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• VCAMAM030

  Develop skills with media technologies to shape space, time, colour, movement and lighting, within images, sounds or text when telling stories

  Elaborations

  • creating a short digital sequence that uses camera angles such as close-ups and medium close-ups to focus on character relationships, power relationships or mood
  • designing and creating an animated sequence that personifies inanimate objects
  • identifying and applying the conventions of web page design to engage and interact with a particular audience
  • editing a chase sequence, adding music to heighten the action and tension
  • editing images or soundtrack of a story to change or emphasise meaning, for example, using framing to represent tension between characters

  VCAMAM030 | The Arts | Media Arts | Levels 5 and 6 | Media Arts Practices

• Media Arts: Levels 5 and 6 description

  In Levels 5 and 6, students develop their use of structure, intent, character and settings by incorporating viewpoints and genre conventions in their media art works. They explore and use media technologies and media elements such as time, space, sound, colour, movement and lighting, and evaluate...

  Level description | The Arts | Media Arts

• Visual Arts: Level C description

  In Level C, students explore visual arts. They explore and learn about how to make visual representations of their ideas, experiences, observations and imagination.

  Students become aware of how artists, craftspeople and designers present their ideas. They learn how their ideas can be developed....

  Level description | The Arts | Visual Arts

• Visual Arts: Level D description

  In Level D, students explore visual arts. They learn about how to make visual representations of their ideas, experiences, observations and imagination.

  Students become aware of how and begin to explore why artists, craftspeople and designers present their ideas through different visual representations...

  Level description | The Arts | Visual Arts

• Media Arts: Levels 7 and 8 description

  In Levels 7 and 8, students build on their understanding of structure, intent, character, settings, viewpoints and genre conventions in their media artworks.

  Students extend use of media technologies and their understanding of story principles and media elements, such as the use of time, space,...

  Level description | The Arts | Media Arts

• VCAVAE005

  Explore materials to create visual artworks

  Elaborations

  • exploring their environment including images, textures and space and responding through creating visual artworks and design
  • creating artworks such as a painting or collage by identifying the colours and materials they want through simple choices making such as pointing, reaching or communicating what they want to use, for example the colour from a field of two or three choices and adding them with assistance to their artwork
  • making artworks in response to their environment or specific stimuli such as music, an object or event
  • exploring the use of colour and materials before and during creation of visual artworks or design
  • creating artworks in structured activities which related to self, others and personal environments in different forms, for example, painting, sculpture, photography of self
  • exploring different art, craft and design styles from other cultures

  VCAVAE005 | The Arts | Visual Arts | Level B | Explore and Express Ideas

• VCAVAE001

  Experience creation of visual artworks

  Elaborations

  • experiencing the sound, smell and feel of various objects, react to the sensory stimulus and creating art work as a response to the experience
  • creating visual art works with support, for example their own hands are support as they use art materials such as paint and paper to create visual art works
  • exposed to sensory art experience and making basic choices by reaching for, touching, dropping materials, colours, objects
  • holding various objects, utensils for short periods of time, exploring the use of art equipment
  • exposed to colour, texture, materials used or which can be used

  VCAVAE001 | The Arts | Visual Arts | Level A | Explore and Express Ideas

• The Arts | Media Arts: Learning in Media Arts

  In Media Arts students engage with communications technologies and cross-disciplinary art forms to design, produce, distribute and interact with a range of print, audio, screen-based or hybrid artworks. Students explore, view, analyse and participate in media culture from a range of viewpoints...

  Overview material | Media Arts

• The Arts | Visual Arts: Learning in Visual Arts

  Learning in Visual Arts involves students making and responding to artworks, drawing on the world as a source of ideas. Students engage with and develop knowledge of visual arts, skills, techniques and processes, and use materials as they explore a range of forms, styles and contexts.

  Through...

  Overview material | Visual Arts

• 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

• VCAVAE021

  Explore ideas, experiences, observations and imagination and express them through subject matter in visual artworks they create

  Elaborations

  • looking at an artworks and present a range of interpretations of the subject matter based on their ideas, experiences, observations and/or imagination
  • observing and recording the people and objects they experience in their daily lives using different art forms and materials
  • exploring the use of visual conventions in artworks, for example, what colours were used, and how, why is the colour it used in this way?, and express these conventions in their own artworks
  • drawing images and making objects related to self, others and personal environments in different forms, for example, painting, sculpture, photography
  • identifying and using visual conventions in their artworks focusing on different styles, subject matter and art forms from different cultures and historical periods, including artworks by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples

  VCAVAE021 | The Arts | Visual Arts | Levels 1 and 2 | Explore and Express Ideas

• VCAVAV014

  Explore different materials and techniques to make artworks

  Elaborations

  • exploring different ways of using visual arts elements, principles, skills, techniques and processes, materials and technologies
  • creating two-dimensional and three-dimensional art works in structured learning experiences for example using mark-making and collage media, materials and techniques in two- and three-dimensional art works or using materials, such as paste, cloth, wood, ceramics, beads and clay to create two-dimensional and three-dimensional art works
  • mixing colours to make and explore secondary colours
  • exploring textures and shapes through their artworks and designs
  • exploring a range of natural and man-made materials and technologies to visually express their experiences, for example, paint, pencils, sand, photography
  • comparing the qualities and properties of materials such as paint, crayons, clay and found objects and select appropriate applications to represent something or someone they like

  VCAVAV014 | The Arts | Visual Arts | Level D | Visual Arts Practices

• VCAMAE033

  Experiment with the organisation of ideas to structure stories through settings, genre conventions and viewpoints, in images, sounds and text

  Elaborations

  • creating multiple representations of the same person, place or concept, using different media, to create different viewpoints.in media artworks
  • experimenting with use of images, sounds and text and selected conventions to challenge existing stereotypes in society
  • combining established genre conventions such as framing in still and moving image, sound in radio plays or audio-visual artworks, and font size, shape and colour in print

  VCAMAE033 | The Arts | Media Arts | Levels 7 and 8 | Explore and Represent Ideas

• VCAMAM026

  Use media technologies to create time and space through the manipulation of images, sounds and text when telling stories

  Elaborations

  • experimenting with camera placement and settings to frame the subject, using basic shot types, angles and lighting to control picture space
  • applying text to accompany still or moving images, for example credits in a title sequence selecting appropriate fonts, colour and suitable length of time for display
  • practising recording sound on a variety of devices to explore volume, layering and the use of voice to create a sense of place
  • experimenting with ways of formatting and laying out a story using software and appropriate text conventions, for example, for the front page of a newspaper story

  VCAMAM026 | The Arts | Media Arts | Levels 3 and 4 | Media Arts Practices

• 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

• VCAMAR008

  Respond to media artworks

  Elaborations

  • indicating what they liked in an artwork by pointing
  • demonstrating artworks they like through repeated viewing and choice making, for example selecting an image to indicate media artwork they want to view, picture/ song do you want/ like
  • exploring and responding to artworks as part of an audience for a short period of time
  • experience media artworks at school and in the local community
  • exploring features of media artworks by indicating elements they like, such as sound, image, colour

  VCAMAR008 | The Arts | Media Arts | Level B | Respond and Interpret

• VCAMUE040

  Improvise and arrange music, using aural awareness and technical skills to manipulate the elements of music to explore options for interpretation and developing music ideas

  Elaborations

  • using listening skills and memory to identify, sing and notate pitch and rhythm patterns, intervals and familiar chord changes
  • improvising and using technologies to develop the texture of a composition, for example, exploring instrumentation, dynamics and expressive techniques, using digital tools to create and manipulate tone colour
  • experimenting with layering of sound to develop a personal style in improvisation and composition
  • applying aural understanding of key and tonality when improvising and composing

  VCAMUE040 | The Arts | Music | Levels 9 and 10 | Explore and Express Ideas

• VCAMUP027

  Rehearse and perform songs and instrumental music they have learnt and composed, shaping elements of music to communicate ideas to an audience

  Elaborations

  • rehearsing and performing music using a range of techniques including technologies to enhance mood
  • planning and rehearsing their music for a live or virtual performance, for example, deciding where the performers will stand, how they will begin and end, practising following cues from the music and other members of the group
  • refining their compositions and performances based on peer and teacher evaluations and with a focus on specific music technique and elements
  • developing and refining techniques on a range of conventional and unconventional melodic and non-melodic percussion instruments, voice, and digital instruments to create and vary tone colour and expression

  VCAMUP027 | The Arts | Music | Levels 3 and 4 | Present and Perform

• VCAVAR020

  Respond to visual artworks and consider where and why people make visual artworks

  Elaborations

  • identifying the subject matter of a series of artworks based on the same theme
  • identifying how design elements, such as line, shape, colour or texture, are used in their artworks and in the artworks of others
  • identifying and describing the expression of ideas in a selection of artworks, for example, considering the subject matter, styles and techniques of a selection of artworks from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander artists
  • discussing the role of artist and audience when expressing ideas in artworks

  VCAVAR020 | The Arts | Visual Arts | Foundation Level | Respond and Interpret

• VCAVAR012

  Respond to visual artworks by indicating subject matter

  Elaborations

  • responding to various visual arts, for example study visual components within a picture
  • participating as an audience member by moving around quietly and looking at art pieces
  • communicating about aspects of their own and others art works, by pointing to and naming some of the basic features, for example some colours and items used in art works
  • considering the subject matter, styles of a selection of artworks, and how the artworks make them think and feel
  • experiencing the role of artist and audience as they start to interpret meaning in artworks

  VCAVAR012 | The Arts | Visual Arts | Level C | Respond and Interpret