Art and Design (Photography)

Course summary

A-Level Photography at The Hinckley Sixth Form provides you with exciting and stimulating opportunities to explore your interests within Art and Design whilst also providing the potential to question, investigate and understand the world around you. As a Post-16 student it is important to express your views, ideas and opinions, whilst also understanding those of the people around you. Entering the qualification with confident technical recording and editing skills and an inquiring mind, your tutors will support you in researching a chosen starting point, using critical understanding to analyse a broad range of contextual sources. Results will inform and justify the application of the visual language of art and design, which will include exploration of alternative materials techniques and processes. Throughout Term 1 you will be introduced to a broad range of materials, processes and techniques that will include Fine Art, Photography and some Textiles, encouraging you to master the application of these skills in the context of your chosen endorsement. The later half of Year 12 and Year 13 will see you start to apply this investigative and exploratory nature to specialising in your chosen endorsement. Materials and Techniques include (but are not limited to): Image transfer, cyanotype, frozen photography, gelli printing, pyrography, layering, sketchography, destruction and decay of imagery, screen printing, free machine embroidery, printmaking etc.