L1ARTD

Level 1 Digital Art

Course Description

Head of Faculty/Teacher in Charge: Mr B. Morrison.

This course is about discovering and making Digital Art using drawing tablets, computers, and cameras.

Students will explore creating artworks in Photography, Design and Illustration. They will develop a wide range of skills using Adobe programmes such as, Photoshop and Illustrator, along with advancing their technical DSLR camera skills.

We encourage students to develop and extend their ideas and use artist role models for inspiration. 


Course Overview

What is taught in courses varies from year to year. This course could include:
Drawing is used to explore and develop ideas. Students will use a range of design and illustration techniques using Photoshop and Illustrator.

Photography techniques are taught using DSLR cameras and Adobe programmes are used to edit work.

Students will be able to extend their work to create Artbooks, installations, animations, conceptual artworks, or digital moving images.

Recommended Prior Learning

This is an open entry course, there are no prerequisites.

Pathway

Assessment Information

There are four assessments available: Two internal assessments and two external assessments. They are worth 5 credits each.

Credit Information

You will be assessed in this course through all or a selection of the standards listed below.

This course is eligible for subject endorsement.

Total Credits Available: 20
Internal Assessed Credits: 10
External Assessed Credits: 10
Assessment
Description
Level
Internal or
External
Credits
L1 Literacy Credits
UE Literacy Credits
Numeracy Credits
A.S. 91912 v4
NZQA Info

Visual Arts 1.1 - Use practice-based visual inquiry to explore an Aotearoa New Zealand Māori context and another cultural context


Level: 1
Internal or External: Internal
Credits: 5
Level 1 Literacy Credits: 0
University Entrance Literacy Credits: 0
Numeracy Credits: 0
A.S. 91913 v3
NZQA Info

Visual Arts 1.2 - Produce resolved artwork appropriate to established art making conventions


Level: 1
Internal or External: Internal
Credits: 5
Level 1 Literacy Credits: 0
University Entrance Literacy Credits: 0
Numeracy Credits: 0
A.S. 91914 v4
NZQA Info

Visual Arts 1.3 - Explore Visual Arts processes and conventions to inform own art making


Level: 1
Internal or External: External
Credits: 5
Level 1 Literacy Credits: 0
University Entrance Literacy Credits: 0
Numeracy Credits: 0
A.S. 91915 v3
NZQA Info

Visual Arts 1.4 - Create a sustained body of related artworks in response to an art making proposition


Level: 1
Internal or External: External
Credits: 5
Level 1 Literacy Credits: 0
University Entrance Literacy Credits: 0
Numeracy Credits: 0
Credit Summary
Total Credits: 20
Total Level 1 Literacy Credits: 0
Total University Entrance Literacy Credits: 0
Total Numeracy Credits: 0

Disclaimer

Please note that courses will go ahead only if student numbers, staffing, and timetabling allow it.  Where a subject is oversubscribed, and there are insufficient numbers or resources to create an extra class, a ballot system may be applied.  

Costs

The Board of Trustees has again asked to opt into the Ministry of Education donation scheme. Doing so resulted in the ability to waive student fee donations. Kaiapoi High School aims to deliver quality educational courses over and above those that which is funded by the Ministry. It is likely the School will opt into the donation scheme for 2025, however parental contribution for the costs of trips and activities where participation is optional, and/or components not covered by the Government grant, may be requested. We appreciate the financial support our families make to the School.