Evaluation, Focus, Develop.

Evaluation

• What is the problem?

To convey information about student life to perspective students or freshers.

• What subject/area of study are you focussing on?

Student life - alcohol, finance, accommodation, international students etc.

• To what depth are you investigating this area/subject? Is this sufficient?

I have already research into statistics quite in depth, but I will probably look into things further when putting my pieces together.

• What is the form and amount of research to date?

Statistics, words, images and facts.

• What visual material do you have to work with?

Primary and secondary photo's and found infographics and posters.

• Is there an appropriate amount of work for the time you have to develop it?

I think what I have will be sufficient but I could look further into zines.

• What is your timescale? When is the deadline?

2 weeks, 6th Feb.

• What is achievable in the time available?

A lot is achievable, it just depends whether other projects take up a lot of time during this period.

• What methods are you using to evaluate the progress of your ideas? 

Talking to peers and listening to their ideas, also crits.

Focus

• What are you identifying as areas worth developing further?

Research into zines.

• What are you trying to communicate.

A way to put across important pieces of information to do with student life?

• What audience have you identified?

Prospective students, freshers.

• Who are they?

Young people moving away from home for the first time and diving into a new experience.

• What problems have you identified?

Categorising and condensing the information.

• How do you intend to solve these?

Go through research and identify similarities and differences.

• What is your intention?

To give information in a aesthetically pleasing way to students.

Development

• Have you moved on from your initial starting point?

Yes I firstly wanted to create a poster.

• What methods are you using to document this development?

My blog and design sheets.

How To... Self Evaluation.

Categorise your research using the terms primary, secondary, quantitative and qualitative.

What methods of research did you find useful and why?

I found all the research beneficial, especially the factual pieces. I also liked receiving the feedback from the primary forms as it was satisfying getting the information that you'd asked for or sought out.

How did these inform your response to your problem?

When we got our feedback from the questionnaire I feel that it pushed on our project the most as it backed up our idea that what we were creating would be good for our target audience.

What methods did you encounter as problematic?

Something that was problematic was finding out how long chillies take to grow, as a lot of the information we found on the internet was quite contrasting.

How did you overcome this?

To overcome this I sent emails to different people who had a lot of knowledge in the area. I was really happy when I got two responses.

What research could you have carried out that would have proved more useful?

If I could have done further research it would have been looking further into different ways of growing chillies.

How To... Interim Crit.

Today we had a talk with Amber and Jo about the progress of our project and now it has changed direction quite a bit. It was said that maybe even with the money saving prospect it could still be hard to convince students to want to grow their own vegetables, so this is a point we will need to rethink. It was suggested that we could add some sex appeal or something similar that will attract the younger market more. Chillies were also brought up and I think this is a great idea and after thinking about it further we found lots of avenues it could go down. For example, chilli recipes, drinks and drinking games.