Unit Introduction:
This unit is about developing learners’ visual recording skills as an exploratory tool in communicating different ideas. Learning to observe and select visual information from the world around them forms a vital part of this unit. Learners will use primary sources to work from direct observation, developing their skill and understanding, to communicate and express creative ideas.
Our lives today are rich in creative visual imagery. Advertising, film, video and the internet have become an integral part of our visual experience. The quality of our visual world depends to a great extent on the visual recording skills of the artist or designer, and their ability to create exciting, innovative imagery. Recording skills lie at the heart of an artist’s success in communicating their message. In the process of generating their ideas, artists, craftspeople and designers need to select, use and refine their recordings in order to communicate with their audience effectively. The visual recording skills that learners develop through this unit will form the basis for all subsequent units and, therefore, underpin the whole qualification.
In this unit, learners will build their visual language skills and understanding through using the formal elements (line, tone, colour, shape, pattern, surface, structure etc) in a wide range of visual studies activities. Learners will develop the ability to identify and select for different purposes appropriate visual qualities from direct observation. Understanding the process of exploring and recording will involve experimenting with mark-making using varied materials, techniques and processes appropriate to learners’ specialist pathways.
On completion of this unit a learner should:1 Know how to identify sources for visual recording
2 Be able to record visually
3 Understand visual recording in others’ work
4 Understand own visual recording
5 Be able to develop visual recording to produce outcomes
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