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• VCADRR024

  Respond to drama, expressing what they enjoy and why, and why people in their local area make and perform drama, including drama of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples

  Elaborations

  • identifying where they might experience drama in their community, for example, sharing experiences of attending a Tanderrum, or taking part in a drama performance in their community and considering how drama sustains and communicates cultural knowledge
  • talking about how voices, movement and space are used in drama they make and see
  • connecting to and sharing drama experiences through available digital access
  • discussing ways drama can show people’s different feelings about the world, based on their experiences of the environment and other people

  VCADRR024 | The Arts | Drama | Levels 1 and 2 | Respond and Interpret

• VCAMAE025

  Investigate and devise representations of people in their community, through settings, ideas and story structure in images, sounds and text

  Elaborations

  • creating a sequence of images, sounds and text or a combination of these, to clearly establish the beginning, middle and end of a story or an event
  • constructing realistic representations of the classroom and then re-constructing fictional versions of the same space
  • taking a series of photographs that show themselves and their friends as comic superheroes and villains, through setting, costume and body language
  • experimenting with tension to create and sustain meaning in the structure of a media artwork, for example, creating relationships between scenes in a documentary
  • experimenting with images to structure a narrative, for example, ordering and reordering images

  VCAMAE025 | The Arts | Media Arts | Levels 3 and 4 | Explore and Represent Ideas

• VCAMAR024

  Respond to media artworks and consider where and why people in their local area make media artworks, including media artworks of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples

  Elaborations

  • identifying where they might experience media artworks in their lives and communities, for example, considering how media artworks from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples sustain and communicate cultural knowledge
  • identifying the artistic intentions in media artworks they make and view
  • identifying features in media artworks, including elements such as time, sound, colour and lighting, and story principles such as characters and setting
  • identifying how media language and technologies are used to tell stories, for example, discussing how a family story is told using images and text

  VCAMAR024 | The Arts | Media Arts | Levels 1 and 2 | Respond and Interpret

• VCAVAP037

  Create and display artworks, describing how ideas are expressed to an audience

  Elaborations

  • apply ethical, environmental and sustainable choices when displaying a collection of visual artwork
  • justifying their choices for display or presentation of ideas in artworks or designs appropriate for a particular audience, for example, mounted and framed exhibition, a website, or as a children’s book
  • researching ideas for display or presentation, reflecting on different times, places and cultures, including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples
  • exploring social relationships as subject matter within artworks and how the display of these artworks reflects, challenges or extends the relationships between the artist and the audience

  VCAVAP037 | The Arts | Visual Arts | Levels 7 and 8 | Present and Perform

• VCADRE025

  Explore ideas and narrative structures through roles and situations and use empathy in their own improvisations and devised drama

  Elaborations

  • exploring and experiencing a range of roles and situations that they initiate and develop
  • making improvisations that explore issues and ideas using empathy
  • using elements of drama such as voice, movement, situation, time and place, and tension and the principles of stories to shape improvisations to communicate their intentions as drama makers
  • experimenting with tension, and creating dramatic meaning to sustain improvisations and process dramas
  • discussing how ideas and situations are developed in drama they see, for example, how did the drama begin, develop and conclude?, ‘How are elements of drama such as role, situation, time and place part of the action?, ‘How is the dramatic tension developed?’

  VCADRE025 | The Arts | Drama | Levels 3 and 4 | Explore and Express Ideas

• VCAVAR046

  Analyse, interpret and evaluate a range of visual artworks from different cultures, historical and contemporary contexts, including artworks by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples to explore differing viewpoints

  Elaborations

  • analysing the role of visual arts as a means of challenging prevailing traditional ideas, for example, how contemporary Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander artworks challenge prevailing traditional ideas about traditional art styles from this culture
  • identifying how visual arts professionals embed their values and beliefs, and how audiences react and interpret the meaning and intent of their artworks differently
  • discussing the range of viewpoints expressed about an artwork or art issue
  • considering the practices of visual arts practitioners when making commentaries about social, environmental and sustainability issues
  • interrogating the cultural and social roles and responsibilities of arts industries, recognising the power of the visual arts in advocating for, and being a catalyst for, change

  VCAVAR046 | The Arts | Visual Arts | Levels 9 and 10 | Respond and Interpret

• VCAVAR016

  Respond to visual artworks expressing what they like and dislike

  Elaborations

  • demonstrating acceptable audience behaviour viewing artworks
  • experiencing guided discussions to explore, identify and express the basic features of their own and others’ art works, identifying the main materials used, what features they like best and characteristics of their art works
  • experience art in their lives and communities, for example, assisting to create a class diary of ‘art experiences’ and recording visual artworks and their purpose, link to sustain and communicate cultural knowledge, matching artworks to their location and/ or who like what
  • exploring and learning how design elements, such as line, shape, colour or texture, are used in their artworks and in the artwork of others
  • experiencing and identifying the role of artist and audience

  VCAVAR016 | The Arts | Visual Arts | Level D | Respond and Interpret

• VCAVAR004

  React to visual artworks

  Elaborations

  • experiencing a range and various forms of visual art and may react to some stimuli such as images and objects or respond to art experiences, for example maintain attention, visual tracking
  • experiencing art in their lives and communities, for example, art gallery, local coffee shops, exhibitions with the school, special events visual artworks that sustain and communicate cultural knowledge
  • exposed to artworks which are from and made for different reasons/ purposes, displayed in different ways and using different processes
  • exposed to different design elements, such as line, shape, colour or texture, in their artworks and in the artwork of others
  • exposed to the role of artist and audience

  VCAVAR004 | The Arts | Visual Arts | Level A | Respond and Interpret

• VCAVAV035

  Experiment with materials, techniques, technologies and processes in a range of art forms to express ideas, concepts and themes in artworks

  Elaborations

  • imagining and refining their visual and spatial expressions of the world, combining a variety of materials, techniques and technologies
  • problem-solving with increasing confidence to expand their repertoire of visual arts practices and skills, for example, designing a mural for a local space
  • exploring artists use of materials and techniques to create artworks for public spaces, for example, researching the context of time and place, culture and ideology as an influence on the look and meaning of art in public spaces
  • developing and refining technical skills when designing and making visual arts images and objects, employing safe and sustainable practices
  • annotating their own and others’ art making by keeping a written or digital journal, or portfolio

  VCAVAV035 | The Arts | Visual Arts | Levels 7 and 8 | Visual Arts Practices

• VCAMUR016

  Respond to music and describe features they observe, including likes and dislikes

  Elaborations

  • exploring the basic features of their own and others’ music, through guided learning experiences to identifying the main elements, what features they like best
  • demonstrating acceptable audience behaviour when in the classroom and when attending school functions, for example watching for extended period of time and responding to performance and clapping at the conclusion
  • listening to and identifying simple musical patterns and changes to rhythm and tempo in music
  • contributing to classroom conversation about aspects of music have made or experienced
  • identifying where they might experience music in their lives and communities, for example, considering how music sustains and communicates a sense of identity and community
  • participating in discussion on social and cultural elements of music, for example Where is this music from? Why was it made? What is it about?
  • describing music using their own words and learnt music terminology, for example loud, soft, happy, sad
  • listening to and talking about music and musical instruments from different contexts and cultures

  VCAMUR016 | The Arts | Music | Level D | Respond and Interpret

• VCAVCDR011

  Analyse and evaluate the use of methods, media, materials, design elements and design principles in visual communications from different historical, social and cultural contexts, including presentations by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples

  Elaborations

  • investigate the methods used by designers to create visual communications, for example the methods the designer used that best suited the design style and aesthetic.
  • investigating the practices of designers from different cultures, for example, compare the practice of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander designers with other Australian designers
  • analysing and evaluating the use of visual imagery to persuade audience choice, for example, how designers use visual imagery to persuade their audiences
  • researching how design styles from different periods of time and cultures reflect their respective societies and cultures
  • discussing the use of design elements and design principles to communicate messages to different audiences in a range of contexts, for example, producing an advertisement for the same product in a magazine, on a billboard, and on a website
  • investigating and analysing the ways in which designers use materials, methods and media in sustainable practices to produce visual communications

  VCAVCDR011 | The Arts | Visual Communication Design | Levels 9 and 10 | Respond and Interpret