7–10Photography, Film and Digital Media 7–10 Syllabus (2025)
The new Photography, Film and Digital Media 7–10 Syllabus (2025) is to be implemented from 2028 and will replace the Photographic and Digital Media 7–10 Syllabus (2004).
2026 and 2027 – Plan and prepare to teach the new syllabus
2028 – Start teaching the new syllabus
School sectors are responsible for implementing syllabuses and are best placed to provide schools with specific guidance and information on implementation given their understanding of their individual contexts. Schools may choose to implement the new syllabus during the planning and preparation phase.
Content
Life Skills
- PFMLS-PMV-01
engages with Viewpoints when making photomedia artworks
- PFMLS-PMP-01
demonstrates safe photomedia practices
Through collaborative curriculum planning, it may be decided that Life Skills outcomes and content are the most appropriate option for some students with intellectual disability.
Explore how visual and/or multisensory signs and symbols can represent ideas, objects or relationships
Identify photomedia forms to use in their photomedia artworks
Recognise how to use stylistic, physical or symbolic aspects of photomedia artworks to communicate to audiences and apply this understanding to own photomedia making
Make a photomedia artwork that uses genre conventions, signs or symbols to communicate ideas
Identify a personal emotion, experience or memory for a photomedia artwork
Explore ways to create sensory or emotional responses when making photomedia artworks
Make a photomedia artwork that represents a personal, sensory or imagined experience
Identify a cultural, community, social interest or experience for a photomedia artwork
Explore photomedia artworks that share social and cultural experiences and use this as inspiration in own making
Make a photomedia artwork that respectfully represents social or cultural interests or experiences
Identify a social interest or concern that is personally significant in a photomedia artwork
Explore innovative forms, technology or materials that allow audiences to interact with photomedia artworks in new ways
Use innovative forms, technology or materials in own photomedia artworks
Explore ethical ways to appropriate, modify or reimagine images
Make a photomedia artwork that questions or raises awareness about contemporary ideas