Year 9 Arts Electives
Dance
Year 9 Advanced Dance
5, 6, 7, 8! Get ready to discover your dance potential!
Students will discover a wide range of concepts and skills within many aspects of hip hop and contemporary dance. They work in small groups to create a dance piece in a style of their choosing. Students will also create a solo dance piece, preparing them for VCE Dance. Students will explore the ways dance has evolved over time and develop an understanding of dance practice across local, national and international contexts. Students incorporate the skills they have learnt into an ensemble dance piece, which they perform in front of an audience.
Media
Visual Media and Digital Photography
The media are among the most powerful cultural influences in society today. The media inform, educate, entertain, and offer an interpretation of the world. Through investigating issues involving the media and their effect on society, and exploring, on a practical level, aspects of the media industry, students will be better equipped to cope with social and technological change. In this course students will participate in examining and producing media materials. By working in a team and individually to produce media materials, students will develop the skills of cooperation, collaboration, problem-solving, and communication.
Students will explore the idea of representation, specifically in photography form in order to build a portfolio of work that can be manipulated and reviewed through a range of computer programs. Students will take their own photographs and create their own exhibitions.
Visual Art
Art
Art is a powerful form to express your opinion and emotions, as it illustrates ideas that words cannot express. In this elective, students will create artworks with different materials and techniques to develop a personal art style. Students will use the exploration process to help them select and plan appropriate materials and processes for their final works. They will critically reflect on the viewpoints and contribution of artists and use this analysis to inform their own creative ideas they want to present to an audience. This course highlights how Art is a different language and encourages students to exercise their perceptual and conceptual skills to express their own ideas visually.
Music
Backstage Pass
Do you hate singing? go play drums or guitar, slap the bass or twinkle on the keys if singing isn’t your thing. Navigate the inner workings of a band and find your own voice and style whatever that maybe, all in your own private studio.
Once you’ve figured out what you like to play, learn why it all works and what it takes to put on a professional show.
Everyone in the music industry knows the DJ gets paid first, so next figure out how to use a mixing desk and set up a live sound system.
Once you’ve worked out what you like to play, learn why it all works and what it takes to put on a professional show.
Want to take over the world with with your band? Design a fake world tour with your favorite artist or your imaginary band where you are the star. Cheap hotels, all night roads trips, planning every aspect of your tour, the sky's the limit. If that’s not your bag plan a local or Australian tour by researching the local music scene.
The Studio Sessions
Do you like creating music? Would you like to hear your music recorded? The Studio Sessions is a music composing and recording class designed to expose students to both music instruments and music technology. Students use the latest music recording programs to record as a band or individually and create music in a variety of genres. They can choose to focus on their musicality or the recording/engineering side of music and have the opportunity to design and build a model of their very own dream studio.
Music Mastery
Composing, notation, timing and performance. The terms you will focus upon when you choose to be a Music Master. This class is an in depth study of notation, rhythm, performing and improving yourself as a musician. Students explore Improvisation and soloing whilst further strengthening their timing by performing in small groups. To finish the semester students compose and notate their own piece of music.
Year 9 Production (music stream)
In this elective you will have the opportunity to perform onstage in a professional theatre environment. You will collaborate closely together as a team, planning, creating and building on your music skills.
Activities will include:
- Learning wide range of music styles
- Work with a conductor to convey emotion/storyline
- Working collaboratively as a band
- Reading music notation
- Rehearsals
- Developing advanced aural skills