KS5 - Art & Design: Graphics
A Level (AQA)
This is very much a practical course with the first part of the course spent developing and experimenting with a range of media, techniques and skills that are key to the A level specification.
You will work in a variety of medias via sophisticated techniques such as brusho, lino printing, air brushing, mono printing, marker rendering, marbling and many, many more. Work will be based on a choice of themes, 2 will be your personal choice and 2 will be exam briefs set by the exam board. Briefs range from water, textures, seasons, space, cities, aquatics right through to the physical form. Work will be underpinned with the use of sketchbooks to record thoughts and processes.
- You will develop an understanding of content related to graphic design:
- Understanding of a variety of materials and genres
- Understanding of meaning, function, style, scale, colour and content
- Awareness of intended audience or purpose. Ability to respond to an issue, concept/idea. Appreciation of the relationship of form and function and, where applicable, the constraints of working to a brief
- Appreciation of the appropriate use of typography
- How ideas, feelings and meanings can be conveyed and interpreted in images and artefacts created in graphic communication
- How images and artefacts relate to social, environmental, cultural and/or ethical contexts, and to the time and place in which they were created.
Coursework is an important element of the course with 60% of the final grade coming from coursework components completed during the two years of study.
In year 13 there is a controlled test of 15 hours which is held in the classroom. This task is set by the examination board in February and accounts for the remaining 40% of the A level award.
a level graphics detailed course breakdown.pdf