Proposal/Pecha Kucha

UAL Awarding Body - Level 3 Creative Media Production & Technology

Unit 8 - Project Proposal

Name	Nadia Lopes
Your Project Title	Poverty and Pollution around the world
Pathway (Preferred Media ‘specialism’): Games development, Animation, Graphics, Film, TV, Photography, Journalism, Radio, Web. This may be a combination of one or more.
Journalism – Photography and feature writing, layout and design
Section 1: Project Rationale (approx. 100 words) Since starting the course in September, What do you know now, and what does it mean to you, (compared with what you knew and could do before you started the course). How does what you know now influence your choice of pathway and your project proposal.
Since I started this course in September I now know so much and I’ve learned a lot because when I first entered this course I came in with little knowledge about TV and film but knew more about graphic design as I’ve done photography in my past life. I’ve learned how to use a filming camera and learnt to use it on the tripod. I learned that when it comes to shooting a film you have to pick the right location so for our horror film we filmed it in one of my group members house. We learned how to set up everything by the technicians and we just started filming straight away.I never ever wrote a script, this was the first time and we used a website called ‘celtx’. I remember when David read my script he thought it was good and that i had a good idea, and i never thought it would be that good since it was my first time writing one. We then just had the game shows and i feel that it was more harder than the horror one since you have more people in the group and there's a lot more to do. We all had different job roles to do even though we did help each other, we still had our own responsibility such as me, i was making the set design along with Lisa.I also was the vision mixer and i never knew what that was before and it sounded hard but it's really simple. Before I started this course the only thing I knew was how to edit pictures as I’ve been doing photography for a year in my old sixth form and I used my editing skills on editing our films. When I edited the films I felt like I had way more knowledge at editing then before, so it made me learn more. I really enjoy editing as editing makes up most of the films out there. What I now know in this course influenced me to make a featured article. Making a featured article involves publishing, writing and editing skills, and I think I do have that and I’m good at it. It also involves photography for when taking my own pictures. This could make me even more better and improved at publishing since i have done them a couple of times in the past.This means i could create anything to do with publishing such a magazine, leaflets, newspapers, flyers and many more. I really like journalism as it involves photography and editing and i can use them for my final project and this will show what my skills are when my final project is completed.
Section 2 Project Concept: (approx. 200 words) Clearly explain the concept and aims of your project and the context, research and ideas that will support its development. What are the historical, economic, social, mass media, cultural, political influences?  What is it you want to communicate and who is your audience? What access will you need to workshops, how will you use independent study?
The concept of this project is to let people know that poverty and pollution are serious issue our world is facing today. In some countries poverty is a real issue and pollution can affect the way we live as human beings. I want people to be alert of this and for people to have knowledge about this. I am going to write a featured article, take photographs for it and use layout and design to target at a certain type of audience. I know that poverty is a problem because through research poverty is a major cause of social tensions, people could be wondering why wealth is sometime poorly distributed among its citizens. I also know through research that pollution is affecting us because it can cause damage to not just people but, animals, trees, plants, crops and water sources in the environment. Air pollution causes problems for aviation because it reduces visibility, while it also damages buildings and other structure. What i want to communicate to the people is for them to contribute to stop all of this but obviously it's not that simple so i want us to reduce it as much as we can. My target audience is both men and women of age 18 and over, but since this article will be featured in a women's magazine i would like to mostly target it at women, since i know that poverty i think affects women more. i think this because women have a lot of things to worry about such as children. How i will use independent study is by researching more interesting facts about these and adding them to my article. I also will be watching videos about them and documentaries of people going to different countries to see how poverty are affecting people and the same for pollution.
Section 3 Evaluation and Reflection: (Approx 50 words) Explain how you will reflect on, and evaluate your work, as both an on-going activity and at the conclusion of the project. You should describe how you intend to record your decision making and how you will document changes to your ideas as work progresses.  The evaluation should be referred back to your aims. It must be reflective (‘why? Because?’) and analytical rather than a description of actions completed.
How I will reflect and evaluate my work is by using blogger. This is what I've been using since last year in September to talk about my work or what I've done in class. I'm going to be talking about all the software's I've used and saying how my final project turned out, also saying what people thought about my project like getting feedback. I'm going to talk about all the ups and downs that i might go through when creating this because i could come across a problem such as the layout might not be correct so i can say, what solution i came up with. I will document all the changes and drafts on the blog under Pre-production and planning which is where all my planning work will be.
Section 4: Research Sources and Bibliography Record the initial research sources, both primary and secondary, that you intend to use.  Your sources of research should be as wide as possible, including libraries, museums, galleries, journalism, articles, media, galleries, books, film/video, magazines, TV/radio programmes, web sites etc.
For primary research I will be researching other campaigns, like for poverty campaigns such as CAFOD or Barnardo’s which is mainly children in poverty. For pollution I will be seeing you tube videos of people who are talking and giving a understanding of what pollution is, and how it's affecting the world. Also i’ll be doing online research because there is a lot of websites out there about pollution. I’ll be watching documentaries about them too because i think they are more reliable since it's somebody going around and talking to us in the camera. For secondary research i will ask people of what they think about poverty and pollution and how it can decrease or completely be stopped around the world, like a mini interview. I also wanted to take a picture of them and feature it in my article to show the audience that people are getting involved and getting their point across and telling us how they really feel about these two subjects, it also makes it relatable to people.

Project Action Plan and Timetable
Week	Date Week Beginning	Activity / What you are intending to do - including independent study	Resources / What you will need to do it - including access to workshops
1	20/03/17	Pre-production, development and refinement Preparing the layout of how the article could look like also looking and researching featured articles.	A publishing software, other feature articles and online
2	27/03/17	Pre-production, development and refinement Preparing the layout of how the article could look like.	A publishing software
3	03/04/17	Pre-production, development and refinement Posting all my preparing work	Publishing software
4	10/04/17	Pre-production, development and refinement Posting all my preparing work	Publishing software
5	17/04/17	Production -Post production Writing about how i made the featured article	Blogger
6	24/04/17	Production-Post production Writing about how i made the featured article	Blogger
7	01/05/17	Evaluation My final thoughts on how everything went	Blogger
8	08/05/17	Evaluation My final thoughts on how everything went	Blogger