About the course
The primary aim of the Edexcel BTEC Level 3 Foundation Diploma in Art and Design (QCF) is to educate students to make informed decisions which will facilitate their progression (primarily, but not exclusively) to appropriate higher education in art and design. Skills already acquired are linked with ideas and challenges, which extend students’ critical independence and enable them to demonstrate a full understanding of the application of art and design, relevant to progression opportunities and career choice.
Aims
- develop faculties and skills which lead to self-reliant learning
- develop critical awareness
- develop intellectual curiosity through critical understanding
- develop creative production
- connect to the workplace
- continuous diagnostic and progressive exploration of skills and concepts
- develop understanding and awareness of opportunities
Reflective Journal Ideas:
Is your reflective diary looking a bit sad. Need some ideas on how to get it Kickstarted. Have a look at some inspiring work by other students.
Reflective Journals in the movies
Directors often use hand made journals as short hand in movies. The hand made journals give an insight into the personality of a character revealing a sense of creativity dedication to recording a personal response. Here are a few examples
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Prospero's Books directed by Peter Greenaway
Peter Greenaway’s “Prospero’s Books” is not a movie in the sense that we usually employ the word. It’s an experiment in form and content. It is likely to bore most audiences, but will enchant others -- especially those able to free themselves from the notion that movies must tell stories. This film should be approached like a record album or an art book. Each “page” is there to be studied in its complexity and richness,
In the title sequence Prospero (John Gielgud) walks through his library Greenaway comments on the 100 historical, mythological, biblical & fictional characters occupying the library. |
Seven directed by David Fincher
Directed in 1995, David Fincher’s Se7en is a film that defies easy categorization. Perhaps too dark to qualify as a golden classic despite having all the right ingredients, neither is it a cult film in the traditional sense, as it is stocked with A-list talent and propped up by a smart script, a memorable score and rich cinematography, and a production value in lockstep with Fincher’s vision for the film.
The title sequence, directed by Kyle Cooper, delivers us into an even darker world, which — unlike the random city violence beneath Somerset’s window — is obsessive, methodic, and purposeful. It’s a short story told in fragments and vignettes, following the hands of an unknown man — presumably the antagonist, John Doe — as he makes entries in his diary alongside clippings from books, self-developed photographs, and found images and objects, giving the audience an intimate look into the mind of a serial killer obsessed with religion and, more to the point, attrition. |
Reflective Journal Questions
Here are some questions to get you started with your Reflective Journal
University /UCAS
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University of Ulster
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How The Foundation
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Assignments
During the year you will have three projects to be handed in and assessed click her to see more details
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SKILLS WORKSHOPS
For the first six weeks of the course you will build your skills in different areas of Art & Design. These areas will be taught by your specialist tutors.
Skills workshops tutors
Textiles and Mixed Media
Kerry Ann Ross Photography
Stephen Wilson Printmaking
Vicky Stone |
Ceramics
Roberta Campbell Painting
Charles Walsh Graphic Design
Andrew Corbett |