Course Title: Realise a body of creative work
Part B: Course Detail
Teaching Period: Term1 2016
Course Code: VART6220C
Course Title: Realise a body of creative work
School: 340T Art
Campus: City Campus
Program: C5308 - Diploma of Visual Arts
Course Contact: Jennifer Cabraja
Course Contact Phone: 99254472
Course Contact Email: tafeart@rmit.edu.au
Name and Contact Details of All Other Relevant Staff
Phillip Allan
phillip.allan@rmit.edu.au
Nominal Hours: 80
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Pre-requisites and Co-requisites
None
Course Description
In this course you will gain the skills and knowledge required to realise a coherent body of creative work. Practitioners integrate conceptual, technical and organisational skills to create work in their chosen creative form.
National Codes, Titles, Elements and Performance Criteria
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CUVPRP501A Realise a body of creative work |
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1. Develop ideas for a coherent body of work |
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2. Plan and organise the production of work |
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3. Develop own approach to documenting the body of work |
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4. Collaborate with others |
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5. Create finished work |
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6. Evaluate own artwork |
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Learning Outcomes
On successful completion of this course, you will have acquired the skills and knowledge to produce digital images that represent and communicate ideas linked to your elective practices.
Details of Learning Activities
Your learning activities will take place in a studio and lecture theatre. You will complete exercises and industry style projects. You will also be required to undertake independent study.
RMIT will provide you with resources and tools for learning in this course through our online systems. Learning resources include access to studios and computer laboratories and relevant software. You will also be expected to make use of the library resources.
In this course, you learn through:
1. In-class activities:
teacher directed group activities/projects
class exercises to review discussions/lectures
class presentations
group discussion
class exercises to review discussions/lectures
studio work.
2. Out-of-class activities include:
practical exercises
reading articles and excerpts
project work
independent research.
You are expected to manage your learning and undertake an appropriate amount of out-of-class independent study and research and industry guests speak about professional practice.
Teaching Schedule
Week | Class content | Task | Elements |
1 | Overview of the Course i. Working in the Mac computer lab. ii. Computer Lab. Exercise: saving a file’ |
i. Identify computer room set-up and student responsibilities ii. Opening Photoshop and saving a file |
1.1 – 1.6 |
2 | i. Introduction to Photoshop ii. Workshop 1: Produce two computer drawings |
i. Opening Photoshop ii. Using layers and selecting layers, colours, and brush sizes |
1.1 – 1.6 2.1 – 2.6 |
3 | Workshop 2: Creating a stencil and pattern | i. Adjust a colour photographic image into a poster size tone dropout, black and white stencil ii. Create a pattern of the image |
As above |
4 | Workshop 3: Pen tool & layer masks | Using layer masks and the ‘Pen’ tool to blend images, cut out precise shapes, and construct an illusion | As above |
5 | i. Workshop 3: Pen tool & layer masks ii. Workshop 4: Imbedding textures |
i. As above ii. Using Image/Adjust to produce a tone dropout portrait ii. Use Layer style to imbed textures into objects |
As above |
6 | Workshop 5: Using the clone tool to clean an image | Use the ‘clone’ and ‘healing tool’ clear an image of unwanted marks | As above |
7 | Thursday planning day / Good Friday | ||
8 | Workshop 6: Inserting your artwork into two public spaces. Save a full size and an email/internet size copy
Submit Workshops 1 -5 for Tutorial Week |
i. Insert an image of your artwork into two public spaces and create a convincing illusion ii. Save a full size and an email/internet size copy |
As above |
9 | As above Submit Workshops 1 -5 for Tutorial Week |
As above | As above |
10 | Workshop 7: Inserting two figures into an indoor space | Insert two figures into an indoor space and create a convincing illusion | As above |
11 | As above | As above | As above |
12 | Workshop 8: Three dimensional images | Explore three dimensional imagery in Photoshop | As above |
13 | i. Workshop 8 ii. Introduce Project 1 |
As above | As above |
14 | Project 1: Construct a Photoshop ‘illusion’ combining two or more photographic images. | Investigate the potential of Photoshop to convey a visual illusion | 1.1 – 1.6 2.1 – 2.6 3.1 – 3.4 4.1 – 4.3 5.1 – 5.3 |
15 | As above | As above | As above |
16 | i. Project 1 ii. Completion and submission of all Workshops. For the year long course a ’satisfactory’ / ’not satisfactory’ result is given for the Semester 1 assessment in June |
Completion and submission of all Workshops | As above |
Learning Resources
Prescribed Texts
References
Other Resources
Faulker, Andrew & Gyncild, Brie, ‘Adobe Photoshop CC Classroom in a Book (2015 release), Adobe Press. Berkeley, 2015
You will be encouraged to attend exhibition openings and visit galleries outside of your learning environment. RMIT school of Art has two galleries and an ongoing exhibition program.
Please purchase a USB memory stick (8-16Gb) or external hard drive
Overview of Assessment
Assessment for this course is on going throughout the semester. Your knowledge and understanding of course content is assessed through completion of a body of work that demonstrates concept development, understanding of materials and adhering to the guidelines of working in a studio.
Assessment will incorporate a range of methods to assess performance and the application of knowledge and skills and will include:
- Practical tasks and a major project
- Completion of workshops in a digital format.
An assessment charter summarises your responsibilities as an RMIT student as well as those of your teachers.
Assessment Tasks
Assessment:
There is no final assessment at the end of Semester 1.
Semester 1 : Submit all completed Workshops 1 - 8
Ongoing assessment is conducted with the periodic publishing of competent or not competent tasks for all Workshops and Projects.
Satisfactory or Not Satisfactory result given at the end of Semester 1
Note: A ‘progress’ result is not a final mark for the year long ‘Realise a body of creative work’.
A graded mark is given at the end of Semester 2
Assessment Matrix
The assessment matrix demonstrates alignment of assessment tasks with the relevant Unit of Competency. These are available through the course contact in Program Administration.
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