Over the last 3 months, I have been working on a project for the Level 2 Arts Award, a nationally recognised Arts qualification. My current school specialises in Art and thus the Arts Award is compulsory. Furthermore, if you fail, you are required to do an Arts subject for GCSE, but you don't get to choose! For this reason, I really want to pass.
The course comes in two stages: Stage 1 - Arts Challenge and Stage 2 - Leadership. There are also research tasks and career pathway paperwork to be completed in Tutorial. For my challenge, I took on the task of constructing a guitar/banjo out of junk that I could find in storage. Unfortunately, the school workshop was also being used for BTEC Sport coursework and I couldn't use any of the scroll saws, band facers, pillar drills or any of the tables. I was forced to use manual tools and use a table at the very back of the room to avoid disturbing the BTEC Sport lesson. This considerably prolonged the amount of time I had to spend working on the project. Nevertheless, I completed the challenge and completed all of the necessary paperwork.
In Stage 2, the task was to plan and teach at least 3 lessons in an Arts subject of your choosing. My partner and I chose to teach how to make a music video. We made use of the schools video cameras, tripods, film light, blue screen and green screen. Because it was such a difficult subject, we were given a time extention so we had 5 weeks to teach instead of 3. The extra effort paid off and the group's music video received positive feedback from the audience.
A link to my official Arts Award review will be uploaded soon.
I will also upload the photos of the project and the blueprints.
