notes from unit Study Guide

Working method: How to develop your ideas

1. Primary Research: Jot down ideas and find relevant artists and artwork. Read, observe, take notes, take photos, brainstorm, and make preliminary sketches. Record your initial ideas and thoughts in your visual diary.

2. Applied Research: Make detailed sketches, make maquettes (small scale models), sample materials, take
measurements, experiment, explore and visually investigate your ideas through materials and processes.  Document the outcomes in your visual diary.

3. Idea Development: Based on steps 1 and 2, re-assess your ideas. Use your visual diary to note possible variations to form, size, or materials or other ways to enhance the work. If necessary repeat either of the first
two steps again.

4. Resolution: Construct the work and document it. Your final resolve for the project could be a starting point to be developed further at a later time.


Documentation of your work



Context – How does the environment in which you place your work effect its meaning? For example
an object will read differently when placed on sand than on a concrete floor. If what you produce
does not need to be contextualised (i.e. it requires a white space) choose/create an environment free of
visual interference.

Format – choose a medium appropriate for the documentation of your work (e.g. video, slide,
photographs, digital media, etc.). Consider various possibilities, as your first choice of media may not
necessarily be the most effective. For example video as the immediate choice for documenting a
performance may not necessarily be as effective as a series of still photographs.

Editing - your documentation should clearly describe your work. Think about the editing process and
do not submit all your documentation; if two images give the same information about the work then
only include one.