Task Grids

Miskin Arts
Unit 2 - Materials, Techniques and Processes in Art and Design FINAL ASSESSMENT
IMPORTANT: The following are TASKS (not to be confused with grading criteria)
TASKS To gain a Pass:
TASKS To gain a Merit:
P1.

Explore materials, tools techniques and

processes based on inspiration and research
of artists. Both 2D and 3D based exploration
Make notes of health and safety and your
elimination of risk COSHH guidance online

P2.

Using the skills you have learnt and

experiment further with these processes,
combining skills you have learnt with other
media and materials

M1.
Experiment with a range materials,
techniques and processes in an
individual, creative and effective
manner. Incorporate Formal Elements
when you describe the characteristics
of the expressions your experiments
has in comparison to artists work
Create diverse experiments
M2.
Use purposeful analysis of the use of
techniques. Successfully select the
most effective media and materials
you have been exploring

P3.

Evaluate your use of materials, techniques

and processes, discussing how suitable they
are for your chosen idea and how
successfully you applied them

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TASKS To gain a Distinction:

D1.
Consistently evaluate in a
critical manner, showing
perception
Experiment use of materials in an
imaginative way, using creative
experimental techniques to
produce exciting work.
Show independence,
sophistication and innovation

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Unit 3 Ideas and Concepts in Art and Design IN PART
IMPORTANT: The following are TASKS (not to be confused with grading criteria)
TASKS To gain a Pass:
TASKS To gain a Merit:
TASKS To gain a Distinction:
P1.

Use references from Surrealism,

Dadaism and Cubism as well as
Modernism to study the use of
creative thinking, ideas and
concepts
Compare ideas and concepts where
you discuss thinking processes and
effect from symbolism, metaphors,
and visions

P2.

Investigate creative thinking

techniques and originality;
Serial thinking,
Lateral thinking,
Free thinking,
Structured thinking.
Visual thinking

M1.
Show how the results of your
investigation can inspire your own
ideas and your own concepts by
demonstrating a connection between
your findings and your own work
purposefully

D1.
Use independent analysis and case
studies, such i.e. Symbols in Art and
Design in order to generate your own
personal ideas and concepts where you
use sophisticated thinking and modification
from synthesizing to improve original ideas

M2.
Demonstrate a variety of approaches
to ideas that you consider to be good
options for your later outcomes
Create purposeful ideas for logos and
graphic image making in relations to
the chosen brief

D2.
Show a wide perspective and individual
approach, which means originality and a
well thought through process when you
design your graphic images, visuals and
logos as well as the packaging shapes you
are designing
This also means incorporating more
sophisticated ways of presenting your
work, finish and display and evaluation

P3.

Generate ideas using different

creative thinking processes and in
response to the brief

P4.

Present design outcomes and

communicate your products to
different audiences

Brief IVd by Marie McGovan

Moni Aksdal

Miskin Arts
Unit 5 Contextual Influences in Art and Design THIS UNIT IS INCLUDED IN ALL THREE PROJECTS THIS YEAR
IMPORTANT: The following are TASKS (not to be confused with grading criteria)
TASKS To gain a Pass:
TASKS To gain a Merit:
P1.
Shown that you know about key
developments and influences in Art and
Design
Produce a TIME LINE where you show the
important time periods in Western Culture
(which means from Egypt, across Europe,
UK and US). A good place to start is Ancient
Egypt and move up from there
Look at selected time periods in more
detail, where you show examples of
artwork, clothing, architecture and arts and
crafts from that period.

Brief IVd by Marie McGovan

M1.
Research and Organize information about
Arts, Craft and Design developments
effectively
Help sheet is provided and you find it in the
How To Guide link in Tumblr
Here are examples of what you could select
from;
Historical and contemporary developments:
characteristics; theories; influences; relationships;
impact; technologies (inventions, manufacturing,
photography, printing processes, cinema, digital)
Movements: 19th century e.g. Romanticism,
Realism, Impressionism, Post-Impressionism,
Symbolism, Expressionism, Arts and Crafts
Movement, Art Nouveau; 20th century e.g.
Fauvism, Cubism, Futurism, Dada, Surrealism,
Bauhaus, Art Deco, Social Realism,
Constructivism, Abstract Expressionism, Pop Art,
Modernism, Post-Modernism, Punk Art; Brit Art;
Performance Art, Installation Art, Outsider Art; 21st
century e.g. digital, video art, internet,
globalisation
Influences: fine art, graphics, fashion,
architecture, ceramics, other art forms, mass
media, popular culture, environmental issues
Wider cultural context: significant events e.g.
Industrial Revolution, Great Exhibition, design
reforms,
colonialism, communications, trade, wars, social
change, politics, migration, freedom of speech,
individualism
World cultures: Could be Japanese or Oriental art,
African tribal, Egyptian art, Celtic, Medieval, Folk,
naive art, carnivals

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TASKS To gain a Distinction:

D1.
Independent case studies where you look at a
particular challenge you want to find out more
about, so you collect information from several
sources, historical and contemporary, at the
same time and put them all together as an
analytical study with a wide range of examples
and your own input
There are opportunities to continue working on case
studies through the year during other project

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P2.
Show on your pages in your sketch books
how cultural context relate to historical
and contemporary art and design
Discuss how changes happens to art
and design because of culture, politics,
religion, access to materials, travel

M2.
Show own response and opinions
supported by examples drawn from
established sources
Add you own drawings and paintings etc. that
shows your creative skills and recording skills
and presentation skills in your sketch book

P3.
Use both primary and secondary research
This involves going to galleries and art
exhibitions and collect evidence in form of
photographs, drawings, leaflets or cards
from where you went
P3.
Show that you use information from your
contextual studies when you produce
outcomes, critical studies during
developments
P3.
Present your final outcomes
Here this means the comic strip or
childrens book artwork
Mark that this also includes the other
outcomes from each project this year

Brief IVd by Marie McGovan

Moni Aksdal

D2.
Show a deeper understanding and informed
judgments where you argue conclusions by
using specialist language in a fluent, professional
manor

Miskin Arts
Unit 34 Image Manipulation Using Computer Applications IN PART
IMPORTANT: The following are TASKS (not to be confused with grading criteria)
TASKS To gain a Pass:
TASKS To gain a Merit:
P1.
Evaluation of designers work
Collect images and look at the
techniques, tools and effects they
have used to manipulate images

M1.
Identification and evaluation of
designers work purposefully with
references to use of image
manipulation and computer
application

Prepare your source material for

digitizing. Use the mixed media work
you produced i.e. potato print etc.

M2.
Prepare and digitize considered
source materials consistently
The range and amount of sources
makes a difference for your grades

P3.

M3.
Digitize source material; scan,
Produce effective solutions
photograph, download own work and
according to the chosen brief that use
prepare the images by cropping and
suitable image manipulation hardware
sizing these for manipulation
and software

P2.

P4.

Create your own A3 art piece where

you show a range of image
manipulation from your sources
Create images to become parts for
your packaging nets, packaging,
logos and graphic image outcomes

M4.
Present your outcomes effectively
reaching coherent solutions
This should be in form of nets,
assembly, ready for print conclusions

P5.

Present your design outcomes

Brief IVd by Marie McGovan

Moni Aksdal

TASKS To gain a Distinction:

D1.
Identify independently and evaluate
examples of others work that use image
manipulation and computer application. This
can be in form of case studies and problem
solving as well as analysis and critical
studies
D2.
Prepare and digitize independently,
exciting source materials that exploit the full
potential of image manipulation techniques
This also means incorporating more use of
hardware and software
D3.
Present independently own design
outcomes where you are demonstrating an
informed opinion about the use of digitized
materials and image manipulation
techniques against the chosen brief
Evaluation can also be incorporated with
Unit 97

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Unit 37 Graphic Media Techniques and Technologies FINAL ASSESSMENT
IMPORTANT: The following are TASKS (not to digital,
be confused
with grading
criteria)scanning,
image manipulation,
multimedia,

P2.
Use graphic media techniques and technology
to meet design brief
This means that you chose good techniques to
achieve what you wish to design
P3.
Present your outcome
This is the graphics, logo and packaging design
Mark that this unit is represented in other projects so
there will be more outcomes than the above

Brief IVd by Marie McGovan

Technologies: hand tools can be brushes, rollers, craft

knives, printing press, light boxes, cameras, enlargers,
scanners, computers and software such as Photo Shop
and InDesign
M2.
Use graphic media, techniques and technology within
own diverse design work to meet the design brief
coherently
Own design work: graphic outcomes

M3.
Present and review your design outcomes using
graphic media, techniques and technology
Present: show designs as portfolio presentation, exhibition
display
Outcomes: (models), mounted prints, digital display and
on-screen images
Annotate your work

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D2.
Extensive use of graphic media
techniques must be represented
independently to meet the design
brief creatively

D3.
Present and Analyse the outcomes
imaginatively
Evaluate your work in depth and
with direct references to the brief

Miskin Arts
Unit 38 Mixed Media Image Making FINAL ASSESSMENT
IMPORTANT: The following are TASKS (not to be confused with grading criteria)
TASKS To gain a Pass:

TASKS To gain a Merit:

TASKS To gain a Distinction:

P1.

M1.
Explore experimental and
nontraditional graphic media coherent
to the brief

D1.
.Explore independently diverse experimental
and nontraditional graphic media

Use experimental and

nontraditional graphic media
techniques of choice
Potato Print day in Jan
Own photographs
Own paintings and patterns
Own textures
Stencil
Drawings

P2.

Use mixed media when

producing outcomes that will
become parts of your packaging,
graphics or logo designs
Show examples of how these
can be used and placed

P3.

Select your re- production

techniques suitable for the
product outcomes, ready for
print and sustainable outcomes

Brief IVd by Marie McGovan

M2.
D2.
Design effective graphic media
Design innovative graphic media outcomes
products by carrying out experimental
independently which uses experimental and
and nontraditional media practices
nontraditional graphic media practices
which will work as elements within your Present a range of detailed alternatives that
packaging design products
can be used as parts of the final product
Present appropriate work drawings
design outcome later in the project
where you show how the mixed media
elements can be placed on your later
outcomes
M3.
D3.
Write in depth specifications based on analysis
Explain and use references to wellof the brief how you will go about using rechosen examples reproduction
production techniques in your final packaging
techniques used towards graphic image
design outcomes
outcomes and packaging design

Specification with detailed proposal showing

outcomes
a range of alternatives and references
Specification with detailed proposal

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Miskin Arts
Unit 45 Graphic Image Making IN PART
IMPORTANT: The following are TASKS (not to be confused with grading criteria)
TASKS To gain a Pass:
TASKS To gain a Merit:
P1.

Identify the use of graphic image making

such as symbols and logos and the use of
letters, signs, images and illustrations as
well as photographs. This could be in form
of packaging research and product labels
and mixed media products, but you could
also look at 19th century satire as well as
contemporary corporate identity

P2.

Use the idea generating techniques and

creative thinking techniques you have
studied in unit 3 to create relevant ideas for
your chosen briefs

M1.
Describe how the use of graphic
image making and use has the
ability to inspire you and your idea
developments to create graphic
images
Show the connection between
your research and your ideas
M2.
Be effective and demonstrate a
considered approach to using
graphic image making when you
create you artwork, logo, graphics
and packaging nets relevant to the
brief
Document health and safety
guidelines in action

P3.

Show you are able to demonstrate

developments of ideas and concepts
Improve your ideas

P4.

M3
Create your final outcome against the brief
This should include graphic media for
packaging, logos or other graphic
outcomes

Brief IVd by Marie McGovan

Present your final outcomes that

answers appropriately to the
theme of the brief you have
chosen

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TASKS To gain a Distinction:

D1.
Apply investigation, as in a case study or
analysis during the development process
of your ideas
Use these findings and discovery of
techniques and processes to produce
your own graphic image outcomes which
are original and innovative

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Unit 97 Product Design FINAL ASSESSMENT
IMPORTANT: The following are TASKS (not to be confused with grading criteria)
TASKS To gain a Pass:
TASKS To gain a Merit:
P1.

M1.
Demonstrate effective 2D and 3D
communication of ideas and
concepts to meet the requirement
of the product design brief

Analysis of the brief (will be introduced

earlier in the project)

P2.

M2.
Show outlined ideas for 2D and 3D visual Purposeful design developments
communication
that are effectively meeting the
Perspective drawing, isometric drawing and
requirements in the design brief

Produce detailed perspective

planned nets
drawing, isometric drawing and
planned nets and annotate
developments

P3.

Show you are able to demonstrate

developments of ideas and concepts
Improve your ideas

M3.
Show that you are able to analyze
and carry out testing in building
your packaging outcomes to
improve and develop your product
throughout and follow the design
briefing requirements
Trial and failure, trial and success

P4.

Create your final outcome against the brief

This should include packaging outcomes,
logos or other graphic outcomes

Brief IVd by Marie McGovan

Moni Aksdal

TASKS To gain a Distinction:

D1.
Create sustainable mixed media
prototype that shows aesthetic and
appropriate outcome for the product
design brief
This criteria is mentioned as a separate
point specifically within all 3 of the briefs
and needs to be fulfilled for a distinction
grade

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Brief IVd by Marie McGovan

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Assessment Grids

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Brief IVd by Marie McGovan

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