Work in progress 4/2/26
This will be a walk through guide on how to layout your Unit 3 (Final Major Project) which will start Mid February. If you follow the guidance and lay your work out in this suggested way it will hopefully enable you to work in a clearly constructed and coherent manner. What is important is that you work one practical project at a time and don't move on to the next stage until you get the work (images) into your PPT and write-up your Reflection.
Write your name and the title of the assignment on your first page
1. Analyse the brief
2. Produce the research x 2
*Additional research is advised throughout the work in order that it kick starts new ideas or supports using more experimental approaches to your work.
3. Write up the post research reflection
4. Start to compile your proposal. At this stage you should have a pretty good idea of what it is you're going to be doing at this early stage. Your rationale should include the fact that you're going to produce the work in such a way that it challenges you and enables you to have the time to produce your work in a variety of experimental ways exploring a range of equipment, methods, materials, techniques and processes. You should also mention problem solving, the development of ideas through additional research, robust planning and reflective practice, the analysis of your own use of visual language, your identification of an operational context and it's audience and potential use and clients and issues around sustainability and ethics.
*Remember, as you produce your project you will need to re-visit your proposal and update it so that it mirrors your activities seen in your project.
5. Plan/Intention Write up this part in as much detail as possible. With the plan, use it as an opportunity to identify potential problems prior to them happening.
- Explain your basic plan/intention.
- Identify a learning intention with regards your shoot.
6. "Execution" the production of the practical work in-line with the plan.
7. Reflection
Once you've got this far you now repeat stage 5, 6 and 7 as frequently as you can developing your idea and photographic skills whilst being as experimental as you can. With further research you can steer your work into new creative directions in terms of photographic content or the idea and concept. In an idea world look to do a minimum of 1 shoot per fortnight and during the holiday breaks try and use that as opportunities to shoot on location with new backgrounds, new models or places and potentially better light.
Finally leave time for a MEGA Reflection and check that your proposal mirrors what you've produced in your Design sheet.
