Year 11 – Easter Holidays checklist

1. Year 11 – Easter Holidays checklist • You will have approx 5 lessons after the Easter hols before your exam. These lessons will be spent focusing on AO2 – designing, experimenting and planning out your final piece. Therefore the majority of AO1&3 should be completed by then. This is a rough guide to what you should have (this is bare minimum!): • Title Page: FORCE • Initial brainstorm page – what were your initial thoughts having been given the title? Have you made it clear which thought/s you decided to explore first and why? • 10 pages of observational studies (these might not all occur one after the other but rather should appear throughout your sketchbook)– these will include quick sketches, various medias, larger studies, sustained studies which clearly show that longer has been spent on them, photographs (please present these properly, printed out on photo paper makes them look more professional). • Have your studies got annotations with them explaining what, how and why you did it? • At least 2 examples of you refining a piece of work – ie: making it better and pushing the idea forward – doing it bigger does not count unless it has got better! • 2 – 4 artists pages and appropriate responses. Have you made it very clear what you are gaining by having looked at the artist? How is their work influencing yours? Can you begin to show that in a couple of studies of your own? • Get someone who hasn’t seen your work a lot to look through your sketchbook – What do they think? Does it make sense to them? Can they see how your ideas have come together? Do you have a few pieces that make them say ‘wow, that’s fantastic!’? • So what’s next? More photos? Original studies? Beginning to formulate and bring together your ideas? Experimentation and refinement of media choices? • Have a very happy and productive Easter!