2015 Semester 1 Program

Subject: Stage 2 Visual Arts/Design

Teacher: Adam Rogers
Timeline
Term 1

Topic/Key Ideas

Intended Student Learning

Teaching Strategies/Differentiation

Students will be enrolling in this class with a

Students will become familiar with course
range of abilities in Photoshop from beginner
structure, expectations and schedule for
to experienced. All students should have a least
deadlines.
a rudimentary level of Photoshop ability.
Students will gain an understanding of how to

Course content will remain the same, but once

navigate and upload the course documentation
individual learning styles have been
through the Weebly Site.
determined expectations as to what can be
achieved and the level it can be achieved at
Students will gain a better understanding of
will be accelerated or decelerated accordingly.
what design is and how to achieve success in
this field.
Visual Study: Introduction
Students will gain a better understanding of the
Visual Study and how this course will run over Students with limited experience with writing will
Term 1.
be given effective instruction through one on one
help with the teacher.
Students will understand the necessity of
providing a variety of resources both primary
Visual Study: Observing (AS2, IE2)
and secondary.
Students will write Introduction to Visual
Students with limited experience with effective
Study titled Observing, Understanding and
research methodology will be given effective
Implementing
instruction through one on one help with the
teacher.

Introduction
Weebly
Course Outline

Calender
What Is Design?

Visual Communication

Environmental Design

Product Design

SACE Art Show

Awards
Visual Study 30%

Outline

Calender

Resources/Questions

Brief

Meeting client

Viewing location

Visual Study

Ned Rogers Workshop 1 Photoshop

Resources/Questions

Visual Study: Implementation (PA1, PA3)

Visual Study: Observing (AS2, IE2)

Learning Photoshop and learning to paint digitally.

Students with limited experience with effective

research methodology will be given effective
instruction through one on one help with the
teacher.

In this first week you will learn how to navigate

your way around Photoshop. Ned will share with
you ways to generate ideas, gather reference and
use your reference successfully. Learn how to set
up an effective workspace in Photoshop, set up
brushes and also keyboard shortcuts to create a
professional workflow.

Visual Study: Understanding (AS1, AS2)

Students with limited note taking experience will
also be given appropriate support.

Creating Thumbnails. Template provided.

Visual Study: Implementation (PA1, PA3)

Visual Study: Observing (AS2, IE2)

Students with limited experience with Photoshop

will be given effective instruction both through one
on one help with the teacher and Ned.

Students will be expected to ask questions,

record responses and conduct research.

Resources

Assessment

Weebly
SACE exemplars
Previous Student
Visual Studies
Books
DVDs
Magazines
Client

Weebly
Ned Rogers
WACOM tablets
Books
DVDs
Magazines

Due Wednesday
4/2/2015:
Introduction

Visual Study: Understanding (AS1, AS2)

Visual Study

Ned Rogers Workshop 2

Sketching

Resources/Questions

Students will be expected to annotate own

development.

Visual Study: Implementation (PA1, PA3)

Visual Study: Observing (AS2, IE2)

Sketching for Characters

Students with limited experience with effective

research methodology will be given effective
instruction through one on one help with the
teacher.

This week you will learn some techniques for

sketching and drawing characters. Learning topics
such as silhouette, archetype and character design.

Weebly
Ned Rogers
WACOM tablets
Books
DVDs
Magazines

Visual Study: Understanding (AS1, AS2)

Having fun sketching out different story and
character designs.

Students with limited note taking experience will

also be given appropriate support.

Due Wednesday
11/2/2015:
Min. 2 pages of
completed exercises
with supporting
annotations and
researched,
referenced
examples.

Visual Study: Observing (AS2, IE2)

Visual Study: Implementation (PA1, PA3)

Students will be expected to ask questions,

record responses and conduct research.

Visual Study: Understanding (AS1, AS2)

Visual Study

Ned Rogers Workshop 3 Composition

Resources/Questions

Students with limited experience with Photoshop

will be given effective instruction both through one
on one help with the teacher and Ned.

Students will be expected to annotate own

development.

Visual Study: Implementation (PA1, PA3)

Visual Study: Observing (AS2, IE2)

Composition.

Students with limited experience with effective

research methodology will be given effective
instruction through one on one help with the
teacher.

Composition is a natural innate sensibility but it is

learned through understanding the basic design
principles. Learning how to control and arrange all
the elements is one of the most important
fundamentals to understand how to create striking
paintings.
This week you will learn the fundamentals behind
composition. You will see ways to use striking and
compelling compositions in your paintings to lead
the viewers eye and create strong story and design
in your artwork. You will learn about very
traditional techniques and how they can be used
and pushed in a digital painting. We will go over
some simple compositional rules, how they work
and how you can break them also.
How to create and use the rule of thirds, breaking
up your canvas using various types of different

Visual Study: Understanding (AS1, AS2)

Students with limited note taking experience will
also be given appropriate support.
Visual Study: Implementation (PA1, PA3)
Students with limited experience with Photoshop
will be given effective instruction both through one
on one help with the teacher and Simon.

Weebly
Ned Rogers
WACOM tablets
Books
DVDs
Magazines

Due Wednesday
18/2/2015:
Min. 2 pages of
completed exercises
with supporting
annotations and
researched,
referenced
examples.

compositional rules.
Principles of composition, what they are and how
to control them.
Visual Study: Observing (AS2, IE2)

Students will be expected to ask questions,

record responses and conduct research.

Visual Study: Understanding (AS1, AS2)

Visual Study

Ned Rogers Workshop 4

Colour

Resources/Questions

Students will be expected to annotate own

development.

Visual Study: Implementation (PA1, PA3)

Visual Study: Observing (AS2, IE2)

Colouring a Character.

Students with limited experience with effective

research methodology will be given effective
instruction through one on one help with the
teacher.

This week you will take your character designs

from Week 2 and learn how to colour these.
See different techniques in Photoshop to add colour
to your designs.

Students with limited note taking experience will

also be given appropriate support.

Visual Study: Implementation (PA1, PA3)

Visual Study: Understanding (AS1, AS2)

Visual Study

Ned Rogers Workshop 5

Perspective

Resources/Questions

Visual Study: Understanding (AS1, AS2)

Visual Study: Observing (AS2, IE2)

Students will be expected to ask questions,
record responses and conduct research.

Weebly
Ned Rogers
WACOM tablets
Books
DVDs
Magazines

Due Wednesday
25/2/2015:
Min. 2 pages of
completed exercises
with supporting
annotations and
researched,
referenced
examples.

Students with limited experience with Photoshop

will be given effective instruction both through one
on one help with the teacher and Ned.

Students will be expected to annotate own

development.

Visual Study: Implementation (PA1, PA3)

Visual Study: Observing (AS2, IE2)

Perspective.

Students with limited experience with effective

research methodology will be given effective
instruction through one on one help with the
teacher.

This week you will see some simple ways to set up

perspective grids in 1, 2 and 3 point perspective.
See how planning out your perspective can really
help your composition as well as your
drawings/paintings. You will see a demo on how
you can incorporate your perspective grid into your
work.

Visual Study: Understanding (AS1, AS2)

Students with limited note taking experience will
also be given appropriate support.

Visual Study: Observing (AS2, IE2)

Visual Study: Implementation (PA1, PA3)

Students with limited experience with Photoshop

will be given effective instruction both through one

Students will be expected to ask questions,

record responses and conduct research.

Weebly
Ned Rogers
WACOM tablets
Books
DVDs
Magazines

Due Wednesday
4/3/2015:
Min. 2 pages of
completed exercises
with supporting
annotations and
researched,
referenced
examples.

on one help with the teacher and Simon.

Visual Study: Understanding (AS1, AS2)

Visual Study

Ned Rogers Workshop 6

Colour Theory

Resources/Questions

Students will be expected to annotate own

development.

Visual Study: Implementation (PA1, PA3)

Visual Study: Observing (AS2, IE2)

Colour Theory

Students with limited experience with effective

research methodology will be given effective
instruction through one on one help with the
teacher.

Learn about how you can start using colour in your

work. Learn how to really start creating a mood
and a feeling in your work and also how to use
color to direct the viewers eye around your
paintings. We will go over how to create and use
colour palettes, mixing colours and how/what
techniques to use in Photoshop to colour your
images. We will go through the colour wheel,
value, hue and temperature. See how to break these
large principles down into simple, easy to handle
steps that you can follow along with.

You will see different techniques for coloring your

images up from your B&W value studies and
learn how to do/control this process. We will be
looking at what references to use and how to use
them.

Weebly
Ned Rogers
WACOM tablets
Books
DVDs
Magazines

Visual Study: Understanding (AS1, AS2)

Students with limited note taking experience will
also be given appropriate support.
Visual Study: Implementation (PA1, PA3)

Due Wednesday
11/3/2015:
Min. 2 pages of
completed exercises
with supporting
annotations and
researched,
referenced
examples.

Students with limited experience with Photoshop

will be given effective instruction both through one
on one help with the teacher and Ned.

Visual Study: Observing (AS2, IE2)

Students will be expected to ask questions,

record responses and conduct research.

Visual Study: Understanding (AS1, AS2)

Visual Study

Ned Rogers Workshop 7

Own Paintings

Resources/Questions

Students will be expected to annotate own

development.

Visual Study: Implementation (PA1, PA3)

Visual Study: Observing (AS2, IE2)

Using colour in students OWN paintings.

Students with limited experience with effective

research methodology will be given effective
instruction through one on one help with the
teacher.

This week you will start your own paintings in

colour from the beginning of the painting process.
You will see ideas and techniques that you can use
to make this process much easier and far less
daunting. We will go through different ways to
start your paintings in colour and how to build this
process up and look at some speed painting
techniques, using photos in your paintings and

Visual Study: Understanding (AS1, AS2)

Students with limited note taking experience will
also be given appropriate support.

Weebly
Ned Rogers
WACOM tablets
Books
DVDs
Magazines

Due Wednesday
18/3/2015:
Min. 2 pages of
completed exercises
with supporting
annotations and
researched,
referenced

custom brushes.

Visual Study: Implementation (PA1, PA3)

Start painting in COLOUR. Have fun!

Students with limited experience with Photoshop

will be given effective instruction both through one
on one help with the teacher and Ned.

Visual Study: Observing (AS2, IE2)

examples.

Students will be expected to ask questions,

record responses and conduct research.

Visual Study: Understanding (AS1, AS2)

Visual Study

Ned Rogers Workshop 8

Final Painting

Resources/Questions

Students will be expected to annotate own

development.

Visual Study: Implementation (PA1, PA3)

Visual Study: Observing (AS2, IE2)

Final Demo

Students with limited experience with effective

research methodology will be given effective
instruction through one on one help with the
teacher.

This week students will see a more complex demo.

Sharing the process for how to complete a more
complicated painting starting directly in colour.
See how to add those finishing touches to your
painting to really tie them together. The demo with
show how to add textures and photos into your
painting. Learn how to use lighting, contrast and
saturation to push the viewer's eye around the
composition and using adjustment layers to get
your painting to have a really polished finish to it.
In this final week it will be your chance to pull
together a finished colored painting for your
portfolio using all the techniques you have learnt
through weeks 1 - 7.
Visual Study: Observing (AS2, IE2)

Weebly
Ned Rogers
WACOM tablets
Books
DVDs
Magazines

Visual Study: Understanding (AS1, AS2)

Students with limited note taking experience will
also be given appropriate support.
Visual Study: Implementation (PA1, PA3)
Students with limited experience with Photoshop
will be given effective instruction both through one
on one help with the teacher and Ned.

Students will be expected to ask questions,

record responses and conduct research.

Visual Study: Understanding (AS1, AS2)

10

Visual Study

Completing and
Compiling Visual Study

Students will be expected to annotate own

development.

Visual Study: Observing (AS2, IE2)

Visual Study: Observing (AS2, IE2)

Students must ensure that have sufficient evidence

to cover Performance Standards AS2 and IE2

Students with limited experience with effective

research methodology will be given effective
instruction through one on one help with the
teacher.

Visual Study: Understanding (AS1, AS2)

Weebly
SACE exemplars
Previous Student
Visual Studies

Due Wednesday
25/3/2015:
Min. 2 pages of
completed exercises
with supporting
annotations and
researched,
referenced
examples.

Students must ensure that have sufficient evidence

to cover Performance Standards AS1 and AS2
Visual Study: Implementation (PA1, PA3)
Students must ensure that have sufficient evidence
to cover Performance Standards PA1 and PA3

Visual Study: Understanding (AS1, AS2)

Students with limited note taking experience will
also be given appropriate support.
Visual Study: Implementation (PA1, PA3)
Students with limited experience with Photoshop
will be given effective instruction both through one
on one help with the teacher and Simon.

Visual Study

Submission of Visual
Study

11

Visual Study: Conclusion (AS3)

Visual Study: Conclusion (AS3)

Students will write Conclusion, ensuring that have

sufficient evidence to cover Performance Standards
AS3

Students with limited note taking experience will

also be given appropriate support.

Timeline
Topic/Key Ideas
Term 2
Folio 1: 20%

Outline

Calender

Resources
Folio 1:
Writing a Brief
Annotated Research

Students with limited experience in compiling and

writing a bibliography will also be given
appropriate support.

Intended Student Learning

Teaching
Strategies/Differentiation

Folio 1: Brief and Research (KU1-3, AS1-2)

Students will gain a better understanding of

the Folio and how this course will run over
Term 2/3.

Folio 1: Brief and Research (KU1-3, AS1-2)

Using the template students used during the

Visual Study, students will complete their

Due Thursday
9/4/2015:
Completed Visual
Study

Visual Study: Bibliography (IE1)

Visual Study: Bibliography (IE1)
Students will write Bibliography, ensuring that
have sufficient evidence to cover Performance
Standards IE1

Weebly
SACE exemplars
Previous Student
Visual Studies

Students with limited experience with effective

research methodology will be given effective
instruction through one on one help with the
teacher.
Students with limited note taking experience
using Visual Arts language will also be given
appropriate support.

Resources
Weebly
Previous Student Folios
SACE exemplars

Assessment

Folio 1:
Annotated Research

own Design Brief

Students will undertake annotated research
into competitors design strategies.

Folio 1: Research (KU1-3, AS1-2)

Folio 1: Research (KU1-3, AS1-2)

Students with limited experience with effective

research methodology will be given effective
instruction through one on one help with the
teacher.

Students will undertake annotated research

into competitors design strategies.

Weebly
Previous Student Folios
SACE exemplars

1 Design Brief
2 pages of annotated
research into relevant
competitors design
strategy

Students with limited note taking experience

using Visual Arts language will also be given
appropriate support.

Folio 1:
Annotated Research

Folio 1: Research (KU1-3, AS1-2)

Folio 1: Research (KU1-3, AS1-2)

Students with limited experience with effective

research methodology will be given effective
instruction through one on one help with the
teacher.

Students will undertake annotated research

into like designs/market/target audiences.

Weebly
Previous Student Folios
SACE exemplars

Folio 1: Idea Generation (PA1-3)

Folio 1: Idea Generation (PA1, PA3)

Students with limited experience with either hand

drawn or Photoshop sketching will be given
effective instruction through one on one help
with the teacher.

Folio 1:
Idea Generation

Folio 1:
Idea Generation

Students will undertake idea generation

using mind maps and a minimum of 10 (in
total) annotated thumbnail sketches.

Folio 1: Idea Generation (PA1-3)

Folio 1: Idea Generation (PA1, PA3)

Students with limited experience with either hand

drawn or Photoshop sketching will be given
effective instruction through one on one help
with the teacher.

Students will undertake idea generation

using a minimum of 10 (in total) annotated
thumbnail sketches.

Folio 1: Idea Generation (PA1-3)

Folio 1: Idea Generation (PA1, PA3)

Due Monday
11/5/2015:
3 pages of annotated
research into relevant
competitors design
strategy

Students with limited note taking experience

using Visual Arts language will also be given
appropriate support.
Folio 1:
Idea Generation

Due Monday
4/5/2015:

Weebly
Previous Student Folios
SACE exemplars

Due Monday
18/5/2015:
3 pages of annotated
research into like
designs/market/target
audience

Weebly
Previous Student Folios
SACE exemplars

Due Monday
25/5/2015:
3 pages of folio,
begin initial mind
mapping and
thumbnail sketching

Weebly
Previous Student Folios

Due Monday
1/6/2015:

Folio 1:
Idea Refinement

Folio 1:
Idea Refinement

Folio 1:
Idea Resolution
Practical 1:
Practitioners Statement

Students with limited experience with either hand

drawn or Photoshop sketching will be given
effective instruction through one on one help
with the teacher.

SACE exemplars

Folio 1: Idea Refinement (PA1-3)

Folio 1: Idea Refinement (PA1, PA3)

Students with limited experience with either hand

drawn or Photoshop refinement will be given
effective instruction through one on one help
with the teacher.

Weebly
Previous Student Folios
SACE exemplars

Students will undertake idea generation

using a minimum of 10 (in total) annotated
thumbnail sketches.

Students will undertake a minimum of 3 (in

total) annotated adaptations and variations of
chosen designs.

Folio 1: Idea Refinement (PA1-3)

Folio 1: Idea Refinement (PA1, PA3)

Students with limited experience with either hand

drawn or Photoshop refinement will be given
effective instruction through one on one help
with the teacher.

Students will undertake a minimum of 3 (in

total) annotated adaptations and variations of
chosen designs.

Folio 1: Idea Resolution (PA1-3)

Folio 1: Idea Resolution (PA1, PA3)

Students with limited experience with either hand

drawn or Photoshop to present a final, resolved
design will be given effective instruction through
one on one help with the teacher.

Students will choose an annotated final

design and begin exploring ideas for
delivering this design.

Practical 1: Practitioners Statement (AS2-4)

Practical 1: Practitioners Statement (AS2-4)

Students with limited experience in writing a

Practitioners Statement will be given effective
instruction through on one on one help with the
teacher.

Students will write a Practitioners Statement

that reflects their influences and evaluates
their process and outcome of Folio 1.

3 pages of folio,
continue thumbnail
sketching

Due Monday
8/6/2015:
3 pages of folio,
continue thumbnail
sketching

Weebly
Previous Student Folios
SACE exemplars

Due Monday
15/6/2015:
3 pages of folio, start
colour refinements

Weebly
Previous Student Folios
Practitioners Statement
Template
SACE exemplars

Due Monday
22/6/2015:
3 pages of folio, start
colour refinements