ICT Assessment 2Part 1: Proposed Lesson Outlines

Jillian Brown

• Topic: Photomontage

• To create a photomontage using digital images from the internet to depict a chosen issue in Society.

Year 10 Visual Art

Arts Outcomes

• Arts in Society: Students Understand the role of arts in society

• Arts Skills and Processes: Students use the skills, techniques, processes conventions and technology of the arts

• Arts Responses: Students use their aesthetic understanding to respond to, reflect on and evaluate the arts.

Specific Objectives

• Research and discuss montage as an art form (arts in society)

• Find and save appropriate images from internet on specified issue in society. (arts skills and processes)

• Successfully create a Montage by placing and editing images in Photoshop (arts skills and processes)

• Evaluate and critique own artwork (arts responses)

Prior Knowledge of Students

• Year 10 • Basic understanding of Art Techniques and processes through

Primary and early Secondary School

• Previous Guided Exploration of Art history in class

• Adequate practice of using internet, searching and saving images.

• Varying knowledge of Photoshop

Materials and Resources• Computer

• Internet Access, Photoshop CS4

• A3 Printer

• A3 Gloss Photo paper

• Newspapers

• Step by Step written Lesson Instructions

• Research “mud map” worksheet

• Evaluation Sheet

6 steps of project over 3 lessons

1. Introduce concept of Photomontage

• Discussion

– Digital Art as Art form

– How montage is used in print media, Magazines Newspaper

– Discussion of montage in Dadaism, Pop culture (Punk)

2. Research Collage on internet

– Students to look for how artists use different Art elements and principles to show meaning, e.g.. Cropping, size, colour

– Record findings on mud map.

– Discuss Findings as a class

3. Students to choose an Issue in Society

• e.g.. Global warming, body image)

• Allow to briefly research Issue on Internet eg. The West Australian Website, Greenpeace, BBC, to gain visual ideas

• Students to brainstorm ideas on mud map

4. Gather images to create Montage

• Search internet to find appropriate images to include in montage.

• Create folder on desktop and save all images in it.

• Remind students to save as many images as they can as they can edit/ disregard later

5. Create Photomontage in Photoshop

• Follow Instructions on Printout

• Create new artwork

• Place each photo on new layer

• Crop and edit photos to create desired outcome

• Print Artwork on Photo paper

6. Reflection of Artwork

• Students to fill in reflection worksheet on their own artwork.

• Q1: In your artwork how did you use montage techniques to express your issue?

• Q2: In your opinion how do you think you could improve your artwork ?

Estimated timing 3 x 60min lessons

• Lesson 1

• Introduction, Discussion, Choose Topic, Research and gather images

• Lesson 2

• Placing images into Photoshop, Creating photomontage

• Lesson 3

• Printing off artworks, completing reflection worksheets

Assessment

• Arts in society: Assess the student’s contribution to class discussion and how their research influenced their final art work.

• Arts skills and Processes: assess composition of final artwork using digital techniques elements and principles.

• Arts Responses: how well did the student evaluate their own art work through written worksheet.