Project Report-Artefact

Principle Learning - Unit 7 - Project Report
Exam period week beginning 10th May 2010

The subject of my project report will be the work from Unit 3 - Artefact.
(Describe what the brief for this was)


Introduction:

Unit 2 - Performance
Unit 3 - Atrefact
Unit 4 - Record

The brief for unit 3 Artefact is that the project report I am doing is the Cd cover survey. Particularly, Doing this task was to find people’s different views and opinions what they think about my Cd cover and how well I have made to make my Cd cover outstanding for the audience.

The most important part for this project report is to improve my research skills. In this project report the basic things I need to collect my research skills are to carry out a survey, communicating with people and doing interviews so that it will be a lot easier for me write the people’s stasitics to level up my confidence and able to write a proper report for my Cd cover survey.


Section A - Resources:

(Research)

First of all, while I was doing my first primary research I decided to make my own survey related to the Unit 3 Artefact where I decided to do a project report about Cd cover. I created 11 simple questionnaires to let people understand the questions while filling their answers and write what they think of my Cd cover. From there I distributed the survey to the classmates first and later decided to do give it to some people from outside college so that I could know what their views and opinions on my Cd cover survey is. Normally from my class out of eight students, five were female and three were male. Many of them were from 16-18 age group and few of them were of 19+.
Basically from outside college, I decided to do at the St. Pauls Cray Library where many people come to read and do their own work so I thought it was the best idea to give them to fill up my questionnaires. At that time many women were present than male so I gave to all the women who were present in there and told them it was my coursework so they all agreed to do. After collecting the surveys from them, I found out many of them were from 19+ age group.

In my second primary research, we given a task to interview Mr. Richard who was a teacher in our college. As part of the creative media project report the class interviewed Mr. Richard who introduced himself and started giving a speech about the Cd cover designs and other things like talking about pop singer Michael Jackson, downloading in ITUNES, listening to songs and watching videos in youtube and even talked more about other things. In the middle of the speech, we did answering the questions with Mr Richard and again he continued with his speech.

For my third primary research, I did a survey to find their different views and opinions regarding the the Unit Artefact where i chose to do the Cd cover. The questionnaire survey which subject tutor gave us a hint to create our own questionnaires. We all agree to do what the tutor told us and created the questionnaires. In first I made nearly 16 questions but made some changes and cut down some questionnaires to make a lot easier for the people to understand and answer the questions easily. The title for the survey was “Unit 7 : Project Report”. Basically, the sub-heading was “Artefact Cd Cover Survey” The questions were referring to the sub-heading containing the questions about the Cd cover from Unit Artefact . After making the survey I handed out the questionnaire to my classmates from my media and creative diploma class and and even some people from outside college to see their own views and opinions.
In this question 1, they were asked to tell their gender. Basically, this question is reliable because its necessary to know which gender is from.
In this question 2, they are asked to mention their age group so that I would know what kind of age group people would like or dislike about the Cd cover I made. Probably this question is simple and in fact reliable because the question itself shows that what kind of age group would prefer the style of Cd cover.
In this question 3, they were asked what kind of gender attracts the style of Cd cover. I think the question is good because I would know which kind of gender prefer the Cd cover.
I think this question 4, is quite necessary for the people who did my survey because they would write their own views and opinions when they first sight the Cd cover.
Likewise in question 5, its referring the people whether they have their likes and dislikes about the Cd cover. The question is also quite necessary because they would write their own views about the Cd cover whether they like some part and dislike other parts of the cover.
From question 6-10, the answers for all the questionnaires are to agree or disagree. In more basic way, the questions are practically good because they could say what they agree and disagree. In question 6, the question asked about whether they like the pictures or not. In question 7, its asked about the background image whether the images of the Cd cover fits with it or not. In question 8, its asked whether they would prefer the Cd cover attractive or bad. In question 9, they are asked to answer whether the back Cd cover and front Cd cover fits with each other or not and finally in question 10, its asked whether they would buy it or not if they pass through the store.
Lastly, the question 11 is just to comment and write their own views and opinions about the Cd cover.
Section B - Evaluation:

(Report)

In my first primary research, Mr Richard introduced himself and gave information about Cd cover designs, Michael Jackson, downloading and more other things.
Firstly, He talked about the rock band ‘Paramore’ Cd cover and music. He showed us the design of the cover and style of music. Later he showed and talked about the music video and the website for different artists and bands. He told us about the definition of record and how it works along with the credit. He talked about downloading legally in ITUNES means buying with money online because nowadays people prefers the free downloads from other sites which is not legal and not acceptable for the laws. He even told about the website ‘Youtube’ where people listen and watch videos. He spoke about the late king of pop ‘Michael Jackson’ from the music industry about his music and style he contributed to the world. He even talk about some directors, producer and singers who are gradually getting famous and the money they earn will be distributed within them. He told us that about how to download songs in MP3. After he gave his speech, he gave his introduction and his work in the past years as a teacher and after. He told us about his salary which is £28 per hour. After he gave his speech and introduction, he told us to research the band designs and art worked done by them and see the layout how they used, how big the log they have used and focus on how they do that. He reminded us that we should know what we are doing and thinking of getting new ideas in making the Cd cover. During the speech, we asked him some questions regarding the Cd cover designs and other things . His answers were quite reliable and didn’t hesitate to give us a good answers.

In my second primary research, the survey I gave to the people from outside college and the classmates from the class did what they were asked to do. it was really hard giving to people from outside because i felt very shy but they all accepted to do my surveys.
More formally, from inside the college the survey i gave them was quite varied due to their own views in some questions.
In question 1, Out of all people from inside and outside college 5 were female from the class and 16 female from outside. As for males 3 were male from inside but none of the male from outside. In regarding the answer, both from inside and outside majority of female than male were there to do the survey.
In question 2, out of 8 people 7 people were from 16-18 age group and 1 person was from 19+ which is from inside the college as for outside 12 people were 19+, 2 were from 16-18 age group and 2 were from 11-15 age group. The answer is quite in contrast because many people were from 19+ and 11-15 age group was quite few.
In question 3, From both inside and outside college majority people said ‘both’ because the Cd cover has the style which attracts both male and female. Some people from inside the college preferred ‘female’ due to girlish style of music and images in the Cd cover. I would say the answer is quite reliable as I also thought it was quite for both male and female aspects for my Cd cover.
In question 4, many people have gave their own views and opinions in this question like some said its unique and some said it has the gothic/rock style of music and some said they like the contrast between light and dark contrast. The answer was quite good and bad because the first impression they saw is quite edible and different. More formally, both from inside and outside referred in different views as the answers were normally same from both the sides of the people.
In question 5, the way the people wrote is quite interesting because the answers are completely different and what they likes and dislikes is quite good. Majority of people from both inside and outside college said they like the contrast between angel and devil, features and style. In dislike, majority of them said they didn’t like the darkish and scary concept which normally many people didn’t prefer in these days. So, I would agree to this answer because the word they describe for my Cd cover is quite true due to heavy style of my Cd cover.
In question 6, out of 8 people from inside the college 6 of them said ‘yes’ and 2 people said ‘no’. As for outside the college, out of 16 people 13 of them said yes and 3 people said ‘no’. In my opinion, the pictures may reflect some poeple as for other it would probably find it bad due to darkish concept used in the cd cover.
In question 7, out of 8 people from inside the college 5 of them said ‘yes’ and 3 people said ‘no’. As for outside the college, out of 16 people 13 of them said yes and 3 people said ‘no’. Regarding the answer, i think the answers are quite varied because majority referred the background fitting with the images in the cd ocver but few disagree due too musch of colours being used.
In question 8, out of 8 people from inside the college 4 of them said ‘good’ and 4 people said ‘average’. As for outside the college, out of 16 people 10 of them said ‘good’ and 6 people said ‘average’. In my own views, I think the answer is varied due to many of them said ‘good’ but in some cases many said ‘average’ because the answer in agreeing and disagreeing which is quite interesting for me as its their own choice in answering what they think about the cd cover.
In question 9, out of 8 people from inside the college 7 of them said ‘yes’ and 1 person said ‘no’. As for outside the college, out of 16 people 7 of them said ‘yes’, 8 people said ‘maybe’ and 1 person said ‘no’. This question is quite necessary because the front and back Cd cover is quite different due to different images and and in my opinion the answers are quite true.
In question 10, Majority of them said ‘no’ from inside and outside college because many of them suggested the style and theme of my Cd cover was not quite their style of music they want due to its look it had the feeling of dark and hard rock style of music than R‘N’B/HIPHOP style of music genre which nowadays many people listen to that kind of music songs.
Lastly, I think the last question is quite different and basically I want people to write what they want to say in their own views and opinions for my Cd cover. Basically, many commented that liked it but in some cases people didn’t like the design and features of the cover due to images and fonts used are like the rock music and completely have mystery and emotional concept. In regarding the answer, i think its true because i would probably say the Cd cover has emotional and sad songs but in heavy and rock genre style of music.

(Evaluation)

Doing this project report, the most difficult part was the research and report because in research the difficult part was to give survey to people from outside the college which I didn’t like the idea at all but it was a coursework so I have to find people a lot as for report we have to write a lot of information regarding the question surveys done by the people from inside the college and outside the college. The other thing I was not able to do a proper report is that I was not present in the interview but got some information from my classmate so that i could write for my primary research in both the section A and section B.
OveralI, I would say my project report is average. If I were to prepare a new one I would like to make my planner for my project report in a specific and understandable way so it would be easier for me to write my report and fully prepare my answers in a good way.

Reliability of My Research

Secondary Sources:

For my secondary sources, I researched the information by using an internet. Firstly, I research on range of music jobs in an internet normally on www.wikipedia.co.uk site to find some information because many people rely on this site due to having definitions on a hyperlink therefore some of the meanings for the words was quite hard to understand so I just wrote the name of the career and click on it and there the different sites were shown in the screen. I randomly chose some of the sites and used some details about the careers.

Questionnaires on careers in the music industry

What are the skills, qualifications and experience necessary to create a successful career in music teaching and/or performing in a group?

1. Do you work in the music industry?
__________________________________

2. If you were going work in the music industry which one would you choose?
A record producer
Songwriter
Singer
other (say which?_____________)

3. Which skills do you think would be necessary to be a singer or songwriter?
an ear for music
singing talent
writing skills

4. What qualifications do you think would be most helpful to pursue a career in record producer or music promoters ? (give your chosen careers)
(give three or so choices with tick boxes)
a. GCSEs
b. Diploma or GNVQ
c. Degree in music
d. No qualifications necessary

How important is experience for a career as a record producer or music promoters ?
a. very important
b. somewhat important
c. not important

Please explain why??
_____________________________________________

Discussing on PROJECT

During the Music class, Frank came to our class for small discussion on project. we were given a sheet of paper related to project work. we discuss in how to get information and details to two jobs we have done before and told us to do some quetionnaries survey.

Radio Play Intro

Planning for Radio Play Intro:

I will be creating a radio play intro trailer for 30 seconds.

1. Voiceover:
The introduction for radio play opening will be of 10 seconds.

‘‘Hello Everyone to Radio Drama Programe. The radio play title is The Stranger.The director and producer is Emmanuela.The music and sound effects is done by Patrick. The narrator is Susan.Falak is Lauren and Emmanuela is Lauren’s friend.’’
Overall it will be of 10 seconds for the radio play opening.

2. Background:

I will be creating a background music for my radio play which will be of full 30 secomds. It will be of soft melody with a dark concept to make it mystery and little scary according tot he scene of the chosen clip.

3. Sound effects:

I will be researching a sound effects in an internet with each 2-3 seconds playing together with the chosen clip given in below. The sound effects I am going to create will be 'girl walking in the road',‘sound of someone knocking at a door' and 'after the noise of the door that squeaks’, ‘a door opens’ and ‘a door closes’.

4. Clip:
‘‘The day of the date she left home in time(girl walking in the road). (sound of someone knocking at a door and after the noise of the door that squeaks) She entered in his house and it was in darkness.....( a door opens) Bang!!(door closes).........and never came out.
Is she alive?

“See you on next monday at the same time with unbelievable episode on BBC1 at 12p.m.’’
This clip will be of 10 seconds.

Planning for my survey

For my first task for the project report, i have finished my question survey of my class. Now, I will be distributing to different age groups of people from my college or to my family members and friends. For this second task I needed to find 20 people to answer my question survey of my Cd cover. I am planning to ask more on girls than boys to fill up the answers for my project report.

FOUR Initial designs on campaign

Out of all the campaigns, I decided to do the Anti-smoking campaign.
I did this because I think many people of the age group from 16 years and above starts smoking and terrorizing their health a lot. I would describe smoking cigarettes have dfifferent reasons like stress, fashion, forced, intersts and more. From the above sentences the most distracting thing would be fashion becasue nowadays when young people see their parents or friends smoking they take interest just like that to showoff in front of many people that they are growing older and can understand thier position in smoking cigarettes. In some cases like in music or fashion industry the models and sinmgers also do photoshoots and mainly music videos where the the main person smoke due to tragic and some caes like happiness just to show their concepts for their music style which also gets the centre attention the young people who thinks smoking cigarettes are like getting in a fashion sense and showoff to other people which i find it definately wrong because they should undestand the present health which could cause serious problems in the future.

Planning for my campaign Poster:-

(No. 1)

The title of my campaign poster is 'Smoking is Killing Me'. I chose this name to fit the concept of my poster for an anti-smoking campaign. In my poster, the ‘Heart’ with black colour spreading out in it describes the human’s important part of the body which is also the target for the people who smokes a lot and eventually may affect their health by getting diseases like heart diseases. As for the ‘Cigarette’ piercing a human heart to show that people will be effectively affect their heart if they smoke a lot. Likewise for the ‘Smoke’ shows that smoking could lead like a flowing river which our inner parts of the body could be destroyed and make our health look bad.
As for the ‘Red bubbles’ which is actually blood tells us that if too much of blood is wasted from our body, it may lead to loss of our body. I even used ‘Text’ to write my title and a website with red colours to stand out to my target audience. The main thing why I mention the website in my poster is to let people visit my website and find how it is and know more about anti-smoking campaigns as many young people are starting to smoke in their young age which includes adults too. The fonts and colours are used for the title and the website is done in a simple and focused in an attractive way. Overall, this campaign’s target audience would be every age groups but I wanted to mention it from 16 years and above because many young people are smoking a lot and destroying their body health.

(No.2)

The title of this campaign is "Say 'NO' or Life Will Be Breathless". I chose this camapign name because the image shows us that smoking can lead to lot of pollution in air like smoky factories, vehicles and lots more which causes air pollution. The target audience could be for everyone as the image is not quite proper in understanding what it means but has a litlle meaning saying 'NO' to soking which is the only easiest part where many peope, would understand it. The cigarette with black cross definately shows not to involve in smoking and immediately day 'no' to anyone who insists you to smoke. As, for the title means people should be aware of other people who smokes and insists you to join you in smoking which the answer should be 'no' tot that person or could to dangerous diseases like heart problems and mouth infection.

(No.3)

The title for this campaign is "Just say 'NO'". The title I chose for this was due to the images which is was quite simple made showing a smoke coming out from the cigarette laying side in the ashtray which definately fits with the title due to its simple images. this campaign would be probably for the young people from 16 to 21 year age group because I just to want to let many young teenagers from these age groups to understand the value of health and their life for the future. The image of a smoke of the cigarette floating around shows that the if the person smokes it will be hard to reduce the smoke inside their body and it will spread around their blood veins, heart and every part of the body which could cause a fatal pain in your health and loss of your weight due to too much of smoking everyday and even spread out to other people around you. The ashtray was just given a small hint to make the cigarette laid in the side of the ashtray to make a final touch.
Overall, if I would be seeing this campaign somewhere in posters or an internet, I would not look at it as much in interest due to lack of colours and simple fonts used on it. In this campaign if I was given to change and use digital images I would try to use more colours and good fonts to fit the image of the campaign.If I would say it in my opinions about this anti-smoking campaign I made I definately didn't like it as musch as other three campaigns due to lack of background, simple images which didn't directly attracts the target audience what this campaign really means.

(No.4)

The title of this campaign is 'Smoke Will Kill Me'. The target audience for this campaign would be from age group 16 years and above. I chose the name of this title becasue according to the images I decided to use this aimple title which sounds good for this campaign and really fits with the images. The images shown in this campaign tells us that smoking is llke a gun. The cigarette is shown like a gun with 'bang!' sound to let young people know that if you shoot with a gun you will get pain in your body just like that if you smoke cigarettes you will Sstart to destroy your health from young age and will get a lot of pain in your body in your upcoming future. Out of all the three campaigns this is the one I like the most because the image with a gun style cigarette with bang bang sounds looks different and good and even the the writing font is simple with yello and green colours just to look attractive for the people to see.