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Elements and Performance Criteria

1. Source ideas for creative work
   • Select and review cultural, historical and contemporary information relevant to creative work
   • Extract and evaluate key ideas and concepts relevant to own work
   • Identify personal creative goals and gather information from a range of sources to develop ideas
2. Refine and communicate ideas
   • Refine ideas through experimentation with tools, techniques, and elements and principles of design specific to the creative work
   • Confirm ideas and techniques based on research, experimentation and discussion with key people
   • Discuss and present ideas and information about the work in ways appropriate to context and audience
3. Plan and produce creative work
   • Identify and plan work processes and resources required to produce the proposed creative work
   • Organise resources and work space based on the plan of work
   • Use and adapt resources safely and sustainably to realise ideas, showing proficiency with chosen techniques and resolving any technical problems within scope of own role
   • Create a record of the work that shows the process of development
4. Finalise and review work
   • Clean and maintain tools and work area, dispose of waste sustainably, and store equipment and materials safely
   • Review own work for technical proficiency and success in communicating ideas
   • Review process of creating work and its final outcome through self-evaluation and questioning others
   • Use relevant information from review to plan future skills development

Performance Evidence

Evidence of the ability to:

develop and refine creative ideas for work through exploration, review and discussion with key others

identify, select, assess and use techniques, tools, equipment and materials for creative work

safely and sustainably use and adapt techniques to realise ideas in creative work

create a physical, verbal, virtual, visual or written record of the creative work produced

clean and maintain work area, and tools and equipment used, in a safe and sustainable manner.

Note: If a specific volume or frequency is not stated, then evidence must be provided at least once.

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Knowledge Evidence

To complete the unit requirements safely and effectively, the individual must:

discuss ways to source information and develop, refine and communicate ideas for creative work

outline physical properties and capabilities of the range of materials, tools and equipment used in creative work

summarise ways of exploring, adapting and combining techniques and materials to achieve different effects

clarify formal elements and principles of design and how they apply to the production of creative work in the relevant context

discuss historical and theoretical contexts for creative work

summarise sustainability issues associated with tools and materials used in creative work

explain procedures for working safely in the specific area of creative work.

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