PART #1 :: How to do your preparation work for Art & Design IGCSE 0400 - Paper 2 : Design Assignment

Hello art educators/teachers/students,

I am back to brief you about Design Paper, Art & Design IGCSE 0400 with some samples from my students.

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Please take note that our school are taking Art & Design IGCSE 0400 for November Series.

For our mock exam, I will use the June Series exam questions to prepare my students for the upcoming exams.

Above questions were taken from June Series 2016 Examination 

Referring to the questions above, I worked with my students on selecting the best question for them to do for the mock exam. 

Please take note (!)

• Design question requires you to choose what type of product you want to work with and to 'present' from your idea development progress and towards your final piece.
• You have to use your FIRST-HAND STUDIES when it stated in the question requirement and always encourage your students to expand the research, gathered their pictures, snap the photos, printed out as preparation work references.
• The truth about the whole set of preparation works and the final piece, 
  
  
  I 'DESIGN' MY LAYOUT AND ALL THE SEQUENCES ARE NOT COMING FROM THE CIE OR IGCSE, as a teacher, I think what is the best to meet what the question wants and guide my students towards the aim of each question. 
  
  
  As far as my experiences goes, my layout of helping them shows results. Good results. All the results, at the end of the day, based on each of the student ability and capability in presenting their preparation works and final piece.
  
  
  I do a lot of analysis too. Will talk about how to do analysis in next post. 

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I am going to use Reanne, Tian Huey and Yi Ruth art samples to explain further about the progress.

Reanne chose question number 4 and spent the time to expand her research about the healthy eating and food. Her idea, at the end of the progress, she is preparing a campaign poster as what the question wants - Grow Cook Eat. 

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In this prep 1, I always emphasise the important of introduction and the students should write in brief why the choose the question, what is the aim of the whole preparation work and what is their expectation at the end of the final piece. The students will attach some research material in the form of designer's work that inspired them to do the design or any product (as for above - poster) that given them some interesting idea to work with their ideas later on. 

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These are the details of the First-Hand Studies materials and the drawing/painting of the subject matters ( I think ) should show in first preparation work. LOVE the outcomes by her. 

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Above shows the close-up of a poster sample, taken from the internet that giving Reanne the inspiration for her upcoming idea development. She used a variety of media to do details on it. E.g, water colour, gel pen, pencil, etc. 

Reminder (!)

Annotation is still important in Design paper as well. Encourage your students to annotate all the process/progress/decision/selection - basically, journal the progress. 

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Going back to Reanne's Prep 2 - For a poster or front cover book or any printed product, I will encourage my students to study about the font types, the layout templates. From this prep, you can see that Reanne came out with the different type of fonts as well as putting some background and pattern to some of the fonts. She managed to arrange well with the font studies, templates and some studies with the images in it. It is supposed to be a 'technical' studies. 

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For the preparation 3 and 4, the students need to combine all the elements they did in prep 1 and 2. The students need to combine the font studies + layout + in co-operate with the subject matter (first -hand studies) 

You can see, the design paper is very direct and focus. At this prep 3 and 4, encourage your students to re-arrange the idea and emphasise the idea development with an interesting composition, proportion and colour choices. In between the process, we as a teacher, we have to give some design input/knowledge/exposure to help them to learn how to improvise idea from the research and the subject matters.  

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Reanne's final piece ( 8 hours controlled-test )

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To be continued. 

(with Yi Ruth and Tian Huey design work)

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