Check List / Brief Requirements

 B2 Check List and Requirements:

1. Informing Ideas:

• Make a production log 

• Interpret the brief – client, audience, requirements, purpose

• Explore the work of practitioners related to the theme

• Explore the potential of a variety of media in relation to your outcomes

• Make observations and records of the skills you explore and develop

• Use of research to inform development, outcomes and presentation to improve and refine work and ideas

2. Problem Solving:

• Generating initial ideas

• Experimentation

• Applying stages of the creative process in order to develop and refine

• Testing and feedback

Evidence could include a blog documenting a: 

1. Treatment or pitch 
2. Outcomes of testing/feedback
3. Critical review and selection 
4. Show stages of development and refinement

3. Technical Skills:

• Trying different techniques and seeing what is the most useful

• exploring the properties of media and making comparisons

• taking work through a series of different processes to compare outcomes.

Evidence could include documentation and reflection on:

1. The creative and technical skills you used
2. Initial intentions presentation – with early draft work and practical research into media
3. Series of prototypes
4. Final presentation
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4. Professional Practice

• consider and test what others do in the industry

• keep things safe and manage risks

• breaking up the assignment into manageable parts 

• exploring ways of working efficiently

• creating a proposal or plan 

• organising resources 

• Exploiting stages of the creative process.

Evidence could include documentation and reflection on:

1. The professional skills you developed to manage planning and production processes 
2. Presentation of the plan for your outcomes
3. Submission on time of an organised portfolio 
4. Outcome(s) that show an understanding of the related professional practice.

5. Communication

• Considering the client and audience needs 

• Working to ensure the meaning, message and impact are clear 

• Using visual language and creative forms of communication

• Expressing clear intentions at an early stage by aligning work with the audience and purpose of the brief

• Using testing and review to reflect on the quality of how the work communicates 

• Producing prototypes and outcomes that clearly communicate the needs of the briefs 

• Working with others and presenting intentions

Evidence could include showing examples of:

1. How effectively, fluently and imaginatively you communicated the intended messages through the work you produced, and to the clients via proposals, documentation, pitches, etc.
2. Initial intentions presentation – personal communication 
3. Series of prototypes that communicate ideas 
4. Reflection on stages of development with an explanation of choices in relation to the assignment 
5. Outcome(s) presented in relation to audience and related industry conventions