Year 10 Visual Arts

Media: Film

Semester Overview

The Year 10 course aims to provide students with specialised knowledge required in performing a wide range of creative tasks in the medium of moving image (film); utilising industry-based software and equipment. Year 10 ‘Film’ has a direct focus on the analysis of narrative films and the development, pre-production, production, post-production and distribution in the creation of their own short films. 

Students will develop computer and media literacy skills, essential in the Media and Communications Industry of the 21st Century. Students will use industry-based programs, specifically Adobe Premiere Pro. Furthermore, they will develop skills in using camera, sound and lighting equipment. Students will research, design, create and reflect on media devised from a range of stimuli, in order to develop a personal style.

Students will be able to: 

• Experiment with ideas and stories that manipulate media elements and genre conventions to construct new and alternative viewpoints in images, sounds and text. 
• Manipulate media representations to identify and examine social and cultural values and beliefs. 
• Develop and refine media production skills to integrate and shape the technical and symbolic elements in images, sounds and text to represent a story, purpose, meaning and style. 
• Plan, structure and design media artworks for a range of purposes that challenge the expectations of specific audiences by particular use of media elements, technologies and production processes. 
• Plan, produce and distribute media artworks for a range of community, institutional contexts and different audiences, and consider social, ethical and regulatory issues. 
• Analyse and evaluate how technical and symbolic elements are manipulated in media artworks to challenge representations framed by social beliefs and values in different community and institutional contexts. 
• Analyse and evaluate a range of media artworks from contemporary and past times, to explore differing viewpoints and enrich their media arts making. 

Subject to a materials charge. Please refer to the Materials Charges document for indicative costs. 

Media: Social Media and Design

Semester Overview

The Year 10 course aims to provide students with specialised knowledge required for print, social media and digital design industries, performing a wide variety of creative tasks in mediums such as photography, print and digital design. Year 10 ‘Social Media and Design’ has a direct focus on examining the effect social media has on society, the ethical and privacy implications that arise as a result of social media, and how social media has changed the landscape of advertising. Students will develop skills in the development, pre-production, production, post-production and distribution of creating print products, digital design, advertising and photography, using industry-based programs, Adobe Photoshop and Adobe InDesign. They will also gain skills in using camera and studio lighting equipment. 

Students will develop computer and media literacy skills, essential in the Media and Communications Industry of the 21st Century. Students will use appropriate decision-making skills to find the most effective way to implement ideas, research, design, create and reflect on media devised from a range of stimuli, in order to develop a personal style.

Students will be able to: 

• Experiment with ideas and stories that manipulate media elements and genre conventions to construct new and alternative viewpoints in images, sounds and text. 
• Manipulate media representations to identify and examine social and cultural values and beliefs. 
• Develop and refine media production skills to integrate and shape the technical and symbolic elements in images, sounds and text to represent a story, purpose, meaning and style. 
• Plan, structure and design media artworks for a range of purposes that challenge the expectations of specific audiences by particular use of media elements, technologies and production processes. 
• Plan, produce and distribute media artworks for a range of community, institutional contexts and different audiences, and consider social, ethical and regulatory issues. 
• Analyse and evaluate how technical and symbolic elements are manipulated in media artworks to challenge representations framed by social beliefs and values in different community and institutional contexts. 
• Analyse and evaluate a range of media artworks from contemporary and past times, to explore differing viewpoints and enrich their media arts making. 

Subject to a materials charge. Please refer to the Materials Charges document for indicative costs.

Studio Art

Semester Overview

In Studio Arts students identify the influences of other artists and analyse connections between techniques processes and visual conventions in artworks to develop their own personal art practice. They select, and manipulate materials, techniques, processes, visual conventions and technologies to express ideas and viewpoints in their artworks. 

Students analyse and evaluate how artists communicate ideas and convey meaning in artworks. Students discuss how ideas and beliefs are interpreted by audiences and analyse and evaluate exhibitions from different cultures, times and places. 

Students will be able to:

Explore and Express Ideas: 

Students explore visual arts practices and styles as inspiration to develop a personal style, explore, express ideas, concepts and themes in artworks. Students explore how artists manipulate materials, techniques, technologies and processes to develop and express their intentions in artworks. 

Visual Arts Practices: 

Students will select and manipulate materials, techniques, technologies and processes in a range of art forms to express ideas, concepts and themes. Students conceptualise, plan and design artworks that express ideas, concepts and artistic intentions. 

Present and Perform: 

Students will create, present, analyse and evaluate displays of artwork considering how ideas can be conveyed to an audience. 

Respond and Interpret: 

Students will analyse and interpret artworks to explore the different forms of expression, intentions and viewpoints of artists and how audiences view them. Students will also analyse, interpret and evaluate a range of visual artworks from different cultures, historical and contemporary contexts to explore different viewpoints. 

Students will be expected to maintain and complete a folio of work which contains a visual diary and finished artworks as well as written analysis tasks. 

Subject to a materials charge. Please refer to the Materials Charges document for indicative costs.

Visual Communication and Design 

Semester Overview 

Students will develop their understanding of how visual language can be used to convey ideas, information and messages in the fields of communication, environmental and industrial design. Visual communication design relies upon drawing as the most important part of the visual language to support ideas and to communicate to an audience. Throughout this study, students explore manual and digital drawing methods to develop and refine presentations. Students will investigate the work and practices of Australian and international designers. 

Elaborations: 

Students will learn: 

• Developing and refining visual communications, using relevant drawing conventions and methods specific to a selected design field, such as environmental, industrial and communication design. 
• Investigating the use of drawing systems to communicate ideas in different design fields, for example, manual, digital or technical drawing systems used in the different design fields of industrial, environmental and communication design. 
• Selecting manual and technical drawing conventions relevant to different stages of the design process, for example, visualisation, development and refinement. 
• Using paraline, orthogonal and perspective drawing systems to communicate concepts in the development and refinement of visual communications. 
• Selecting and applying relevant manual and digital drawing methods conventions in the design process to communicate ideas. 
• Investigating drawing conventions in visual communication design. 
• Evaluating the use of personal aesthetic, visual language and drawing conventions when creating visual communications. 

Victorian Curriculum Assessment Areas:

• Explore and Represent Ideas
• Visual Communication Design Practices 
• Present and Perform 
• Respond and Interpret

Subject to a materials charge. Please refer to the Materials Charges document for indicative costs.