Thursday 13 September 2012
Wednesday 20 June 2012
Wednesday 13 June 2012
Memories assessment and deadlines
Theme: Memories
Unit 8:
Personal and Portfolio Development and Progression (Double
Award only)
Introduction
This unit involves you in the preparation of a
portfolio and the development of personal presentation and communication
skills, which will help you when planning your progression route. These are
common to pathways in:
• fine art
• design
• interactive media.
You will learn how to:
• prepare a portfolio of work for
presentation
• develop effective personal presentation
skills and communicate effectively to others about your work, interests and
aims
• prepare information about yourself and
use this in making presentations, attending mock interviews and in preparation
for progression interviews
• research employment within the sector
and higher education pathways
• explore and identify progression
routes, aims and goals.
This unit links to Unit 10: Professional Practice (Advanced) and the optional units at Advanced level
should also provide knowledge, understanding and ideas for this unit.
Unit 8 is part of the Memories project and will be
internally assessed through your portfolio work.
Tutors
will mark work and give written feedback once work is handed in. Students who
fail to meet a coursework deadline will be placed on sixth form report and
referred to the head of year.
What do you need to put in your folder?
8.a Personal presentation and
communication skills
How you
present yourself is often as important as how you present your work. You need
to be able to present yourself at a mock interview. Presentation skills include
body language, dress codes and an awareness of social conventions.
What
have you achieved?
Deadlines
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Coursework requirements
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Have you kept records of group criticism?
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Have you kept records of one to one
tutorials?
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Have you kept records of mock interviews?
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Have you kept records of FE/Job mock or
real interview?
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Have you kept records of
presentations/displays of work to audience/peers?
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Have you evaluated how well you have
communicated to audience/peers?
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8.b Portfolio presentation
techniques
All
artists, craftspeople and designers present work in a portfolio when displaying
evidence of their skills, knowledge, understanding and quality of work. You
need to prepare a portfolio of your work.
What
have you achieved?
Deadlines
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Coursework requirements
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Have you summarised techniques used to
mount/display work?
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Have you summarised any supporting
information (CD, DVD, Blog, brief etc.)?
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Have you summarised of order/organisation/contents
of your folio?
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Have you evaluated your portfolio linked
to specialist chosen area?
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8.c Identifying and pursuing progression
goals
What
have you achieved?
Deadlines
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Coursework requirements
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Have you identified a wide range of FE
and other alternative courses/career routes available?
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Have you identified employee/university
requirements?
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Have you written a statement describing your
portfolio?
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Have you responded to feedback and
criticism?
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Have you written a personal statement?
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Have you collated your records of
achievement?
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Have you written a CV/personal record
that reflects your specialist pathway?
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Theme: Memories
Unit 10: Professional Practice (Double Award
only)
Introduction
This is a practical unit where you will investigate and apply the
requirements of professional practice by working safely, legally and
professionally. You will need to adopt a professional approach by
working
within health and safety guidelines, by giving consideration to legal
matters and when communicating with others.
This unit underpins all practical activities and your work for this unit
should be based on, and delivered through, your integrated project work.
You should be encouraged to respond to projects or briefs that simulate
professional practice.
You will learn:
• how professionals work on a day-to-day basis
• how to analyse the constraints on professional practice and relate
these to your work
• to observe health and safety practices.
This unit provides an opportunity to develop the skills you will need
for
Unit 11: Develop and Produce Own Ideas. This
unit links to all other A2
units — Unit 8: Personal and Portfolio Development and Progression,
Unit 11: Develop and Produce Own Ideas and the optional units, Unit 12:
Fine Art, Unit 14: Multimedia.
This unit will be internally assessed through your portfolio work.
Unit 10 is part of the Memories project and will be
internally assessed through your portfolio work.
Tutors
will mark work and give written feedback once work is handed in. Students who
fail to meet a coursework deadline will be placed on sixth form report and
referred to the head of year.
What do you need to put in your folder?
10.1
Investigate and analyse professional practice
You
should understand how professional artists, craftspeople and designers work on
projects and design briefs, individually and in teams, on a day-today basis.
What
have you achieved?
Deadlines
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Coursework requirements
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Have you researched how artists prepare
briefs/proposals?
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Have you researched how artists plan
projects?
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Have you researched how artists liaise
with clients/public?
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Have you researched artist’s approaches
and attitude towards their specialist areas?
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Have you researched how artists modify
and develop ideas to prototype?
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Have you researched how artists choose
materials, techniques and processes?
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Have you researched how artists respond
to constraints (E.g. costs, scale, space, resources, time etc.)?
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Have you researched how artists consider
the viability of an artwork?
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10.2
Apply and develop professional practice to your own work
You will
need to learn how to improve your own practice by relating it to professional
working practices. Improving your work involves analysing the strengths and
weaknesses of your work, and comparing your approach with what you have learned
about professional practice.
Your work
may also be affected by constraints that will influence the final outcome.
What
have you achieved?
Deadlines
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Coursework requirements
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Have you explained how
constraints applied
in professional practice could affect your final outcome, such as feedback
from clients or users, cost of resources, health and safety?
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Have you explained the
commercial viability of your final outcome and how your final outcome would
be produced or manufactured on a commercial scale?
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Have you considered any professional constraints that
might influence your ideas?
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Have you researched artist’s approaches
and attitude towards their specialist areas?
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Have you explored how commercial viability affects the
development of your ideas?
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Have
you investigated methods of commercial-scale production or manufacture for
chosen work?
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Have
you applied your developing understanding of professional working practice
to improving your work?
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10.3
Investigate and apply health and safety and legal requirements
You will
need to summarise the main areas of health and safety legislation affecting the
practice and environment you work in. It is important that you understand and
apply the appropriate legislation when you are working.
What
have you achieved?
Deadlines
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Coursework requirements
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Have you read, understood and highlighted
areas of Art and design health and Safety legislation that apply to your
practise?
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Have you researched and applied specific health and safety
measures that relate to your own materials, techniques and processes used?
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10.4
Undertake a Professional Approach
What
have you achieved?
Deadlines
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Coursework requirements
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Have
you explained how you
have managed your workload effectively?
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Have
you explained how you have used organisational skills to fulfil obligations and
commitments?
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Have
you explained how you have used time management to meet deadlines?
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Have you
displayed good communication skills; being honest, punctual, courteous and
respectful to others?
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Have
you explained how you followed health and safety guidelines and
demonstrating compliance with legal issues, eg copyright, equal opportunities?
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Unit 9: Contextual References
Introduction
In this unit you will become familiar
with a wide range of historical and
contemporary work created by artists,
craftspeople and designers. You will
carry out research and use the results
to influence your own work.
You will learn:
• research skills for identifying and recording relevant information about
the working methods of artists,
craftspeople and designers
• to investigate and analyse how visual language, materials and
techniques have been used by other
people
• about the influences on artists, craftspeople and designers and their
work
• the vocational contexts of their work, eg commissions
• to research and use historical and contemporary references in your
work.
You will:
• need to use the skills you learned in Unit 1: 2D and 3D Visual Language
when exploring others’ work
• use the research skills you gain to support your work in Unit 11:
Develop and
Produce Own Ideas and the A2
optional units
• use your understanding of contemporary art, craft or design in
researching professional practice to
support your work in Unit 10:
Professional
Practice and your
progression aims for Unit 8: Personal
and
Portfolio Development and Progression.
This unit will be internally assessed
through your portfolio work.
Unit 9 is part of the Memories project and will be
internally assessed through your portfolio work.
Tutors
will mark work and give written feedback once work is handed in. Students who
fail to meet a coursework deadline will be placed on sixth form report and
referred to the head of year.
What do you need to learn?
9.1
Research historical and contemporary work, understanding the context in which
the work was influenced
All
artists, craftspeople and designers use research skills to develop their work.
You need to be able to research facts and visual information about artists,
craftspeople and designers and present these in the form of a Blog.
9.2
Record and present information explaining the use of visual language in other’s
work
It is
important that you organise, maintain and label your records of information so
that they are readily available and accessible. Sketchbooks and folders/files
should be used to collate research notes and sketches from
classes, lectures and visits to galleries and museums. Findings should be presented in your Blog.
9.3 Use
contextual references in your work
Some
assignments and briefs provide opportunities for you to explore the work of
other artists, craftspeople and designers. You need to know how to produce work
that uses, and relates to, historical and contemporary influences. This will
involve:
What
have you achieved?
Deadlines
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Coursework requirements
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Have you completed a post on art and
design research skills?
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Have you created an effective Blog to
plan and document the progress of your project?
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Have you created the following post headings on your blog? Brief and proposal, Memories brain storm,
Artist Analysis, Summer Project sources, Gallery/Museum visits, Research
evaluation, Artist Responses linked to formal elements, In-depth Response to
Chosen Artist/specialist pathway, Window installation plan, Final outcome and
Evaluation, Links.
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Have you completed the project brief and proposal?
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Have you used your box file to collect and record a wide range of
primary sources during your summer holidays? (E.g drawings, photos, notes,
video, found objects, post cards and leaflets etc).
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Have you completed a brain storm/mindmap supporting the Memories theme?
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Have you completed 5 to10 in-depth artist
analysis? E.g. key movements, styles,
schools and individuals in European and American art, craft and design. (Including
Howard Hodgkin, Audrey Flack, Jacques Nimki and Punch Drunk).
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Have you documented gallery and museum visits?
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Have you created a time-line of art and artist studied covering
pre-1900s to the current day?
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Have you evaluated your research findings so far?
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Have you used your
research to complete both 2D and 3D responses focusing on, Line, shape and colour?
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Have you used your
research to complete both 2D and 3D responses focusing on scale, form and structure?
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Have you used your
research completed both 2D and 3D responses focusing on Surface pattern and
texture?
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Have you completed
your window installation?
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Have you evaluated your final installation?
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