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
Stage 4
- PFM4-ADJ-01
in Stage 4 teachers may adjust the Stage 5 outcomes as appropriate to the needs of students in Years 7 and 8
Investigate how to communicate meanings using codes, symbols, signs and forms of multisensory language when making photomedia artworks
Evaluate how the choice of photomedia forms and the stylistic, physical and symbolic aspects of photomedia artworks are used to communicate meaning to audiences, and apply this understanding to own photomedia artworks
Make ethical and inclusive photomedia artworks using codes, symbols, conventions, genres, and forms of multisensory language to construct meaning and communicate intent
Investigate how to represent intentions and meaning in photomedia making through personal, imaginative, intuitive and expressive ways
Evaluate the ways photomedia practice influences how subjects, ideas and events are perceived, remembered and valued, and apply this understanding to own photomedia artworks
Make photomedia artworks inspired by visual metaphor, imagination, memories, personal and multisensory experiences, using ethical practices
Investigate how to represent meanings and intentions in photomedia making by using, adapting and respecting artistic, cultural and social conventions, traditions and protocols
Evaluate how the choice of images, stylistic conventions, genres and forms in photomedia artworks represent cultural and social ideas, concerns or beliefs to audiences and apply this understanding to own photomedia artworks
Make photomedia artworks using ethical practices to represent ideas that explore cultural and social values, and meaning about the world
Investigate how to represent meanings and intentions in photomedia making by using strategies and intertextual narratives that critique and reimagine accepted ideas and assumptions in photomedia practice
Evaluate how the choice of forms, texts, technologies, materials, production and presentation modes can challenge assumptions, reshape meaning and engage audiences, applying this understanding to own photomedia artworks
Make photomedia artworks that critically respond to contemporary culture, reflecting evolving ideas and technologies, using ethical practices