Rational ect

Name	Thomas Fletcher
Pathway
Project Title	Final Major Project	Unit No
Section 1: Rationale/Review (Level 2 approx 50 words, Level 3 approx 100 words)
a)       Outline the knowledge, skills and understanding you have acquired. b)      Explain what you need now, and what it means to you, compared with what you knew and could do before you started the course, c)       Explain how this has influenced your choice of pathway and your project proposal. The skills that I have applied over the last projects and will apply to this project are my time keeping skills because i believe that they have improved massively and the fact that  i now believe that I can run a project efficiently and simply so that i have more time to reshoot or produce new content if needed. I will also use my understanding of how war is presented in media from my essay of a critical comparison between The longest day and Saving private ryan. This shows how war has been represented and how to show a tone emotion in my piece which is a good thing to know because if i wanted to show a certain emotion then i could show that through a certain color which is and aspect that i could use and that i want to show and demonstrate in my piece. I have also acquired skills in photography and I have gained the knowledge and understanding of a photography which I have used and put into practice over the last year such as I now know how to use focal point through the view finder in dslr and I understand the use of depth of field and how to use that in my shots to give them depth and a deeper meaning. This means to me that I could do something I enjoy and improve on it and as I want to do this for my career in the future this is a good opportunity to showcase my skill and understanding and as a way to practice and improve my technique, as for what I need I need to set loose with a camera and use my skills and start doing practical work. This has influenced my choice through my fmp last year meaning that I could do something I enjoy and wanted to try and make that my profession later on so I am using this year’s fmp as experience and building my skills and knowledge.
Section 2: Project Concept (Level 2 approx 100 words, Level 3 approx 200 words)
a)      The research and ideas that will support your project development. b)      What you anticipate producing, the level and types of recourses that you will need, and c)       An indication of the form in which you will complete and present your final realisation (product) with the allocated timescale. For my FMP I would like to do Toy photography again to improve my skills and come away with more than last year by either doubling the amount of pictures or halving it but upping the quality as well as I would like to do this as my profession in the future as well as a part time hobby whilst I am working. I would like to do a war theme but they may extend into fantasy science fiction shots as well. To make these shots i would build my own mini diorama and sets on an old cooking trays like my inspiration does he gathers some random pieces out of his garden and forests and he make an environment from then to soot the shot that he is doing as well as he does a series of outside shots to get a certain effect that would soot the shot better which i would be tempted to incorporate shot dependent. My idea would also have me use a variety of lighting depending on what i want to show which is something i would look into and learn from in the future and could hopefully display. With this piece I want to demonstrate and show a child's imagination when the buy a new toy so I would be showing the excitement or the drama / sadness when a character dies in their stories or the excitement of an action scene. In my piece i will show existing assets and characters that have been officially released by Lego themselves rather than customized figures although some customized figures made by me may be used depending on what type of shot and theme i use. The research I have conducted is I have looked at my inspirations for the project and the shoots I plan on doing and seen how they make there shoots and the equipment they use so I know what I am doing it and how to do it.
Section 3: Evaluation (Level 2 approx 50 words, Level 3 approx 50 words)
You should describe how you intend to record your decision making and how you will document changes to your ideas as the project progresses. For this i will show my setup and settings as well as i will show what equipment that i will use to take those shots and i will document these in my blogger as well as i will show all of my shoots in blogger and then i will show these in folder format so that i can evaluate them as a whole and pick out the best shots I will document my progress by doing a weekly review fo my shots and gather feedback on them each week.
Proposed Research Sources and Bibliography (Harvard Format)

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		My first week is dedicated to test shoots and the review of these shoots and finding out what I can do to improve my shots	DSLR Table top lighting kit tripod and the materials I will use to create my sets and the figures I will use in my sets and shoots
2		This week will be me applying my knowledge of my previous shoots and applying them to my second set of test shoots and figuring out whether these new shots after review need digital editing	DSLR Table top lighting kit tripod and the materials I will use to create my sets and the figures I will use in my sets and shoots
3		This week after gathering my two weeks of work I will go through each and pick out the best ones as well as I will use peer feedback to find out what I can do to improve.	DSLR Table top lighting kit tripod and the materials I will use to create my sets and the figures I will use in my sets and shoots
4		This week would be used to apply more peer feedback that I have gathered and start to take some of my final shots (this will leak into next week.	DSLR Table top lighting kit tripod and the materials I will use to create my sets and the figures I will use in my sets and shoots
5			DSLR Table top lighting kit tripod and the materials I will use to create my sets and the figures I will use in my sets and shoots
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7			DSLR Table top lighting kit tripod and the materials I will use to create my sets and the figures I will use in my sets and shoots
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9			DSLR Table top lighting kit tripod and the materials I will use to create my sets and the figures I will use in my sets and shoots
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