1. ICT Assessment 2 Part 1: Proposed Lesson Outlines Jillian Brown

2. Topic: Photomontage To create a photomontage using digital images from the internet to depict a chosen issue in Society. Year 10 Visual Art

4. 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.

5. 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)

6. 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

7. 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

8. 6 steps of project over 3 lessons

9. 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)

11. 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

12. 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

14. 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

15. 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

17. 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 ?

18. 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

19. 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.