Art in WoW – VAWOW 101

Preliminary Assessment Task 2

Visual Arts: Body of Work (Part 1)

Area of relevant content:

Art making Practice
Structural / Subjective / Postmodern
Conceptual Framework: Artist-World-Audience

Assessment Task Outcomes:

Practice P1: explores the conventions of practice in artmaking.
Conceptual Framework P2: explores the roles and relationships between the concepts of artist, artwork, world and
audience.
Frames P3: identifies the frames as the basis of understanding expressive representation through the making of art.
Representation P4: investigates subject matter and forms as representations in artmaking.
Conceptual Strength and Meaning P5: investigates ways of developing coherence and layers of meaning in the
making of art.
Resolution P6: explores a range of material techniques in ways that support artistic intentions

Task

Create a 30 second Machinima of your character in standard definition and DVD aspect ratio that tells us
something about who they are and their personality. You will be required to back up your Machinima with
a storyboard outlining camera shots and scenes and a script that details character action/effects and
dialogue.

Assessment Criteria

Students will be assessed on how well they:

• Use a range of compositional and technical devices in capturing footage where
subject matter and visual conventions are explored (refers to P1, P3)
• Apply a developing awareness of the conceptual framework to the making of an
artwork in which the student is subject as well as artist and audience (implied
through the device of the students virtual avatar) (refers to P2 and P4)
• Employ appropriation with an understanding of how it may be used as a
postmodern device to interrogate an image and alter its meaning (refers to P5)
• Produce a work that creates viewer empathy (supported by a storyboard and script) that coherently
express ideas about allegory and identity (refers to P2, P6)

Marking scheme
Visual Arts Process Diary has evidence of progress and process of /25
work demonstrating students research and reference to influences
and their source for material

Students have completed a storyboard for their film that tells the /25
story in scenes and camera angles/shots. May use hand drawn or
digital images (e.g. screenshots) or a combination.

A written script that illustrates dialogue and direction of the film and /25
describes the mood and feel of the film

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Student has produced a coherent and resolved (scripted and edited) /25
30 sec film

Total /100

Linton Chapman – Visual Art Curriculum Specialisation II