ART-MAKING PRACTICE = 40%
The process portfolio task authentically assesses the ways that students develop and work towards producing a body of work. It reflects the holistic nature of the course, addressing each of the assessment objectives. It places due emphasis on the process of selecting work to evidence students’ technical accomplishment during the visual arts course and their understanding of the use of materials, ideas and practices appropriate to visual communication. It also highlights the product and promotes an engagement with a broad range of media.
Core syllabus areas related to the task
The following core syllabus areas are addressed in the process portfolio assessment task.
Visual arts in context
Visual arts methods
Communicating visual arts
REQUIREMENTS:
Higher Level
- 13-25 "Screens" of materials which evidence experimentation, exploration, manipulation, and refinement of works created in at least three different art-making forms
Standard Level
- 9-18 "Screens" of materials which evidence experimentation, exploration, manipulation, and refinement of works created in at least two different art-making forms
CRITERIA:
A. Skills, techniques, and processes
B. Critical Investigation
C. Communication of ideas and intentions
D. Reviewing, refining, and reflecting
E. Presentation and subject specific language
EXTERNAL ASSESSMENT MARKS
MARKING CRITERIA & POSSIBLE STRUCTURE
What is the Process Portfolio? - Powerpoint Presentation
Examples:
Process Portfolio_Student A_SL
Process Portfolio_Student B_HL
A guide for students
The Process Portfolio is made up of individual layouts known as "Screens" that allow you to visually organize and creatively present evidence for meeting the criteria.
Each layout is oriented horizontally to match the computer screen for viewing during assessment. It can include full scans of pages from the Visual Arts Journal so horizontal orientation is also recommended.
The Process Portfolio can also consist of added images such as photographs of works in progress or media explorations, along with written or typed text, and videos. It must contain UNRESOLVED WORKS ONLY, with no images of the final piece.
The final "Screen" of the Process Portfolio must be a detailed bibliography.
To complete the task, you are required to present documentation of your experimentation, exploration, manipulation and refinement of a variety of visual arts activities during the development of your body of work over the two-year course. The documentation may include carefully chosen samples, which may be extracted from your visual arts journal and other sketchbooks, notebooks and portfolios, as well as preliminary and developmental artworks that have not been included in the exhibition task. The work is submitted as a series of screen-based slides.
Work that appears in the Process Portfolio may not be used for the Exhibition Presentation and vice versa.
This basicly means that students can and should include developmental stages of work and various related experiments, including "failures" but the finished piece selected for the exhibitionshould not be included in the PP. It's merely a question of not repeating photographic documentation so that students cannot present the same work for both components.
Additional Advice
Core syllabus areas related to the task
The following core syllabus areas are addressed in the process portfolio assessment task.
Visual arts in context
- Investigating how processes in art have changed and how media or techniques have developed or technologically evolved over time
- Familiarization with various art genres, styles, regional schools and associations
- Workshops in and experience with a range of media, techniques and equipment available to students within the art department and elsewhere within the school
- Identification of expertise available to students, within the school and locally (such as local practicing artists, the areas of special interest of art department staff and other relevant staff expertise in information and communication technology (ICT), design technology and so on)
Visual arts methods
- Art-making experiences to facilitate individual experiences in media and techniques (including two-dimensional, three-dimensional and lens-based, electronic and screen-based forms) with particular reference to the historical development of processes and techniques, and different cultural and traditional uses of these
- Investigating the art-making practices of other artists and allowing their techniques and practices to inform student art-making
- Considering and recording the potential of these experiences in the visual arts journal, reflecting on intentions and ideas
- Visual recordings of practical processes
- Exploring digital means of capturing art-making practice as it occurs and creating a record of experimentation and exploration with acquired skills
Communicating visual arts
- Reflecting upon their developing work with particular focus on how the intended meaning and purpose are communicated
- Identifying opportunities for further development in the work being undertaken
- Critiquing their successes and failures in relation to their intentions and consider how their developing work might impact on an audience if presented for public display
REQUIREMENTS:
Higher Level
- 13-25 "Screens" of materials which evidence experimentation, exploration, manipulation, and refinement of works created in at least three different art-making forms
Standard Level
- 9-18 "Screens" of materials which evidence experimentation, exploration, manipulation, and refinement of works created in at least two different art-making forms
CRITERIA:
A. Skills, techniques, and processes
B. Critical Investigation
C. Communication of ideas and intentions
D. Reviewing, refining, and reflecting
E. Presentation and subject specific language
EXTERNAL ASSESSMENT MARKS
MARKING CRITERIA & POSSIBLE STRUCTURE
What is the Process Portfolio? - Powerpoint Presentation
Examples:
Process Portfolio_Student A_SL
Process Portfolio_Student B_HL
A guide for students
The Process Portfolio is made up of individual layouts known as "Screens" that allow you to visually organize and creatively present evidence for meeting the criteria.
Each layout is oriented horizontally to match the computer screen for viewing during assessment. It can include full scans of pages from the Visual Arts Journal so horizontal orientation is also recommended.
The Process Portfolio can also consist of added images such as photographs of works in progress or media explorations, along with written or typed text, and videos. It must contain UNRESOLVED WORKS ONLY, with no images of the final piece.
The final "Screen" of the Process Portfolio must be a detailed bibliography.
To complete the task, you are required to present documentation of your experimentation, exploration, manipulation and refinement of a variety of visual arts activities during the development of your body of work over the two-year course. The documentation may include carefully chosen samples, which may be extracted from your visual arts journal and other sketchbooks, notebooks and portfolios, as well as preliminary and developmental artworks that have not been included in the exhibition task. The work is submitted as a series of screen-based slides.
Work that appears in the Process Portfolio may not be used for the Exhibition Presentation and vice versa.
This basicly means that students can and should include developmental stages of work and various related experiments, including "failures" but the finished piece selected for the exhibitionshould not be included in the PP. It's merely a question of not repeating photographic documentation so that students cannot present the same work for both components.
Additional Advice
- Although there is no limit to the number of items you can include on each screen, overcrowded or illegible materials may result in examiners being unable to interpret and understand your intentions.
- If scanning pages from your visual arts journal, other notebooks or sketchbooks, set the scanner to scan at a resolution of 72 pixels per inch in red, green, blue (RGB) colour mode. This matches the screens of most computers used by examiners to view works and will keep your submission to a manageable size.
- If using digital photographs or other digital images in your process portfolio, use image editing software to save the images in RGB colour mode at 72 pixels per inch (use the “save for web and devices” found on most digital image editing software) with a minimum width of 1,000 pixels to a maximum width of 1,500 pixels.
- Consider adopting a horizontal format for your screens, as this will best fit the screens used to examine the work and will minimize the need for scrolling to view each screen.
- If you compile your screens for the process portfolio using a slide presentation software such as Microsoft’s PowerPoint®, Apple’s Keynote® or Prezi Pro™, avoid using animations within slides and animated transitions between slides that may be missed or lost when the file is converted.
- Check your grammar and spelling, paying particular attention to the spelling of artists’ names and subject-specific terminology.