Purpose
Achievement Criteria
Explanatory Note 1
Use representation techniques to visually communicate own product or spatial design outcome involves:
- applying techniques to visually communicate the three-dimensional form, features, and materiality of own design outcome.
Use representation techniques to clarify the visual communication of own product or spatial design outcome involves:
- refining techniques to visually communicate the three-dimensional form, features, and materiality of own design outcome.
Use representation techniques to enhance the visual communication of own product or spatial design outcome involves:
- integrating techniques with precision to visually communicate the three-dimensional form, features, and materiality of own design outcome with visual impact.
Explanatory Note 2
Visually communicating involves using representation techniques to give the viewer detailed information of the form, features, and materiality of the product or spatial design outcome through the consistent use of a light source to show tonal changes.
Explanatory Note 3
Product or spatial design outcomes will utilise a representation mode and its associated representation techniques.
Examples include:
- hand-rendered presentation drawings
- physical models (such as hand built, 3D printed, laser cut)
- rendered digital models (such as CAD packages)
- animations (such as flythroughs).
Explanatory Note 4
Materiality may include:
- surface quality
- texture
- colour
- tone.
Explanatory Note 5
Features are aspects of the design that can be visually communicated and may include details.
Shared Explanatory Note
Refer to the NCEA glossary for Māori, Pacific, and further subject-specific terms and concepts.
This Achievement Standard is derived from the Technology Learning Area at Level 6 of The New Zealand Curriculum: Learning Media, Ministry of Education, 2007.
Conditions of Assessment
Students may work in groups to plan and give feedback, or seek feedback from their assessor, but all design work must be generated individually.
Students may have access to a full range of Design and Visual Communication tools.
Evidence for parts of this assessment can be in te reo Māori, English, or New Zealand Sign Language.
Unpacking the Standard
Mātauranga Māori constitutes concepts and principles that are richly detailed, complex, and fundamental to Māoridom. It is important to remember that the practice of these are wider and more varied than their use within the proposed NCEA Achievement Standards and supporting documentation.
We also recognise that the cultures, languages, and identities of the Pacific Islands are diverse, varied, and unique. Therefore the Pacific concepts, contexts, and principles that have been incorporated within NCEA Achievement Standards may have wide-ranging understandings and applications across and within the diversity of Pacific communities. It is not our intention to define what these concepts mean but rather offer some ways that they could be understood and applied within different subjects that kaiako and students alike can explore.
Mātauranga Māori constitutes concepts and principles that are richly detailed, complex, and fundamental to Māoridom. It is important to remember that the practice of these are wider and more varied than their use within the proposed NCEA Achievement Standards and supporting documentation.
We also recognise that the cultures, languages, and identities of the Pacific Islands are diverse, varied, and unique. Therefore the Pacific concepts, contexts, and principles that have been incorporated within NCEA Achievement Standards may have wide-ranging understandings and applications across and within the diversity of Pacific communities. It is not our intention to define what these concepts mean but rather offer some ways that they could be understood and applied within different subjects that kaiako and students alike can explore.
The intent of the Standard
Within this Achievement Standard, ākonga will gain understanding of the representation techniques required to visually present a product or spatial design outcome for potential viewers such as users, clients, communities, or other designers.
They will demonstrate visual communication thinking, focusing on aesthetics, visual appearance, surface qualities, materiality, function, operation and use. In terms of rendering, understanding tonal effects of a light source (shadows and highlights, textures, and material finishes) can contribute to impactful, persuasive, and engaging visual communication. To visually present their design outcomes, ākonga showcase or emphasise the most important aesthetic and functional features.
This aspect of the design process is about reflecting on how design ideas have become design outcomes. It is about how the learner can effectively communicate the purpose and benefits it has for the people and context it was designed for.
Making reliable judgements
The purpose of the design outcome should be made clear. This should be preferably through visually communicating the design outcome in its design context, or through a heading or a written statement. Representation techniques must be applied to ākonga own work.
Ākonga will show the form, features, and materiality of the design outcome. For a higher grade, they will refine techniques to visually communicate the three-dimensional form, features, and materiality of own design outcome and highlight details through the use of modelling or representation techniques.
To further enhance their designs, ākonga will create visual impact by integrating techniques to communicate the form and surface qualities, materiality, and design details with precision. For example, the precise rendering of light and shadow will give the viewer a much clearer representation of the form and materiality of the design outcome, making for a more effective and persuasive representation.
Collecting evidence
Ākonga will curate and submit a final presentation portfolio of evidence of up to 5 A3 pages (or equivalent) showcasing their design work of final rendered presentation drawings.
Evidence in the portfolio can take a range of visual forms, digital or physical, and may include drawings, annotations, and animations or photographs of your physical model.
For digital formats submissions will be:
- an mp4 movie file of no more than 1 minute in length
- an mp4 file of an animation or flythrough of no more than 1 minute length.
Communicating the form and features of their designs by exploring multiple views will allow for details to be shown clearly.
Possible contexts
Visual communication thinking will be explored by selecting and using a representation mode and associated techniques, such as digital modelling and rendered stills, animations, physical models, or hand-rendered pictorial drawings.
For a physical model, this involves using materials and construction techniques to convey the main form and features of a product or spatial design outcome, with the aim of showing as much detail of own design outcome as possible.
For a digital model or manual drawing, this involves using rendering techniques to show tonal effects or qualities of a light source on the main form and aesthetic features of a product or spatial design outcome. Ākonga will be encouraged to use highlights and shadows to communicate form consistently. Where possible, using multiple views will enable tonality and materiality to be shown to clearly convey form of the design outcome.
The intent of the Standard
Within this Achievement Standard, ākonga will gain understanding of the representation techniques required to visually present a product or spatial design outcome for potential viewers such as users, clients, communities, or other designers.
They will demonstrate visual communication thinking, focusing on aesthetics, visual appearance, surface qualities, materiality, function, operation and use. In terms of rendering, understanding tonal effects of a light source (shadows and highlights, textures, and material finishes) can contribute to impactful, persuasive, and engaging visual communication. To visually present their design outcomes, ākonga showcase or emphasise the most important aesthetic and functional features.
This aspect of the design process is about reflecting on how design ideas have become design outcomes. It is about how the learner can effectively communicate the purpose and benefits it has for the people and context it was designed for.
Making reliable judgements
The purpose of the design outcome should be made clear. This should be preferably through visually communicating the design outcome in its design context, or through a heading or a written statement. Representation techniques must be applied to ākonga own work.
Ākonga will show the form, features, and materiality of the design outcome. For a higher grade, they will refine techniques to visually communicate the three-dimensional form, features, and materiality of own design outcome and highlight details through the use of modelling or representation techniques.
To further enhance their designs, ākonga will create visual impact by integrating techniques to communicate the form and surface qualities, materiality, and design details with precision. For example, the precise rendering of light and shadow will give the viewer a much clearer representation of the form and materiality of the design outcome, making for a more effective and persuasive representation.
Collecting evidence
Ākonga will curate and submit a final presentation portfolio of evidence of up to 5 A3 pages (or equivalent) showcasing their design work of final rendered presentation drawings.
Evidence in the portfolio can take a range of visual forms, digital or physical, and may include drawings, annotations, and animations or photographs of your physical model.
For digital formats submissions will be:
- an mp4 movie file of no more than 1 minute in length
- an mp4 file of an animation or flythrough of no more than 1 minute length.
Communicating the form and features of their designs by exploring multiple views will allow for details to be shown clearly.
Possible contexts
Visual communication thinking will be explored by selecting and using a representation mode and associated techniques, such as digital modelling and rendered stills, animations, physical models, or hand-rendered pictorial drawings.
For a physical model, this involves using materials and construction techniques to convey the main form and features of a product or spatial design outcome, with the aim of showing as much detail of own design outcome as possible.
For a digital model or manual drawing, this involves using rendering techniques to show tonal effects or qualities of a light source on the main form and aesthetic features of a product or spatial design outcome. Ākonga will be encouraged to use highlights and shadows to communicate form consistently. Where possible, using multiple views will enable tonality and materiality to be shown to clearly convey form of the design outcome.
Standard Exclusions
This Standard has exclusion(s). Standards that recognise the same or similar learning outcomes as other Achievement or Unit Standards need to be excluded to prevent ‘double dipping’. Where two or more Standards assess the same learning outcome, those Standards are specified in the Exclusions List. You can only use credits gained from one of these Standards towards your NCEA qualification.
Click here for the exclusions list for the new NCEA Level 1 pilot Standards.
Standard Exclusions
This Standard has exclusion(s). Standards that recognise the same or similar learning outcomes as other Achievement or Unit Standards need to be excluded to prevent ‘double dipping’. Where two or more Standards assess the same learning outcome, those Standards are specified in the Exclusions List. You can only use credits gained from one of these Standards towards your NCEA qualification.
Click here for the exclusions list for the new NCEA Level 1 pilot Standards.