Media Department 2016/2017

Learner Progress Tracker

Unit 8Extended Project in Creative Media Production

Name: Peter Hainsworth Blog Name: Peterhainsworthgames.wordpress.comCourse: UAL Diploma in Creative Media Production and Technology

Level 3 – Year 1Pathway: Games Development Group 1A

If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?

Albert Einstein

Unit 8 Developing a Creative Media Production Project

Unit Aim: - Provide students with the opportunity to use their skills, knowledge and understanding developed through the previous units to complete a creative media project. Providing the students with the opportunity to clarify their longer-term goals through the choice of an activity to explore in greater depth.

Learning Outcomes Assessment Criteria

1. Understand the requirements of a creative media production project.

1.1 Analyse the requirements of a creative media production project.

2. Be able to use research methods to inform ideas for creative media production.

2.1 Review a range of research sources to support a creative media production project.

2.2 Interpret research to develop ideas and effectively communicate to an audience.

3. Be able to use skills, knowledge and understanding in the completion of a creative media project.

3.1 Apply practical skills, knowledge and understanding to complete a creative media project within an agreed timeframe.

4. Be able to evaluate a creative media project.

4.1 Critically evaluate a creative media project against the agreed requirements and parameters.

Learner Progress TrackerWeek Number Date w/c

2 17 April

Blog Post for the week (Title)

Extended project week 2

What is your Learning Task/Assignment for the week? (What are you going to do in the week)

Criteria Working on:

I will be compiling 3 ideas for my extended project

How do you plan to achieve this? (SMART Targets)I plan to achieve this by thinking about my strongest skills and answer questions about every idea.

Problems/situations you encountered this week and how you resolved themProblem ResolutionI had a hard time coming up with ideas that I would enjoy doing.

I thought back to my strongest points earlier in the year

Learner Progress TrackerReflection on the work you have produced this weekOn reflection I think my three ideas were suited to me but I was mainly focused on one idea, and that was a GameMaker project.

Notes on Resources and Sources used in the production of this week’s post

Full Harvard Reference of Sources is Located in BLOGChecklistSpellchecked Proofread Introduction Conclusion Harvard Presentation Published

Lecturer :Blog Checked Feedback from your Lecturers, detailing further actions you need to take

(student to complete)

Learner Progress TrackerWeek Number Date w/c

3 24 April

Blog Post for the week (Title)

Extended project week 3 1.1

What is your Learning Task/Assignment for the week? (What are you going to do in the week)

Criteria Working on:

1.1

This week I will gather all the information that is required for my project. Equipment, job roles, where I fit in the industry, copyright and legal requirements, health and safety, and my target audience.

How do you plan to achieve this? (SMART Targets)I plan to do this by creating a shopping list of sorts of all the equipment I need, creating a risk assessment, researching legal and ethical forms, researching my target audience using demographic and psychometric data and creating a piktochart of where I fit in the industry.

Problems/situations you encountered this week and how you resolved themProblem ResolutionI found it hard finding my target audience demographic data.

Looking at different websites to find out information about it.

Learner Progress TrackerReflection on the work you have produced this weekThis week I produced all the work to start to build my project together, some of it was hard like the target audience data but the rest was fairly straight forward.

Notes on Resources and Sources used in the production of this week’s post

Full Harvard Reference of Sources is Located in BLOGChecklistSpellchecked Proofread Introduction Conclusion Harvard Presentation Published

Lecturer :Blog Checked Feedback from your Lecturers, detailing further actions you need to take

(student to complete)

Learner Progress TrackerWeek Number Date w/c

4 1 May

Blog Post for the week (Title)

Extended project week 4 2.1

What is your Learning Task/Assignment for the week? (What are you going to do in the week)

Criteria Working on:

2.1

This week I will be planning and undertaking my secondary research

How do you plan to achieve this? (SMART Targets)I will achieve this by getting the key items I need to research and then look up sources like games, movies, and articles to analyse.

Problems/situations you encountered this week and how you resolved themProblem ResolutionI found most of the sites I wanted to look at were blocked.

I had to look at many different sites to find information I wanted.

Learner Progress TrackerReflection on the work you have produced this weekThis week work is a good start to gathering everything I need, to start understanding my project more.

Notes on Resources and Sources used in the production of this week’s post

Full Harvard Reference of Sources is Located in BLOGChecklistSpellchecked Proofread Introduction Conclusion Harvard Presentation Published

Lecturer :Blog Checked Feedback from your Lecturers, detailing further actions you need to take

(student to complete)

Learner Progress TrackerWeek Number Date w/c

5 8 May

Blog Post for the week (Title)Extended project week 5 2.2

What is your Learning Task/Assignment for the week? (What are you going to do in the week)

Criteria Working on:

2.2

In this week I will be planning my primary research and undertaking it

How do you plan to achieve this? (SMART Targets)I plan to undertake my primary research by doing experimentation on game mechanics In GameMaker and creating a survey which I will hand out to people.

Problems/situations you encountered this week and how you resolved themProblem ResolutionA few people did not take my survey seriously.

I ignored their data for that question and wrote why.

Learner Progress TrackerReflection on the work you have produced this weekThis week’s work was very helpful to my project as it gave me much information on how to create mechanics in GameMaker and what people want in my prototype.

Notes on Resources and Sources used in the production of this week’s post

Full Harvard Reference of Sources is Located in BLOGChecklistSpellchecked Proofread Introduction Conclusion Harvard Presentation Published

Lecturer :Blog Checked Feedback from your Lecturers, detailing further actions you need to take

(student to complete)

Learner Progress TrackerWeek Number Date w/c

6 15 May

Blog Post for the week (Title)Extended project week 6

What is your Learning Task/Assignment for the week? (What are you going to do in the week)

Criteria Working on:

Creating a design document for my game

How do you plan to achieve this? (SMART Targets)I will look at other design documents for a reference and then create my own, which is suitable o my project.

Problems/situations you encountered this week and how you resolved themProblem ResolutionI had no problems this week.

Learner Progress TrackerReflection on the work you have produced this weekCreating my design document was an effective way to outline everything in my project and state what it is about.

Notes on Resources and Sources used in the production of this week’s post

Full Harvard Reference of Sources is Located in BLOGChecklistSpellchecked Proofread Introduction Conclusion Harvard Presentation Published

Lecturer :Blog Checked Feedback from your Lecturers, detailing further actions you need to take

(student to complete)

Learner Progress TrackerWeek Number Date w/c

7 5 June

Blog Post for the week (Title)

What is your Learning Task/Assignment for the week? (What are you going to do in the week)

Criteria Working on:

Project

This week I start my project in GameMaker

How do you plan to achieve this? (SMART Targets)I started the project off by creating all the basics in my game, like movement, gravity, sprites, rooms, and backgrounds.

Problems/situations you encountered this week and how you resolved themProblem ResolutionThere were no problems

Learner Progress TrackerReflection on the work you have produced this weekThis was a very productive week and a great start into my project.

Notes on Resources and Sources used in the production of this week’s post

Full Harvard Reference of Sources is Located in BLOGChecklistSpellchecked Proofread Introduction Conclusion Harvard Presentation Published

Lecturer :Blog Checked Feedback from your Lecturers, detailing further actions you need to take

(student to complete)

Learner Progress TrackerWeek Number Date w/c

8 12 June

Blog Post for the week (Title)

What is your Learning Task/Assignment for the week? (What are you going to do in the week)

Criteria Working on:

Project

This week I will be working in my project and portfolio

How do you plan to achieve this? (SMART Targets)I will be creating more details in my backgrounds, sprites and game, and adding in the double jump mechanic. I will also start to copy and paste then answer the questions in the portfolio.

Problems/situations you encountered this week and how you resolved themProblem ResolutionI lost my entire project. Importing all of the sprites object rooms etc.

into a new GameMaker save file.

Learner Progress TrackerReflection on the work you have produced this weekThis was a good week despite losing my project, I’m glad that I managed to work around and get it back.

Notes on Resources and Sources used in the production of this week’s post

Full Harvard Reference of Sources is Located in BLOGChecklistSpellchecked Proofread Introduction Conclusion Harvard Presentation Published

Lecturer :Blog Checked Feedback from your Lecturers, detailing further actions you need to take

(student to complete)

Learner Progress TrackerWeek Number Date w/c

9 19 June

Blog Post for the week (Title)

What is your Learning Task/Assignment for the week? (What are you going to do in the week)

Criteria Working on:

Project

Finishing project and portfolio.

How do you plan to achieve this? (SMART Targets)I added in the finishing touches into my project and portfolio to finalise everything for the end of the week.

Problems/situations you encountered this week and how you resolved themProblem ResolutionNo problems

Learner Progress TrackerReflection on the work you have produced this weekOn reflection over this week it has been a tough week to get everything completed and in order but I got it all done.

Notes on Resources and Sources used in the production of this week’s post

Full Harvard Reference of Sources is Located in BLOGChecklistSpellchecked Proofread Introduction Conclusion Harvard Presentation Published

Lecturer :Blog Checked Feedback from your Lecturers, detailing further actions you need to take

(student to complete)

Learner Progress TrackerWeek Number Date w/c

Blog Post for the week (Title)

What is your Learning Task/Assignment for the week? (What are you going to do in the week)

Criteria Working on:

How do you plan to achieve this? (SMART Targets)

Problems/situations you encountered this week and how you resolved themProblem Resolution

Learner Progress TrackerReflection on the work you have produced this week

Notes on Resources and Sources used in the production of this week’s post

Full Harvard Reference of Sources is Located in BLOGChecklistSpellchecked Proofread Introduction Conclusion Harvard Presentation Published

Lecturer :Blog Checked Feedback from your Lecturers, detailing further actions you need to take

(student to complete)

Learner Progress TrackerWeek Number Date w/c

Blog Post for the week (Title)

What is your Learning Task/Assignment for the week? (What are you going to do in the week)

Criteria Working on:

How do you plan to achieve this? (SMART Targets)

Problems/situations you encountered this week and how you resolved themProblem Resolution

Learner Progress TrackerReflection on the work you have produced this week

Notes on Resources and Sources used in the production of this week’s post

Full Harvard Reference of Sources is Located in BLOGChecklistSpellchecked Proofread Introduction Conclusion Harvard Presentation Published

Lecturer :Blog Checked Feedback from your Lecturers, detailing further actions you need to take

(student to complete)

CANTERBURY COLLEGE CALENDAR 2016-2017

Media Department – YEAR 1 - UAL Level 3

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20 March 1

27 March PROGRESSION WEEK Last day of term Friday 31st March

3 April College Closed Friday 14 April EASTER HOLIDAYS

College Closed Monday 17 April 10 April

17 April 2 Term starts Tuesday 18th May

24 April 3

1 May 4 Term starts Tuesday 2nd May

8 May 5

15 May 6

22 May PROGRESSION WEEK

29 May College Closed 29 May SELF DIRECTED STUDY WEEK

5 June 7

12 June 8

19 June 9 Last Day of Term Friday 23rd June 2017

26 June Summer Schools

3 July Summer Schools

10 July Possible Assessment Verification Date For Year One Final Major Project and Year Two - Friday 14th July To be Confirmed