Year 8 Photography
Now that you have developed a basic understanding of manual camera handling techniques, bases of perspective and visual conventions, we move to more contextual narratives by investigating, exploring, creative making and photographing your outcomes. Feel free to revisit the year 7 developing skills page to refresh your f/stop, ISO and light information.
Your outcomes for the year will be (Australian Curriculum, 2025):
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investigate ways that visual conventions, visual arts processes and materials are manipulated to represent ideas, perspectives and/or meaning in artworks created across cultures, times, places and/or other contexts
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investigate the diversity of First Nations Australians’ artworks and arts practices, considering culturally responsive approaches to Indigenous Cultural and Intellectual Property rights
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reflect on the ways that they and other artists respond to influences to inform choices they make in their own visual arts practice
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experiment with visual conventions, visual arts processes and materials to develop skills
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generate, document and develop ideas for artworks
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select and manipulate visual conventions, visual arts processes and/or materials to create artworks that represent ideas, perspectives and/or meaning
Understanding the outcomes will help to understand why we will be focusing specifically on Perspectives of objects and space. however, visual conventions used in artworks of diverse styles and composition (Victorian Curriculum, 2025) can vary.
These may include combinations of the:
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conventions such as composition and style, the art elements of line, shape, colour, tone, texture, form, sound, light and time
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art principles of emphasis, movement, rhythm, unity, variety, space, repetition, balance, contrast and scale.
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Using visual conventions we will be able to create our own perspectives using either your iPhone, Android or your camera.
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To view the year 8 perspective task, click on the camera below.
