Year 10 Subjects: The Arts

Art Creative Practice

Overview: Art is an integral part of life and contributes to a progressive society. Artworks and visual language are a dynamic means to communicate personal experiences and ideas, and cultural values, beliefs and viewpoints on experiences and issues in contemporary society. This study is designed to introduce the structural, personal, and cultural lenses studied in VCE Art Creative Practice to the students. The Structural Lens helps the analysis and interpretation of an artwork, and its relationship with the artist and viewer, through the investigation of the art elements and art principles, materials, techniques, and processes. The Personal Lens investigates the personal feelings, beliefs and life experiences of the artist, viewer, or audience. The Cultural Lens investigates the social, historical, and cultural influences on art. Students will make, interpret, and respond to artworks of their own and others. 

Areas of Study:

• Students will explore a range of medium and methods to then create trials or finished art works
• Students will complete tasks which give them learning experiences to question, investigate and reflect on their art making and the work of other artists
• Students will experiment and take part in collaborative, personal, project based and inquiry tasks.

Assessment:

• Inquiry tasks, visual diary entries, annotations, and final artworks
• Research, exploration of methods and medium, analysis and project-based/collaborative tasks
• End of Semester Examination

Media

Overview: This study is designed to enable students to begin to investigate and analyse their own and others’ experiences of media. Students begin to develop an understanding of production processes involved in the construction of media forms. They also begin to examine the relationship between the media, media products and society.

Areas of Study:

• Production of images both still and moving
• Production design
• Media processes, social values, and media influence

Assessment:

• Research/design projects
• Theory and practical photography
• Collaborative film project
• End of Semester Examination

Music Performance

Overview: In this unit students will work as a soloist and in small groups to develop their performance skills. Students must be able to sing or play an instrument to be in this unit as it is a practical subject where a wide range of styles will be performed. Students will explore music technology, composition, aural/theory/listening skills to prepare them for VCE Music.

Areas of Study:

• Performance: Solo and Group works
• Composition, Improvisation and Arrangement
• Music Language: Theory, Aural and Listening Analysis

Assessment:

• Performance: Solo and Group Assessments
• Composition: Song Writing
• Music Language: Tests and classwork

Theatre Studies

Overview: This study offers students the opportunity to try working in the different production roles of Actor, Director, and Designer, (set, props, costume, make-up, lighting, sound), to produce theatre for audiences. Students collaborate through a process of active analysis to interpret scripts creatively and imaginatively from different contemporary theatrical movements, while developing and refining transferable proficiencies in analysis, evaluation, critical thinking, communication, and innovation.

Areas of Study:

• Introduction to contemporary theatre styles and conventions 
• Exploring production roles
• Interpreting contemporary scripts
• Analysing a play in performance

Assessment:

• Folio and research documentation
• Analytical report on professional theatrical performance
• Presentation of theatrical interpretation of a contemporary work

Visual Communication Design

Overview: In this VCD unit, students learn to use a visual language and the role this plays in communicating ideas, solving problems, and influencing behaviours. They explore and develop skills and an understanding of the methods used to create effective and aesthetically pleasing designs. Students consider various factors that impact design decisions, including what is a good design, aesthetic impact, and economic, technological, environmental, cultural, and social influences. Students use the design process to produce a range of presentations which may include illustrations, 2D and 3D technical drawings, floor plans, elevations, logos, branding, packaging nets, posters, and surface graphics. Students maintain a visual diary to regularly record ideas, convergent and divergent thinking, annotations, visualisations, and observational drawings. They explore the use of some CAD programs from the Adobe Suite. The study of VCE Visual Communication Design, therefore, seeks to cultivate future-ready designers who have a critical and reflective eye, a refined aesthetic sensibility, and who are equipped with the skills, knowledge, and mindsets necessary to address the problems of life. This Year 10 unit is an exciting and valuable introduction to the VCE Visual Communication Design Units 1 to 4 and is highly recommended as an introduction to the VCD Study Design.

Areas of Study:

• Applying the design process
• Folio of drawing and design tasks
• Exploring design influences (economic, social, cultural, environmental, and technological)
• Visual Diary (understanding and applying the design process)
• Divergent and convergent thinking
• Digital design tasks

Assessment:

• Environments design folio
• Objects design folio
• Messages and interactive experiences designs
• End of Semester Examination