Year 11 Design Photography Introduction

Subject Overview

Term 1
Students are introduced to their overall brief for the year and learn about the importance of branding and identity development. They will participate in the process of learning about different photographic processes and procedures specific to the genres of documentary and portrait photography and explore a range of artist models from New Zealand and around the world. This learning is further developed by the introduction of collage as a photographic convention. During this time, they will attend a Photographic walking tour of the city and utilise specialist studio photography equipment at school. Near the end of the term, they will look at branding for their brief to develop the Name of their festival, formulate their aesthetic and begin to design a masthead. Throughout this term they will be introduced to Photoshop as appropriate and this leaning will continue to progress over the next 3 terms.

Term 2
This term the focus will be exploring how photographic ideas can be integrated with design ideas to produce unique outcomes.
Students will be introduced to design principals and procedures as well as a variety of established contemporary designers. They will apply their learning to the completion of their masthead and extend this learning into the application of the masthead onto a cover. Students will complete this work in using Photoshop, further building upon the skills developed in Term 1. They will explore design practice by working through ideas sequentially.
Later on in the term, students will begin to look at the way in which art is viewed and valued and how the context of the work changes this, specifically in the New Zealand context, as they study traditional Māori art forms and contemporary practising Māori artists and designers. Students will explore the concept of blurring media boundaries and create art based on design, typography and traditional and contemporary Maori artistic practice.

Term 3
Students will continue to explore the application of traditional practice in a contemporary way by revisiting their portraiture skills and further developing their skills and knowledge by exploring photographic conventions of studio projection – exploring shadow and light, or digital processes using Photoshop to manipulate images. There is an opportunity for the students to further explore their application of their design and artistic process in the MakerSpace. The students will begin their final brief which will be a double page spread. They are again required to work sequentially, following design procedures and continue to develop the specific aesthetic they decided upon in Term 1, but now with a range of new ideas, skills and imagery.

Term 4
Students will learn about the importance of presentation and will present their work to date within a folio.

Following the submission of the portfolio, students will be introduced to new artist models and subject matter in preparation for the creation of a large-scale work. Students will learn about curating a show and be involved in the set-up of an on-site exhibition. Assessment will link to the development of ideas and the resolved exhibited work.