Unit outcomes
Pupils who are secure will be able to:
- Explain how a new image can be created using a combination of other images.
- Understand what photomontage is and recognise how artists use photography.
- Select relevant images and cut them with confidence and a level of control.
- Demonstrate a competent knowledge of effective composition, discussing their ideas.
- Use recording devices and available software with confidence.
- Demonstrate a confident understanding of Edward Weston’s style through their artistic choices.
- Discuss the features of a design, e.g. explaining what is effective about a composition.
- Select a suitable range of props, considering the design brief and their initial ideas.
- Use the viewfinder to set up an effective composition, thinking about the scale and positioning of objects.
- Use editing software to change their image, reflecting an artist’s style.
- Choose a suitable painting and suggest appropriate ways to recreate it photographically with props.
- Set up a composition and think about a space that will provide good lighting levels.
- Take a portrait that is focused and appropriately framed.
- Draw an accurately measured grid, with some support, understanding how it can support them with their drawing.
- Use the grid to translate a photograph to a drawn image that is mostly correctly proportioned.
- Create a final painting or drawing with tonal differences that create a photo-realistic effect.
Suggested prior learning
Craft and design: Architecture
Get startedLessons
Lesson 1: Photomontage
Lesson 2: Macro photography
Lesson 3: Digital art
Lesson 4: Recreating paintings
Lesson 5: Photorealistic self-portraits
Key skills
Generating ideas:
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Key knowledge
Formal elements:
- Colour:
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Key vocabulary
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Cross-curricular opportunities
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