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Visual Communication Design

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Levels 7 and 8

Levels 7 and 8 Description

In Levels 7 and 8, students research and investigate the practices and viewpoints of designers in the creation of visual communications and gain an understanding of how to visually communicate ideas to an audience. They experiment and develop their skills in creative, critical and reflective thinking through the use of a design process. Students consider social, ethical, economic, and environmental...

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Levels 7 and 8 Content Descriptions

Explore and Represent Ideas

  1. Explore and apply methods, materials, media, design elements and design principles to create and present visual communications (VCAVCDE001)
    Elaborations
    1. experiment with combinations of design elements and principles to create visual communications that effectively communicate ideas.
    2. annotating the use of design elements and principles in visualisation drawings
    3. discussing the use of design elements and design principles in visual communications appropriate to the communication need, for example, posing questions such as ‘Which design elements and design principles help communicate their ideas clearly and why?’
    4. experimenting with a range of media and materials in a selected method, for example, printing, to develop and refine visual communications
    5. experimenting with two different methods to communicate an idea in visual communications, for example, illustration and photography
    6. justifying the use of methods to communicate ideas in visual communications, for example, which methods suit the style of the visual communication and the intended audience?

Levels 7 and 8 Achievement Standard

By the end of Level 8, students identify and describe how designers use visual communication practices to respond to briefs in different historical, social and cultural contexts. They apply this knowledge in the development of their own visual communication practices.

Students select and use appropriate drawing conventions, methods, materials, media, design elements and design principles to create effective visual communications.

Students evaluate how they and others are affected and influenced by visual communications from different cultures, times and places. They identify and describe practices of visual communication designers in visual communications from different cultures, times and places.

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