Week 1 : Session 1 - Movie/Band Poster Introduction - Fine Art Elements and Principles in a Poster

Lesson Objectives:
Identify Fine Art Elements and Principles used within the composition.
Describe and Analyze how the Fine Art Elements and Principles have been used within the composition.
Scope and sequence (ACARA The Arts):
Years 9 - 10.
Students will deepen their creative and critical knowledge and engagement with media.
Students will explore and control the language codes, conventions and processes of media practice and become responsive and ethical creators and users of media who can communicate stories in conventional and imaginative
ways.
Curriculum Links (ACARA Foundation - 10 Draft):
Year 10 - Making and Responding.
10.6 Explore other art forms and learning areas to develop ideas and issues to explore symbol and representation.
10.7 Evaluate and share with others their understandings about the role intentions play in how and why visual arts works are made, what they are about and how they are understood in different ways.
Equipment:
Computer or VGA cable to connect to projector.
Projector screen.
15 copies movie/band posters OR URL to the images of the movie/band poster if students are within a school with a laptop program.
Project package.
1. Set up one movie poster and one band poster side by side on projector (or alternatively two huge posters blu-tacked on board) before students are let in (might entice their curiosity).
2. Get a student (or two) to distribute sheet on Fine Art Elements and Principles, Project package. This should only take three minutes max. While this is being done, do the roll call, casual banter with students to build rapport.
3. Explain that during the term, this media class will be exploring and experimenting digital media processes to create a small body of work that will inform their practice and a band or movie poster with an extended paragraph about
their project, theory, processes and evaluation of their progress.
4. Ask students to read for three minutes the sheet on the Fine Art Elements and Principles.
5. Ask students to Identify on their own, three of the Fine Art Elements and and three Principles in the poster on the left, ignore the poster on the right, well come back to that shortly. This should take ve minutes max. Remind
students of time limit so they push on and the lesson keeps an up tempo.
6. Lets share what weve found for ten minutes. How many have we Identied? Are there others that we have missed? Write on board some that we have found...
7. Describe and Analyze how the Fine Art Elements and Principles have been used with the poster on the left individually for ten minutes. This will then be discussed as a class.
- What Fine Art Elements and/or Principles have been used within the composition?
- How has it been used within the composition? What does it moods and/or ideas do they evoke?
- Explain and justify to what effect it has been imparted with the use of these particular Fine Art Elements and Principles?
- What then, can we argue about the function of these Art Elements and Principles?
7. With the same questions, repeat the process with the poster to the right. Give students ten minutes to complete this task. Remind them to refer back to their handy Fine Arts Elements and Principles sheet.
8. Re-cap with the nal poster. What are the Elements? What are the Principles? How have they been used? What moods and/or ideas do they evoke? Explain and justify.