Photographic and Digital Media is a fun, exciting and engaging course, which equips students with skills and techniques desired in creative fields.
The course has been designed for students who engage in project based learning, are creative thinkers, problem solvers and have an interest in new technologies.
Contact
Head of Department: Tara Jongsma
Email: tjongsma@barker.nsw.edu.au
Year 9
This course runs alongside of the Visual Arts course and is structured similarly. Elective students would be able to carry their specialised skill set into the Stage 6 Visual Arts course and work in Photography or a digital medium for their Body of Work.
This course has been designed to be fun, exciting, engaging and will equip students with skills and techniques desired in creative fields. It enables students to represent their ideas and interests about the world, to engage in contemporary forms of communication and to understand and write about their world. They will study photography and filmmakers while developing their critical and creative thinking.
The Year 9 course focuses on still image making and covers units such as:
• Wet media photography - students learn how to use a manual SLR camera, film development and enlarging in the darkroom.
• Studio photography - students learn how to use studio lighting and camera lens and how to paint with light.
• Digital photography - students learn programs such as Adobe Lightroom and Photoshop. Students create a mini magazine, a zine, with their edited photographs.
Assessment
The practical component of the course is 60% and the theoretical component (critical and historical studies) is worth 40%. Photographic and Digital Media provides an excellent foundation for the study of Visual Arts at HSC level. It is not, however, a prerequisite for these courses.
Year 10
Photographic and Digital Media is a fun, exciting and engaging course, which equips students with skills and techniques desired in creative fields. It 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 by engaging in contemporary forms of communication. Students will study photographers and filmmakers while developing their critical and creative thinking.
This Visual Arts elective will allow opportunities for students to investigate photographic and digital media in greater depth than is currently possible through the multi-disciplinary focus of Visual Arts. Elective students will be able to carry their specialised skill set into the Stage 6 Visual Arts course and work in a digital medium for their practical tasks and their Body of Work.
The Year 10 course focuses on moving imagery and covers units such as:
• Broadcasting - students learn about green screens and live video mixing.
• Filmmaking - students learn programs such as Adobe Premiere Pro and After Effects.
• Animation or video mapping - students learn one or more of the following: stop motion animation, claymation, rotoscoping, video mapping.
The practical component of the course is 60% and the theoretical component (critical and historical studies) is worth 40%. Photographic and Digital Media provides an excellent foundation for the study of Visual Arts at HSC level. It is not, however, a prerequisite for these courses.