Concept panel

25/02/2014

Blog entry 54:

On Monday the first concept panel of the semester commenced, during the presentations I took down some notes that will help me to make my presentation successful during the next concept panel:

• All theories and inspirational imagery must be Harvard referenced for presentation

• Say why that you like something in context of it being inspirational to your own work

• Historical and theoretical basis for concept - what in theory backs up what you intend to do 

• Outline the main problems that you are trying to solve, do you have a question that you are trying to answer

• Contact people/ practitioners who may be able to help you - networking 

• Progress you are making - outline what exactly it is that you have done 

• Main influence and why

• Who will use it - situ

• Target audience - who will see it and who do you want to see it 

• A subject that you know a lot about that you're interested in - have a good knowledge of the field you are working in

• Are those issues relevant today? Are the issues you are addressing relevant to the audience you will be addressing

• History and theory of your methods - me painting

• Objectives - outline what you are going to achieve and how you are going to achieve them

• Research question

• Spin off possibilities - What else could come out of what you are doing - alternative uses - get the most out of your product

• How do you test what your concept is trying to achieve? Real life tests with real audiences and items such as questionares

• Do a lot of experimentation - ensure you exhaust every possibility and use experimentation to understand your media and methods better

• How project relates to dissertation - ensure there is a direct link

• Rationale behind project - what underpins it?

What I found interesting about listening to others present, was that their presentations did not show nearly enough of the experimentation that they had done to get to that stage, from my point of view of being new to the course, I would have found it more inspirational to see more of the steps and experiments and theories that had helped each person get to the stages they were at. 

For me it is very important to research every aspect of a project, and document this in a very methodical way, and feel that creating this presentation will be done in the same manner.