Refined drafts

Objective
To further develop your layout ideas

Task
Take one of your favourite scamps and draw it neater at an A5-ish size.

Do this 3 times with the same design, refining each time as you go. After each drawing, annotate to describe what elements you can change and refine. This could be type size/placement, character size/placement,
You don't have to include colour at this stage.

AO2 Refine their
ideas through experimenting and selecting appropriate resources, media, materials, techniques and processes

Presentation
Photograph and post to presentation.
Checklist for assessment
3 refined drafts with annotations.

Deadline
Tues . 13 July

Drafting Ideas

Objective

To explore and develop different ideas through drafting.

Task

Using the presentation above for ideas, create a set of drafts that further your project ideas.

Use pencil or pen.
Annotate your ideas as you progress.

Presentation

Photograph your sketchbook pages and post to blog

Checklist for assessment

Lots of interesting ideas.

Time needed

3 hrs

Deadline

TBC

AO1 Contextual Investigation - Hwk

AO1 Contextual Investigation

Looking at an Artist / Practitioner

Objective 

Develop ideas through sustained and focused, personal investigations informed by contextual and other sources, demonstrating analytical and critical understanding.

Very important!

Present your work as much in the style of the artist as you can. Maybe write your notes first, then present last in your sketchbook / Google presentation.

1

Find an artist or another practitioner that has a link to your theme. This does not have to mean that they use the same subject matter, you could consider their style to be of interest.

2

Explain your personal response. Use the pink section on the LOOKING AT ARTEFACTS sheet to help your questioning and responses.

3

Criticise and analyse their work. Use the remaining 3 sections of the  LOOKING AT ARTEFACTS sheet to help your questioning.  (This should be the biggest part of your investigation.)

4

Gather 4 examples of their work and bullet point why they are characteristic of the artist.

5  

Respond to their work by emulating their style or process. Take characteristics of their work and merge them with your own work. Translate the work into your own ideas.

Don’t spend hours coping whole images. Copies don’t earn many marks - your personal response does!

Extra 1

Take two pieces. One from the work of your chosen artist and the other from a different artist within your theme. Compare and contrast their work. What features or elements do they share and which are their own. Go into as much detail as you can.

Extra 2

Research to find out who the designer has been influenced by or has influenced. To do this you may need to read an interview with the illustrator.

Extra 3
When and where did they work? State if this had any effect on the work they have produced? What is the purpose and intention of their work?



It is important that your annotation is well researched, thought out and expressed. It is also vitally important that your pages are presented in a creative and interesting way.

N.B. There must be NO copy and paste from the internet. It stands out and makes you l
ook like you have no imagination or creativity.  Ask yourself… could anybody else have
written what is in your research? If the answer is yes, it is not personal enough.

Have fun with it. Presentation is vitally important - it communicates your creativity before your
words do.

Checklist for assessment
Relevant images, in-depth research and response in your own words (no copy and paste), accurate emulation.

Deadline
Tuesday 27th Feb.

Any problems, email me: deh@thomasadams.net

Component 2

The component 2 list has now been updated. 

Example 114 / 120

Whole Group Feedback Tips

GCSE Graphic Communication

Whole Group Feedback Tips

Put your name on the first slide.

There are lots of handmade pieces of work missing.

Look for work that you may have forgotten about in your sketchbook.

The start of your presentation: Chosen Brief, then Brainstorm/Annotating content.

Use the annotation help to explain your thought during each section of the project.

Don’t just describe what you are doing - discuss what the intention is, what you have learnt, how it relates to your project.

Rename ‘Pinboards’ section ‘Research’.

Images and text needed on every slide. No slide with just text.

Spell check and read through.

Take out quote slides from case studies.

WIP = Work in progress. Include it where you can.

No powerpoint animations (appearing text etc) Doesn't work on PDF.

Present your final piece.

Comp 1, not Unit 1.

Don’t use powerpoint templates.

Lose the whitespace. Busy = good. Look at the layout of your slides and fill up space.

Evaluation at the end.

Eduqas GCE Art and Design Paper 2018