Photographic and Digital Media 7–10 Syllabus (2004)
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About the course
Photographic and digital media powerfully communicates ideas, identity, values and culture through images. The study of photographic and digital media enables young people to develop an interest in and enjoyment of investigating the rapidly evolving ideas, practices and technologies of this art form.
Through critical reflection and acquiring understanding, knowledge and skills, students respond to the ideas, art and arts practice of others, through creatively developing their own ideas and photographic and digital artworks.
Photographic and Digital Media provides opportunities for students to enjoy making and studying a range of photographic and digital media works. It enables students to represent their ideas and interests about the world, to engage in contemporary forms of communication and understand and write about their contemporary world. Photographic and Digital Media enables students to investigate new technologies, cultural identity and the evolution of photography and digital media into the 21st century. Students are provided with opportunities to make and study photographic and digital media works in greater depth and breadth than through the Visual Arts elective course.
The Photographic and Digital Media Years 7–10 syllabus includes Life Skills outcomes and content for students with special education needs.
Students learn about the pleasure and enjoyment of making different kinds of photographic and digital media works in still, interactive and moving forms. They learn to represent their ideas and interests with reference to contemporary trends and how photographers, videographers, film-makers, computer/digital and performance artists make photographic and digital media works.
Students learn about how photographic and digital media is shaped by different beliefs, values and meanings by exploring photographic and digital media artists and works from different times and places, and relationships in the artworld between the artist – artwork – world – audience. They also explore how their own lives and experiences can influence their making and critical and historical studies.
Students learn to make photographic and digital media works using a range of materials and techniques in still, interactive and moving forms, including ICT, to build a Photographic and Digital Media portfolio over time. They learn to develop their research skills, approaches to experimentation and how to make informed personal choices and judgements. They learn to record procedures and activities about their making practice in their Photographic and Digital Media journal. Students learn to investigate and respond to a wide range of photographic and digital media artists and works in making, critical and historical studies.
Students learn to interpret and explain the function of and relationships in the artworld between the artist – artwork – world – audience to make and study photographic and digital media artworks.
Board Developed Course
Course number(s):
- 2080 Photographic and Digital Media 200 hours
- 2081 Photographic and Digital Media 100 hours
- 2082 Photographic and Digital Media Life Skills 200 hours
- 2083 Photographic and Digital Media Life Skills 100 hours
Exclusions: Students may not access both the Photographic and Digital Media Years 7–10 outcomes and content and the Photographic and Digital Media Life Skills outcomes and content.
Photographic and Digital Media is an elective course that can be studied for 100 or 200 hours at any time after the completion of the Visual Arts 100-hour mandatory course.
Students are required to produce a Photographic and Digital Media portfolio and keep a Photographic and Digital Media journal.
Information about curriculum requirements for the RoSA are available on Assessment Certification Examination (ACE).
Assessment information and support
Teaching and learning support
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The Life Skills outcomes worksheet can be used to collect information on the outcomes that a student has achieved before recording them in Schools Online.