Exploring using drawing

Exploring your starting point using drawing (or any other form of making).
Deadline: Monday 11th Jan

Task:
Fill pages with drawings relating to your brainstorm.
Thos that struggle with drawing, FEEL FREE TO USE A LIGHTBOX.
Use a variety of different media. Look at the presentation above for inspiration.

Title: 'Exploring using drawing.'
Annotation should include 1. Your intention. 2. Any observations about the images that spring to mind and 3. An evaluation of the task.

Helpful links:   

How to draw
Primary drawing  

Gather Related Imagery

Using your brainstorm as a reference, you should now gather together related imagery. This can be anything related to your theme. Be clever, obvious, playful and creative with your choices
Include your own drawingm marks, decoration.. 
Create a clear title.

Remember! The more you can introduce your own drawing and creative making into your pages, the better result you will obtain!

Don't forget to annotate as you go along. What is your intention and what have you achieved at the end of the exercise. What interesting observations have you made along the way?

Deadline: Mon 11th of Feb

Brainstorming

 
Over a page or two of your sketchbook or presentation, brainstorm the starting point that you have chosen. Be creative with your ideas and DON"T refuse anything that you think of. 
Feel free to consider 'forms at this point if you like.
Fill up your pages and annotate. What are you attempting to do and what are the outcomes.

Deadline: Tuesday 5th of Feb

Exam Start! Component 2.

Your Graphics exam will take place all day on Wed 10, Thurs 11 and Friday 12th April. That's 15 hours. 
Your exam sketchbook preparation starts today, Friday the 1st of Feb. That's 8 weeks of college with a half term in the middle.
This is Comp 2 and the final 40% of your grade.
After the exam, there will be 2 college weeks of 'snagging' time for you to tidy up comp 1 and 2. 
And then you leave!.

Spend 1/2 an hour to choose a starting point that provides some interest. 
Then get started!

Final word count for AO1 should be 2000-3000wrds.
Deadline: Thursday 6th December.

• Read back through your personal investigation. 
• The practitioners that you have chosen will suggest a theme that is reflected in your practical work. 
• Come up with a good two-part title. The first part should grab attention. The title will be answered or explored in your writing.
• Write until you have concluded your investigation. 
• Make sure that you have evaluated the approaches of artists, compared and contrasted, asked suitable questions and searched for relevant answers, and present your own, considered points of view
• A. B and C grade students will revise their essay. Going back in and editing, taking bits out that are irrelevant and tightening it up. 
• Give it to a friend or relative. Ask them to feedback- does it make sense? Does it explore? Is there a clear introduction and a satisfying conclusion?
• Correct spelling and punctuation.
• Include a bibliography.

Stundet Assessment Objective Checklist.

The exam board issue students with an Assessment Objective Checklist. Here's their version. I have made a simplified version HERE.
We can use the separate elements from the assessment objective to shine a light on where you need to focus your efforts. It can also help to put your mind at rest, to show you that there is a finite amount of work.
We are going to go through your work and add colour coded post-it labels for each of the assessment objective elements. 
Pink for AO1. Blue for AO2. Orange for AO3.
Make sure you write the AO and the number element on the post-it.
Please note, you could have all of these elements and still gain a low grade. Quality of work is still needed. 

Personal Investigation Extended Writing 750-1500 words

Deadline: Monday 29th October

Read back through your personal investigation. Link another designer to continue where you left off. Use the Contextual Investigation and Looking at Artefacts sheets.
Within this section, please ensure that you are comparing and contrasting the two designers. Use this sheet to help.