anyone doing art or vis comm 2008??

[cathtacular]

just wondering if anyone on here was doing either of these subjects this year?

[cathtacular]

yeah probably, have you started your folio yet??

[Electioneering]

I am.

[cathtacular]

how are you guys going along with your folios?
what have you been looking at?
have you had a folio review yet??

[cathtacular]

i got a D+ on our folio review lol.
i have done a fair bit in my folio i have been looking at photography too but mainly the depiction of movement through a still frame and the interpretation of this through dance...
hows everyones theory going? i have been neglecting it a bit lately, the artists we are studying are Anna Platten and Mary Cassatt and Gorden Bennett and Fredrick MC Cubbin.. kind of struggling with this interpretive framework thing but doing good with the formal interpretation and visual analysis.

[jamesdrv]

I did Vis Comm in year 12 last year. If you guys need any help with your folio or theory stuff, just ask. What are you doing for your first folio, cathtacular?

[cathtacular]

i'm doing a corporate identity package including a logo, business card and letter head for a Melbourne accessory/clothing store aimed at teens and young adults and i'm also doing a series of packaging for a range of products for the same store.
what did you do for both of you folios?

[jamesdrv]

For the first one I designed a mobile phone and presented it in an advertisement, along with a new logo for the phone company (Nokia). My second folio was a lot bigger; I designed a public library, a library card, a logo for the library and a library website. I made the library card, built a scaled model of the library and the website was fully functional. I might post some pictures later tonight. Perhaps others could do the same..

[Electioneering]

sorry but what is a folio review?? does the teacher just check your folio and see how you're going? tbqh i do not like my teacher and never feel comfortable with her looking at my work (but of course this is inevitable)... which is really weird and stupid, i know.

for viscomm i am designing a museum building along with a new logo, and advert poster for it's 'grand opening'. re: two folios, is the second folio for semester two? i don't understand...

[cathtacular]

in vis com you do 1 folio a semester in semester 1 you have to create something 2d and 3d where as in semester 2 your less restricted.


a folio review is pretty much what you said you get a grade for where you are up to and you and your teacher have to sign a vcaa form to say your work is your own or something. i don't like my art teacher either and she doesn't really like me she isn't a very good teacher but i don't really feel comfortable showing many people my folio i went to a folio course the other day in port melbourne turns out heaps of people do more than 1 final piece.. which i didn't think was normal as our teacher said we only do 1... i quite like the idea of doing more than one though... what are you doing?

[Electioneering]

i have not had a folio review yet... i didnt know such a thing existed! lol.

wow my teacher told us the exact opposite. she said that 1 final is not enough. she said we should aim to produce ~3 pieces, especially if the size of our pieces is smaller like a3 or a2.

i'm doing painting on canvas. what are you doing?

[cathtacular]

im not sure what im doing, our teacher told us we should have no idea about what our final piece will be like and we dont start testing materials and techniques until term 3... but our art teacher is mad because everyone else ive spoken to has done around 3 final pieces... although im hoping to do photography but probably large scale but i just didnt tell my teacher that yet! we are probably the only school doing one final piece..

[Electioneering]

but.. you're supposed to have a theme and continually work around that theme by producing numerous possible solutions illustrating your ideas and stuff, right? at the very start my teacher made us tell her what we plan to do for our finals, like painting, photography, sculture, mixed media, drawing etc. as well as our theme.

also our teacher says we can start researching and testing materials and techniques now..

if your teacher is telling you not to do all this stuff, then what are you guys doing now?!?! it seems like you can't do much..

are studio arts and art the same thing? because i am doing studio arts... not art.

[Eriny]

Art is a bit different to studio art. I think art is more theoretical.

[bec]

art has more of an emphasis on theory (at least in the mark allocations) whereas studio art is more practical. in studio art, it's basically the same as photography where you have a statement of intention and a potential resolution in mind throughout most of your experimenting - your work is very directed.

in art though, you can start with whatever you want and you don't necessarily have to have a theme.

i do art and no one in my class (including me) has done any final pieces. don't stress about how many finals you end up with - as long as your ideas are "resolved" in some way, you can have as few or as many as you want...