AS CourseworkUNIT 1

60% AS GRADE30% A2 GRADE

THE RULES:1.Use all the sheets I give you to inform your

work.2.Stick to the deadlines !!3.Do your best every time !4.Be productive in class !5.Be here on time !6.Always bring in your sketchbooks!7.Help each other out !

YOUR PHOTOS:

• Use skill not just ideas• Composition • Lighting• Subject• Manipulation• Make notes on what you are doing when you do it• Use a good camera !• Save your images• Back them up• Print them big and on good quality paper• Annotate all your enlargements make comments on your contact sheets

TAKING PHOTOS:•Lighting •Composition•Subject•Style•MEANING !

A/Bvisual language skills evident throughassured manipulation of the formalelements; consistent command ofskills/technique• research into and recording fromsources is purposeful, relevant andconsistent

THE THEMES:

PORTRAITLANDSCAPEDOCUMENTARY

Choose wisely and play to your strengths as well as what you have access to !

HELP EACH OTHER OUT !!

THE THEMES:

PORTRAITLANDSCAPEDOCUMENTARY

Choose a sub theme ... What are YOU going to investigate, what is the complex issue

you will be exploring though your project ???

E/Fobvious and literal ideas with little senseof direction• very little research into contextualreferences with weak understanding andsimplistic language

D/Cappreciation of sequential developmentbut short cuts sometimes taken; originalideas may be consolidated too early; atendency to reiterate ideas• contextual research and analysis goesbeyond the purely technical to begin toconsider more complex issues; criticalvocabulary lacks breadth/depth

B/Awide range of ideas explored with excitingand imaginative developments producingpurposeful ideas independently withperseverance and enthusiasm• researches a diverse range of other’s workto convey ideas and meaning; criticalvocabulary used to express emergingindependent judgements showingaccuracy and an understanding of themore complex issues involved

EXPERIMENTATION ! •Use other materials and techniques•Take Risks•Show skill and innovation•Be exciting

A/BExplores media and processes in adiverse range of experiments;understands the limitations andpotential of materials throughextending and refining studies• risks sometimes taken and usedappropriately; uses a range ofcommunication techniques.

GRADE BOUNDARIES:

76/80 – A

66/80 – B

56/80 – C

46/80 – D

36/80 – E

A2 CRITERIA IS MARKED 1.5 GRADES LOWER THAN ASMAKE THIS YEAR COUNT !!

A IN AS IS A C IN A2 !