Visual Communication
Enrichment: Elective Unit
Students may elect to study these elective units for one or two semesters.
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Note: It is recommended that students undertaking this unit will have previously studied Visual Communication - Year 8.
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Unit description
Students experiment and extend skills and techniques to generate and refine ideas for two- and three-dimensional solutions to design briefs. To gain ideas, students explore Visual Communications from a wide variety of sources.
Communication is a key consideration, with particular attention to layout and a range of presentations. Students undertaking this unit will:
- create and present visual communications using a preferred form, technique and/or method
- use freehand and instrumental drawings and explore the use of mixed media in their two- and three-dimensional drawings
- apply skills and techniques, design elements and principles with competence to determine imaginative and individual solutions to tasks
- develop individual approaches to specific techniques and processes and choose the most appropriate technique for their intended solution;
In this unit students will explore the following essential questions:
- What is the importance of Visual Communication and Design in our lives?
- How do we use design elements and principles to communicate and manipulate visual information?
- Why is it important to understand and represent information visually?
Semester 1
- Paraline drawing: isometric and planometric technical drawing, use of design elements
- Technical drawing exercises: paraline drawing systems and how to change three-dimensional drawings to two-dimensional drawings using orthogonal drawing systems
- Information design: a range of creative design assignments may be included such as architectural drawings, furniture design and illustrations.
Semester 2
- Paraline drawing: further development of isometric and planometric technical drawing, use of design elements to render
- Architectural design: students have the opportunity to explore and design visual communications that inform or depict. These may include illustrations, architectural drawing and planometric drawing
- Technical drawing exercises: paraline drawing systems and how to change three-dimensional drawings to two-dimensional drawings using orthogonal drawing systems.
Assessment
Assessment Tasks are marked individually and an overall folio mark is awarded.
