Background to the VELS – The Arts domain
Level 1
At Level 1, both the Arts VELS and the CSF II focus on students using a range of means offered by the arts disciplines to communicate ideas, feelings and experiences through creating and making arts works and talking about their own and others’ communication through arts works. Level 1 in the Arts domain of the VELS uses a single dimension – Creating and making where the CSF II uses two substrands – Arts practice and Responding to the arts. Aspects of the standard for Creating and making that refer to engagement with the processes and practices of exploring correlate with Responding to the arts but place students exploration and responses to their own and other people’s arts works as part of the creating and making process. Where the Arts domain uses a holistic structure that encompasses all arts disciplines at all levels, the CSF II Level 1 organises the arts disciplines into two categories: Performing Arts which can be implemented through Dance, Drama and/or Music and Visual Arts which can be implemented through Art and/or Media. Note that the Level 1 standard requires students to make and share performing and visual arts works.
The Level 1 standard includes generally similar requirements to those of the two CSF II Level 1 outcomes and will involve students:
- In Art, communicating ideas, feelings and experiences through making of two- and three-dimensional art works using art elements such as line (thick/thin), shape (round/square), space (big/small), texture (rough/smooth), colour and form (person/object). Students learn to manipulate a variety of media and tools as they explore a range of art forms and share ideas by presenting their work. As part of the art making process students share, look at and talk about their own and others’ art works found in familiar environments and learn about art forms that are a part of cultural events in their communities.
- In Dance, communicating ideas, feelings and experiences by exploring and using the dance elements of space, time and energy. They develop dance skills by exploring and using techniques and processes employing a range of whole body and body part actions and share dance with others in the classroom. As part of the dance making process, students talk about and share their own and others’ dance ideas and works that they have observed in the community and presented to other class members.
- In Drama, communicating ideas, feelings and experiences through improvisation using dramatic elements such as voice and movement. Students create imaginary worlds and characters to re-enact real and imagined situations using dramatic forms. Students share their drama ideas and performances with other class members and talk about their own and others’ drama and about their observations of characters and dramatic situations in the community.
- In Media, communicating ideas, feelings and experiences using media elements such as sound, colour, movement and light. Students choose and arrange sounds and images as they learn about a range of media forms. They share their media ideas and work with others and talk about their daily experience of the media and ways in which the media can be part of personal experience and cultural and social events in their community.
- In Music, communicating ideas, feelings and experiences by experimenting with the music elements such as sounds of different pitch (high/low), duration (short/long), dynamics (loud/soft) and tempo (fast/slow) and exploring ways of producing sound using their voices, body percussion, instruments and objects individually and in groups. Students use appropriate symbols to represent these elements and improvise patterns and soundscapes using appropriate techniques and processes to create their own music. They share music works through class performances. Students talk about music ideas and works they have heard in the community and performed themselves.
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Creating and making
At Level 1, students make and share performing and visual arts works that communicate observations, personal ideas, feelings and experiences. They explore and, with guidance, use a variety of arts elements (on their own or in combination), skills, techniques and processes, media, materials, equipment and technologies in a range of arts forms. They talk about aspects of their own arts works, and arts works and events in their community.
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In Arts practice – ideas, skills, techniques and processes
students:
In Responding to the arts – criticism, aesthetics and contexts
students:
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