Scribd Logo
Upload

Welcome to Scribd!

  • 53 views

    Unit 8 Statement of Aims

    Uploaded by

    api-640938738
    This document outlines the requirements and guidelines for completing the Final Major Project, which is the summative assessment for the first year of the UAL Level 3 Diploma. It requires students to apply the skills and knowledge gained throughout the first year to independently plan and complete a substantial creative media production project. The project is intended to provide students with self-directed learning and an opportunity to clarify their long-term goals through exploring an area of interest in depth.

    Copyright:

    © All Rights Reserved
    Download as DOCX, PDF, TXT or read online from Scribd

    Unit 8 Statement of Aims

    Uploaded by

    api-640938738
    53 views5 pages
    This document outlines the requirements and guidelines for completing the Final Major Project, which is the summative assessment for the first year of the UAL Level 3 Diploma. It requires students to apply the skills and knowledge gained throughout the first year to independently plan and complete a substantial creative media production project. The project is intended to provide students with self-directed learning and an opportunity to clarify their long-term goals through exploring an area of interest in depth.

    Original Title

    unit 8 statement of aims

    Copyright

    © © All Rights Reserved

    Available Formats

    DOCX, PDF, TXT or read online from Scribd

    Did you find this document useful?

    Is this content inappropriate?

    This document outlines the requirements and guidelines for completing the Final Major Project, which is the summative assessment for the first year of the UAL Level 3 Diploma. It requires students to apply the skills and knowledge gained throughout the first year to independently plan and complete a substantial creative media production project. The project is intended to provide students with self-directed learning and an opportunity to clarify their long-term goals through exploring an area of interest in depth.

    Copyright:

    © All Rights Reserved
    Download as DOCX, PDF, TXT or read online from Scribd
    Download as docx, pdf, or txt
    53 views5 pages

    Unit 8 Statement of Aims

    Uploaded by

    api-640938738
    This document outlines the requirements and guidelines for completing the Final Major Project, which is the summative assessment for the first year of the UAL Level 3 Diploma. It requires students to apply the skills and knowledge gained throughout the first year to independently plan and complete a substantial creative media production project. The project is intended to provide students with self-directed learning and an opportunity to clarify their long-term goals through exploring an area of interest in depth.

    Copyright:

    © All Rights Reserved
    Download as DOCX, PDF, TXT or read online from Scribd
    Download as docx, pdf, or txt
    of 5

    UAL Level 3 Diploma

    Unit 8: Developing a creative media production project 


    The Final Major Project (Year One)

    STATEMENT OF AIMS

    Unit 8 is the summative unit in the first year of the two-year qualification. It will
    provide students with a measure of self-directed learning through the
    completion of a substantial creative media production and technology project. 
     
    The unit requires students to apply the skills, knowledge and understanding
    developed in Units 1–7, to complete a creative media production project. It will
    provide students with a measure of self-directed learning, and an opportunity to
    begin to clarify their longer-term goals through their choice of an activity to explore in
    greater depth

    Name
    Devon Dimond

    Disciplines
    (primary/secondary Video, sound
    )
    (e.g. video,
    animation, sound,
    photography
    Project (e.g. short
    narrative film, Experimental short film
    experimental short
    film, experimental
    animation,
    cinemograph, time-
    lapse etc. )
    Section 1: Rationale (minimum of 100 words)

    Before I started this course, I had experience with cameras, editing and photoshop
    from my time doing GCSE media. This course has helped me expand on these
    skills and learnt new skills like animation and after effects and because of the new
    skills learnt in after effects I decided to go down the experimental video for my
    project. Out of all of the different skills you learn in this course my favourite is video
    and film. By making an experimental short film I can improve my video skills and
    editing skills.

    Section 2: Project Concept (minimum of 200 words)

    For my project I would be experimenting with Video Copilots “saber” plug in for
    adobe after effects to create fun effects for my experimental short film that will be
    themed after Star Wars. My short film will be based on the theme of colour and
    movement by having 3 actors do a choreographed fight with toy lightsabres in a
    dark environment (most likely a forest) with coloured lighting that will reflect off the
    actors and the environment around them and because the video needs to loop
    what will happen is my main character will fight one enemy and defeat him then a
    second one will appear and the main character will defeat him and then the first
    enemy that he though he defeated will get up and then it’s a constant cycle of him
    repeatedly fighting and defeating the two enemies one after the other. There will
    be no talking in my film only the natural sound and sounds added in post-
    production. For this project I will need to do a location recce, risk assessment,
    storyboard and a call sheet. This will help me smoothen out my ideas for the
    choreography fight and make use of the props to their full extent.

    Section 3: Evaluation – How you plan to record your progress (minimum of 100
    words)

    I plan to record my progress at the end off each week. I will take notes throughout
    the week on what progress I have made and then write them all up on my
    Production diary tab on my Weebly site. This way I can spend all week focusing on
    making the film and then write about all progress made at the end of the week.

    Proposed Research Sources

    For my research sources I will use primary and secondary sources to focuson how
    people fight with swords or fight scenes from the Star Wars films to help me make
    a smooth choreographed fight and what colours to uses for the lightsabers to
    make a colourful scene
    Primary Research
    For primary research I will create a survey asking about what colour and what
    colours will work well against each other. I will also ask who their favourite
    lightsaber user is their favourite so I can understand what fighting style the
    audience will enjoy

    Secondary Research
    An example of a smooth choreographed fight is Anakin vs obi-wan from “revenge
    of the Sith”.
    https://youtu.be/AmR5LoyZ4jw - this is a fight choreographed and performed by
    professional fencers. I like this because it’s a smooth duel that is performed
    amazingly and I will take inspiration from this to hopefully make a clean duel.

    Equipment Required

    For my project I will require a camera, a computer that can run Adobe premiere
    pro and after effects I will also need the “saber” after effects plug-in. Lighting
    equipment.

    Resources Required

    Resources required
     3 or 4 toy lightsabers.
     A Nice open space for the actors to perform on
     A toy blaster gun ( because one on the enemies will use a blaster so that I
    can experiment with blaster physics in after effects.)

    Skills to develop/learn

    Currently I am learning the ins and outs off the “saber” plug in so I can use it as
    efficiently as I can for my project. I will also need to direct my project so I will need
    to learn to direct properly.

    Personnel and responsibilities

    My actors will be 16-17 y/o Male and Me who will be behind the camera and
    because only two actors will be on scene at the same time so the one who is not
    currently in shot will assist me with lighting and camera.
    Intended audience and context

    Because my project is themed after Star Wars which was first released in 1977
    and is still continuing currently. That gives me a wide target audience that my
    project is aimed at.

    How my project will ‘loop’

    The main character will fight the 2 enemies over and over again. When he
    defeats/knocks one down the other one will get back up and it will keep repeating.

    How to successfully complete a final major project

    1. Do something you enjoy – look back on projects this year and think about
    what skills you’ve learnt and which you have really enjoyed. What job would
    you like to do in the future? How can you apply it to your project? Pick an area
    which you can connect with.
    LOVE YOUR PROJECT

    2. Do lots and lots of research – primary and secondary are both essential.
    Use a wide range of methods and resources, such as questionnaires,
    surveys, interviews (Primary), and researching the work of professional
    practitioners and techniques (Secondary).
    3. Manage your time – 9 weeks of practical work is not long. Just think how
    fast this year has gone so far. Plan ahead and don’t fall behind. MAKE USE
    OF INDEPENDENT STUDY TIME.

    4. You must document everything what happens as you go along. Your entire
    journey from start to finish should be fully recorded. Describe and analyse as
    you go along. Every aspect of your project should be fully considered. Your
    Planning and Schedule will be vital to the success of your FMP

    5. Research, design, experiment, build, evaluate. Your project should evolve


    over the allotted time. Be flexible and adaptable if your FMP decides to go in
    a different direction than first intended. Ensure you record all developments as
    the project develops.

    6. Critically analyse and evaluate – this will refer to the research you undertake,
    the pre-production, production and post-production. Don’t just describe but
    analyse, interpret, research and evaluate.

    7. Listen to advice from your lecturers in formative assessment sessions


    throughout the project. You might just find that as we are used to marking
    work we know what the requirements are to make good/exceptional projects.
    Remember, your work will be graded at Pass, Merit or Distinction, so aim
    for the best grade you can and take advice on board when given.

    8. You are being graded against FOUR Learning Outcomes, so you need to
    ensure that you do the very best in each of them to achieve the grade you
    may require, so pay close attention to all parts of the FMP. Remember that
    the lowest awarded grade for any Learning Outcome will be the final grade
    for the FMP unit.

    You might also like