in photography, from analogue processes such as solar imaging to advanced digital processes and editing, including moving images. You will also be encouraged to combine fine arts techniques with photography by "interfering" with the photographic image through collage, paint, and mixed media processes. This is a unique opportunity to experiment and spend the year learning a wide variety of techniques, media, and approaches to photography.
Recommended Prior Learning
Level 2 Visual Arts Photography or equivalent experience. Use of a SLR Digital camera.
Contributions and Equipment/Stationery
Art pack prices to be confirmed depending on what equipment the student already has.
Course fee: $85.00
An SLR Digital camera is highly recommended, but school cameras are available for borrowing.
A laptop/device for working from home.
Photoshop suite license from school $40 (tbc).
64GB+ memory stick or hard drive to back up work.
Fine arts materials as required by student to suit their project could incur some further costs.
Printing costs approximately $50, or depending on students' choice of submission tbc
Pathway
https://youthguarantee.education.govt.nz/initiatives/vocational-pathways/
The Creative Industries pathway: If you’re the creative type there’s a multitude of opportunities in this industry, from working in visual and performing arts to roles in communications and events. People in this industry are cultural ambassadors for the country, they tell our stories and help shape the future.
Careers include Architecture, Graphic Design, Animation/gaming Design, Fine Arts, Fashion Design, Interior Design, Landscape Design, Museum and Education, Theatre and Film production, Art Therapy, Exhibition designer, Further education teacher, Higher education lecturer, Illustrator, Museum/gallery curator, Printmaker, Secondary school teacher, Arts administrator, Commercial art gallery manager, Interior and spatial designer, Museum/gallery exhibitions officer, Multimedia programmer.
Assessment Information
There will be two compulsory internal assessments, one optional internal assessment, and one external assessment.Credit Information
You will be assessed in this course through all or a selection of the standards listed below.
This course is eligible for subject endorsement.
This course is approved for University Entrance.
External
NZQA Info
Photography 3.1 - Analyse methods and ideas from established photography practice
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Photography 3.2 - Use drawing to demonstrate understanding of conventions appropriate to photography
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Photography 3.3 - Systematically clarify ideas using drawing informed by established photography practice
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Photography 3.4 - Produce a systematic body of work that integrates conventions and regenerates ideas within photography practice
Approved subject for University Entrance
Number of credits that can be used for overall endorsement: 26
Students taking this course are eligible to be awarded this subject as part of the requirement for 14 credits in three University Entrance approved subjects.
Pathway Tags
Fashion photography, Commercial photography, Journalist, Architecture, Graphic Design, Animation/gaming Design, Fine Arts, Fashion Design, Interior Design, Landscape Design, Museum and Education, Theatre and Film production, Art Therapy, Exhibition designer, Further education teacher, Higher education lecturer, Illustrator, Museum/gallery curator, Printmaker, Secondary school teacher, Arts administrator, Commercial art gallery manager, Interior and spatial designer, Museum/gallery exhibitions officer, Multimedia programmer.,
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Course selection will depend on the option lines and student numbers. There is no guarantee that the courses you select now will all be available for you in 2024.