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  • The Arts | Visual Communication Design: Learning in Visual Communication Design

    In Visual Communication Design, students develop the skills and practice to communicate ideas and messages in visual communications. Visual communication design practice includes the use of design thinking skills and design as a process. Drawing conventions and the use of design elements and principles...

    Overview material | Visual Communication Design

  • VCAMAE013

    Explore ideas, characters and settings through stories in images, sounds and multi-modal texts

    Elaborations

    • using a variety of media equipment to create a poster
    • using a basic graphics software program to create visual and sound picture cards
    • using software program to create and present own rhythmic composition or sound piece
    • creating media artwork for a social purpose such as a local community event
    • experimenting with image, for example, using images to represent an idea, location or event
    • exploring composition by selecting images and/or sounds to create a representation of a well-known story or song or character in well-known stories or songs

    VCAMAE013 | The Arts | Media Arts | Level D | Explore and Represent Ideas

  • VCAMAP015

    Present media artworks that communicate a simple idea or story

    Elaborations

    • identifying the main features of a media art piece
    • creating art pieces to communicate ideas, concepts, feels and/ or experiences
    • creating a visual and sound picture card or poster using graphic software with the intention to meet an audience need, for example retell familiar l story or event to share with the class
    • exploring viewpoints – societies and cultures: For example, what images will I use to tell my story, or represent an event?
    • collecting and sharing, with permission of the people involved, class stories and presenting them in the form of a class photo story or PowerPoint
    • assisting in the producing and presenting of a media artwork for a particular purpose, for example, creating a poster about behaviour when using cameras in the room

    VCAMAP015 | The Arts | Media Arts | Level D | Present and Perform

  • VCAVAE013

    Explore ideas, experiences and observations to create visual artworks

    Elaborations

    • experiencing a variety of learning experiences that encourage them to express and communicate experiences, observations, ideas and feelings about themselves and their world
    • creating arts works that have a social purpose, e.g. Easter egg, birthday card
    • using a variety of basic tools and materials safely to create visual art works including constructions and sculptures
    • participating in teacher directed class discussions which enable students to learn, discuss and express opinions about the available ways to create and make art works
    • using colour and/ or shape to communicate moods or feelings in their artworks
    • practicing drawing images and making objects related to self and personal environments in different forms, for example, painting, sculpture, photography
    • using visual conventions in their artworks after exploring different art, craft and design styles and techniques from other cultures and times, for example, Expressionism, Fauvism, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples, and Asia

    VCAVAE013 | The Arts | Visual Arts | Level D | Explore and Express Ideas

  • The Arts | Dance: Resources

    A range of resources to assist with implementing the Victorian Curriculum F – 10 are available. Please visit the following websites to access these resources (links open in a new window):

    Includes general advice and information...

    Overview material | Dance

  • The Arts | Drama: Resources

    A range of resources to assist with implementing the Victorian Curriculum F – 10 are available. Please visit the following websites to access these resources (links open in a new window):

    Includes general advice and information...

    Overview material | Drama

  • The Arts | Media Arts: Resources

    A range of resources to assist with implementing the Victorian Curriculum F – 10 are available. Please visit the following websites to access these resources (links open in a new window):

    Includes general advice and information...

    Overview material | Media Arts

  • The Arts | Music: Resources

    A range of resources to assist with implementing the Victorian Curriculum F – 10 are available. Please visit the following websites to access these resources (links open in a new window):

    Includes general advice and information...

    Overview material | Music

  • The Arts | Visual Arts: Resources

    A range of resources to assist with implementing the Victorian Curriculum F – 10 are available. Please visit the following websites to access these resources (links open in a new window):

    Includes general advice and information...

    Overview material | Visual Arts

  • The Arts | Visual Communication Design: Resources

    A range of resources to assist with implementing the Victorian Curriculum F – 10 are available. Please visit the following websites to access these resources (links open in a new window):

    Includes general advice and information...

    Overview material | Visual Communication Design

  • VCAVAP044

    Create, present, analyse and evaluate displays of artwork considering how ideas can be conveyed to an audience

    Elaborations

    • visiting galleries, art museums and public art displays, in formal and informal settings, to research the role of the curator and the evaluate the effective display or exhibition of artworks
    • exploring a range of artworks in different settings and discuss how the location can influence the viewer’s understanding of the artwork.
    • developing and expressing ideas as images, objects and spaces for example, presenting artworks and highlight how artworks demonstrate the interaction between the artist and the audience
    • discussing the presentation and relationships of artworks in an exhibition, and how the display enhances the relationship between the artist and audience
    • applying ethical understandings to a theme, concept or subject matter when making their artworks.
    • investigating the role of commercial galleries and collectors in the making of artworks, for example, sponsorship of work and artworks commissioned for a commercial business
    • documenting experiences and observations from visiting an exhibition and apply this knowledge to develop a physical or virtual exhibition of their own or others’ artworks

    VCAVAP044 | The Arts | Visual Arts | Levels 9 and 10 | Present and Perform

  • VCAMAE029

    Explore representations, characterisations and viewpoints of people in their community, using stories, structure, settings, and genre conventions in images, sounds and text

    Elaborations

    • applying the conventions of an established genre to an ordinary everyday event to create humour, for example, a visit to the library as an action movie or lunch as a sports commentary on the radio
    • exploring different power relationships and showing different perspectives on characters by framing images, for example, representing a power relationship drawn from their school or community
    • designing and drawing a game character for a particular genre, considering the appropriate costume, mannerisms and genre-specific dialogue
    • selecting combinations of media materials to represent the same person, location or idea in different ways in a multimodal form, for example, using different music or sound effects or images to represent the same story

    VCAMAE029 | The Arts | Media Arts | Levels 5 and 6 | Explore and Represent Ideas

  • VCAMAE009

    Explore different ways of representing characters and settings through images, sounds and multi-modal texts

    Elaborations

    • indicating the music and image they want in a photostory during a structured session
    • using photographic device to take a picture to represent a setting, character or story and use photo shop with assistance
    • exploring sound to communicate ideas, for example, selecting a sound sample to accompany an image, making sound/ music while watching a video and attaching sound to video
    • exploring composition by selecting images and/or sounds to create the characters in well-known stories or songs or represent a well-known story or idea
    • following rules to make multimodal text and use technologies safely

    VCAMAE009 | The Arts | Media Arts | Level C | Explore and Represent Ideas

  • 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

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