1. GCSE Photography Creative, Performance and Media Arts
Curriculum Map
GCSE Photography
Creative, Performance and Media Arts

2. Statement of intent
Key Stage: KS4
Subject: Art
Academic Year:

3. Curriculum Overview Key Stage: KS4 Subject: Photography
Academic Year
Year
Unit content
Autumn 1
Autumn 2
Spring 1
Spring2
Summer 1
Summer 2
GCSE
Component 1: Choice of colour
Students will undertake an exam question from last year’s exam, which has been chosen for the successful outcomes produced from this question
Component 2: Questions to be released by AQA in Spring term of the academic year
Formal elements:
Thematic elements
Lighting
Texture
repetition
Compositional elements
Rule of thirds
Framing
Leading lines
Symmetry
60% of assessment of final grade
Students will complete an e-folio containing
Contact sheets
Digital image manipulation
Physical image manipulation
Leading to final pieces printed in A5 and A4 formats
40% of assessment of final grade
Formatively assessed in preparation for Autumn term. Topics covered will support students in annotating and evaluating their work later on in the course.