Photography
GCSE Photography
Year 9 – Workshop based tasks
Autumn Term
- Formal Elements – exploring each one in detail and using them as a focus for a mini photography project
- Basic skills of using a bridge camera
Spring Term
- Intro to Photoshop
- Experimenting with mixed media
- Artist research (cultural understanding)
Summer Term
- Creative project
- Visit to Burghley House
- Structures
Year 10 – 60% coursework
Over the course of the year, students will complete 3 coursework projects which vary year by year. Below are the starting points…
- Structures (…continued)
- Personal Identity
- London/viewpoints
- Fusion
- Inside/Outside
Year 11 – Closing the gap on coursework and 40% exam
Autumn Term
- Natural Forms
Spring Term
- AQA releases the exam starting points
- Exam preparatory work which consists of a portfolio of work leading up to a final response which is completed in the 10 hour exam
Summer Term
- 10 hour exam – final response
- All work moderated internally and externally by an AQA moderator – end of May