6. Welcome to GCSE Graphic Communication, otherwise known as
ART GRAPHICS.
You have chosen a really exciting course, which will embrace
your creativity and ideas.
With hard work and commitment, at the end of the next two
years, you will have created a professional portfolio of work,
showing all the skills, techniques and outcomes that you will be
working on.
At school, you will be expected to work hard in lesson, and home
learning will be set each which will consolidate your learning.
With this commitment, you will get as much out of the course as
you put in, and will achieve a successful and worthy GCSE
Graphics course.
We look forward to meeting you all in September, if not before.
Miss Findlay and Miss Emin
7. AO1 Develop : studying work by othe
artists or designers
AO2 Refine: doing experiments to find
out what works best for your ideas
AO3 Recording: making sketchbook
drawings, notes, photographs and
presentations
AO4 Present: offering a final outcome
How will my work be marked?
8. For the next 7 weeks of the Summer term,
please use what you can from home.
In September, you will be given a brand
new Art Graphics Pack, which is your to
keep, full of all the equipment that you will
need for your Art Graphics course.
9. During the next few weeks,
from May until July, you will be
completing a number of Tasks,
which are based on the theme
of Typography.
As we are still expected to be
working in the home
environment, all work set will
be achievable to do at home,
and tasks will be set on
Google Classroom and via our
Beaumont Art Department Blog
– Google it! (you will see this
PowerPoint, so there are lots of
ways in which to access your
work).
It is important that you complete the tasks set
on the next few weeks, as we will be using this
work to go towards your GCSE Graphics, and
it will be assessed to be included with in your
portfolio’s.
We will be marking work set and giving you
feedback and using the school
‘positive/negative’ reward system
10. We are going to start with a great Summer project
looking at ‘Typography’. Typography is all about
how we use LETTERING in design, and is important
for us as Graphic Designers as we often use it to
COMMUNICATE a message.
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13. Take a ‘Alphabet Photoshoot’. This is a chance to
be really creative, and use your ideas!
This could be something that you complete around
the house, or out and about in your local area.
You will need to take a photo for each letter of the
alphabet, as you will be presenting them on a
board, in September in school.
Printing your Photographs:
If you are able to print your Photo’s out on photo
paper at home, then this would be great and you
can just bring them along to the first lesson back at
school.
Alternatively, many students opt to send them
away to be printed - there are lots of well known
websites to use, or when the shops begin to open,
may students have often used Boots or Tesco.
You can choose to do your photographs in
COLOUR or in BLACK AND WHITE.
Bring your photographs along to the first lesson
back in September.
There are lots of examples on the following slides…
