Arts Study Designs
Visual Communication
Units 1-4
Visual communication design can inform people’s decisions about where and how they live and what they buy and consume. The visual presentation of information influences people’s choices about what they think, what they need or want. The study provides students with the opportunity to develop informed, critical and discriminating approaches to understanding and using visual communications, and nurtures their ability to think creatively about design solutions.
Design thinking, which involves the application of creative, critical and reflective techniques, supports skill development in areas beyond design, including science, business, marketing and management. The rapid acceleration of the capabilities and accessibility of digital design technologies has brought new challenges to visual communication design practices. Through the consideration of ethical and environmental sustainability issues, students are able to make informed choices that affect current and future practices. The study of Visual Communication Design can provide pathways to training and tertiary study in design and design-related studies, including communication, industrial and fashion design, architecture and media.
YEAR 11 - Unit 1: Introduction to visual communication design (2018-2023)
Unit 1 Outcome 1: Drawing as a means of communication - Create drawings for different purposes using a range of drawing methods, media and materials.
Unit 1 Outcome 2: Design element and design principles - Select and apply design elements and design principles to create visual communications that satisfy stated purposes.
Unit 1 Outcome 3: Visual communication in context - Describe how a visual communication has been influenced by past and contemporary practices, and by social and cultural factors.
YEAR 11 - Unit 2: Applications of visual communication within design fields (2018-2023)
Unit 2 Outcome 1: Technical drawing in context - Create presentation drawings that incorporate relevant technical drawing conventions and effectively communicate information and ideas for a selected design field.
Unit 2 Outcome 2: Type and imagery in context - Manipulate type and images to create visual communications suitable for print and screen-based presentations, taking into account copyright.
Unit 2 Outcome 3: Apply the design process - Engage in stages of the design process to create a visual communication appropriate to a given brief.
YEAR 12 - Unit 3: Visual communication design practices (2018-2023)
Unit 3 Outcome 1: Analysis and practice in context - The primary focus of this unit is to provide students with the knowledge and skills to undertake a successful design process. Through the analysis of communication, environmental and industrial visual communication designs, students gain information and inspiration to create their own designs.
Unit 3 Outcome 2: Design industry practice - An investigation of design industry practices informs knowledge of how visual communication is produced within a professional industry context.
Unit 3 Outcome 3: Developing a brief and generating ideas - Students apply design thinking in preparing a brief with two commication needs for a client, undertaking research and generating a range of ideas relevant to the brief.
YEAR 12 - Unit 4: Visual communication design development, evaluation and presentation (2018-2023)
Unit 4 Outcome 1 & 2 & 3: Major Folio
The focus of these units is the final stage of the design process where final presentations are produced and presented to meet the requirements of the brief. The pitch provides students with the opportunity to reflect on their work and articulate how the visual communication addresses the client needs. The pitch aims to promote the features of each final presentation.
Design thinking, which involves the application of creative, critical and reflective techniques, supports skill development in areas beyond design, including science, business, marketing and management. The rapid acceleration of the capabilities and accessibility of digital design technologies has brought new challenges to visual communication design practices. Through the consideration of ethical and environmental sustainability issues, students are able to make informed choices that affect current and future practices. The study of Visual Communication Design can provide pathways to training and tertiary study in design and design-related studies, including communication, industrial and fashion design, architecture and media.
YEAR 11 - Unit 1: Introduction to visual communication design (2018-2023)
Unit 1 Outcome 1: Drawing as a means of communication - Create drawings for different purposes using a range of drawing methods, media and materials.
Unit 1 Outcome 2: Design element and design principles - Select and apply design elements and design principles to create visual communications that satisfy stated purposes.
Unit 1 Outcome 3: Visual communication in context - Describe how a visual communication has been influenced by past and contemporary practices, and by social and cultural factors.
YEAR 11 - Unit 2: Applications of visual communication within design fields (2018-2023)
Unit 2 Outcome 1: Technical drawing in context - Create presentation drawings that incorporate relevant technical drawing conventions and effectively communicate information and ideas for a selected design field.
Unit 2 Outcome 2: Type and imagery in context - Manipulate type and images to create visual communications suitable for print and screen-based presentations, taking into account copyright.
Unit 2 Outcome 3: Apply the design process - Engage in stages of the design process to create a visual communication appropriate to a given brief.
YEAR 12 - Unit 3: Visual communication design practices (2018-2023)
Unit 3 Outcome 1: Analysis and practice in context - The primary focus of this unit is to provide students with the knowledge and skills to undertake a successful design process. Through the analysis of communication, environmental and industrial visual communication designs, students gain information and inspiration to create their own designs.
Unit 3 Outcome 2: Design industry practice - An investigation of design industry practices informs knowledge of how visual communication is produced within a professional industry context.
Unit 3 Outcome 3: Developing a brief and generating ideas - Students apply design thinking in preparing a brief with two commication needs for a client, undertaking research and generating a range of ideas relevant to the brief.
YEAR 12 - Unit 4: Visual communication design development, evaluation and presentation (2018-2023)
Unit 4 Outcome 1 & 2 & 3: Major Folio
The focus of these units is the final stage of the design process where final presentations are produced and presented to meet the requirements of the brief. The pitch provides students with the opportunity to reflect on their work and articulate how the visual communication addresses the client needs. The pitch aims to promote the features of each final presentation.
Art - Making & Exhibiting
Units 1-4
VCE ART - Making and Exhibiting (2023-2027)
Learning in the new VCE Art Making and Exhibiting course of study aims to provide students with opportunities to realise or exceed their potential as an emerging artist. Participants in the Art Making and Exhibiting course of study are encouraged to interpret both the real and virtual worlds we live in, to explore and express personalised views and opinions, to use the imagination, be creative, to build confidence and a sense of identity within the communities in which we live. The new course of study aims engage students in practical Art Making and Exhibiting activities so that students can build a transferable skill set that enables the creation of pathways to further education, training, or employment. Students are encouraged to work either independently and collaboratively, as learning from each other could facilitate the development of innovation and exciting ideas.
The focus of the VCE Art Making and Exhibiting course of study is on the practical experiences of making artworks combined with the preparation, planning and presentation of student artworks in an exhibition unified under a common theme. Students learn how to research the artistic practices of other artists so that they can find inspiration that could inform the creation of ideas and the communication of specific intentions. Develop an inquiry into the unique qualities and characteristics of materials, tools and equipment, the development and refinement of art making skills, techniques and processes in relation to preferred artforms. Understanding the Art Elements and the ways in which they can inform the exploration of subject matter, to design and plan artworks that express ideas or intentions is an important part of the art making process. Students participate in a study of, Local, National and International artists and artworks made in differing historical times and places and evaluate the ways in which their artworks have been, cared for, prepared and presented in art exhibitions and Galleries, both actual and virtual, is integral component of the course of study.
Learning in the new VCE Art Making and Exhibiting course of study aims to provide students with opportunities to realise or exceed their potential as an emerging artist. Participants in the Art Making and Exhibiting course of study are encouraged to interpret both the real and virtual worlds we live in, to explore and express personalised views and opinions, to use the imagination, be creative, to build confidence and a sense of identity within the communities in which we live. The new course of study aims engage students in practical Art Making and Exhibiting activities so that students can build a transferable skill set that enables the creation of pathways to further education, training, or employment. Students are encouraged to work either independently and collaboratively, as learning from each other could facilitate the development of innovation and exciting ideas.
The focus of the VCE Art Making and Exhibiting course of study is on the practical experiences of making artworks combined with the preparation, planning and presentation of student artworks in an exhibition unified under a common theme. Students learn how to research the artistic practices of other artists so that they can find inspiration that could inform the creation of ideas and the communication of specific intentions. Develop an inquiry into the unique qualities and characteristics of materials, tools and equipment, the development and refinement of art making skills, techniques and processes in relation to preferred artforms. Understanding the Art Elements and the ways in which they can inform the exploration of subject matter, to design and plan artworks that express ideas or intentions is an important part of the art making process. Students participate in a study of, Local, National and International artists and artworks made in differing historical times and places and evaluate the ways in which their artworks have been, cared for, prepared and presented in art exhibitions and Galleries, both actual and virtual, is integral component of the course of study.
Music
Units 1 - 4
VCE Music is based on active engagement in all aspects of music. Students develop and refine musicianship skills and knowledge and develop a critical awareness of their relationship with music as listeners, performers, creators and music makers. Students explore, reflect on and respond to the music they listen to, create and perform. They analyse and evaluate live and recorded performances, and learn to incorporate, adapt and interpret musical practices from diverse cultures, times and locations into their own learning about music as both a social and cultural practice. Students study and practise ways of effectively communicating and expressing musical ideas to an audience as performers and composers, and respond to musical works as an audience. The developed knowledge and skills provide a practical foundation for students to compose, arrange, interpret, reimagine, improvise, recreate and critique music in an informed manner.
In this study students are offered a range of pathways that acknowledge and support a variety of student backgrounds and music learning contexts, including formal and informal.
This study enables students to:
● develop and practise musicianship
● perform, create, arrange, improvise, analyse, recreate, reimagine and respond to music from diverse times, places, cultures and contexts including recently created music
● communicate understanding of cultural, stylistic, aesthetic and expressive qualities and characteristics of music
● explore and strengthen personal music interests, knowledge and experiences
● use imagination and creativity, and personal and social skills in music making
● access pathways to further education, training and employment in music
● participate and present in life-long music learning and the musical life of their community.
Year 11 – Unit 1: Organisation of music (2023 – 2027)
In this unit students explore and develop their understanding of how music is organised. By performing, creating, analysing and responding to music works that exhibit different approaches, students explore and develop their understanding of the possibilities of musical organisation.
Year 11 – Unit 2: Effect in music (2023 – 2027)
In this unit, students focus on the way music can be used to create an intended effect. By performing, analysing and responding to music works/examples that create different effects, students explore and develop their understanding of the possibilities of how effect can be created. Through creating their own music, they reflect this exploration and understanding.
Year 12 – Unit 3: Influence in music (2023 – 2027)
In this unit, through music making and responding, students focus on connections between music created in different times and/or places and the influence(s) of one on the other. Their music making involves the integrated music experiences of performing, creating and responding. They compose, arrange, interpret, reimagine, improvise, recreate, perform and critique music in a scaffolded manner that will lead to their project in Unit 4, where students become increasingly autonomous and self-directed and less dependent on teacher direction and support.
Year 12 – Unit 4: Project (2023 – 2027)
In this unit, students deepen their understanding of the influence of music by considering it at a personal level. They move from considering and reflecting on the influences in the works of others to applying new understandings of influence in their own music making. They are increasingly able to deliberate on and articulate their thinking and choices.
Students choose their own Area of Investigation. This may be:
● a style
● a performer
● a creator
● a musical genre
In this study students are offered a range of pathways that acknowledge and support a variety of student backgrounds and music learning contexts, including formal and informal.
This study enables students to:
● develop and practise musicianship
● perform, create, arrange, improvise, analyse, recreate, reimagine and respond to music from diverse times, places, cultures and contexts including recently created music
● communicate understanding of cultural, stylistic, aesthetic and expressive qualities and characteristics of music
● explore and strengthen personal music interests, knowledge and experiences
● use imagination and creativity, and personal and social skills in music making
● access pathways to further education, training and employment in music
● participate and present in life-long music learning and the musical life of their community.
Year 11 – Unit 1: Organisation of music (2023 – 2027)
In this unit students explore and develop their understanding of how music is organised. By performing, creating, analysing and responding to music works that exhibit different approaches, students explore and develop their understanding of the possibilities of musical organisation.
Year 11 – Unit 2: Effect in music (2023 – 2027)
In this unit, students focus on the way music can be used to create an intended effect. By performing, analysing and responding to music works/examples that create different effects, students explore and develop their understanding of the possibilities of how effect can be created. Through creating their own music, they reflect this exploration and understanding.
Year 12 – Unit 3: Influence in music (2023 – 2027)
In this unit, through music making and responding, students focus on connections between music created in different times and/or places and the influence(s) of one on the other. Their music making involves the integrated music experiences of performing, creating and responding. They compose, arrange, interpret, reimagine, improvise, recreate, perform and critique music in a scaffolded manner that will lead to their project in Unit 4, where students become increasingly autonomous and self-directed and less dependent on teacher direction and support.
Year 12 – Unit 4: Project (2023 – 2027)
In this unit, students deepen their understanding of the influence of music by considering it at a personal level. They move from considering and reflecting on the influences in the works of others to applying new understandings of influence in their own music making. They are increasingly able to deliberate on and articulate their thinking and choices.
Students choose their own Area of Investigation. This may be:
● a style
● a performer
● a creator
● a musical genre
