This brief is thought-provoking and challenging across a number of key areas. It rewards evidence of curiosity, visual questioning and sustained enquiry.
The Brief focuses on 3 aspects of Visual Enquiry:
- 01 Observation
- The process of actively looking. That is: noticing, describing, analysing - trying to visually unravel, record that which you see, hear or notice.
- 02 Creative Process
- The exploration or invention of new possibilities, based on aspects of observational research.
- 03 Invention/Design
- The opportunity to solve specific problems of a practical nature, to produce work which relates directly to your environment or personal circumstances, or to demonstrate your skill in working in three dimensions across a range of media and methods.
- Visual Notebook.
In addition you must retain a visual notebook which should underpin your ideas as they develop. The notebook should be essentially visual but can contain written elements where necessary as explanation. The notebook should record your incidental ideas/ thoughts/notions which arise during the period of time working on the brief.
Criteria for Assessment.
- 01 Critical Observation
- Students should demonstrate an ability to visually record, describe, explain and analyse their subject in response to a range of source material.
- 02 Inventiveness and Curiosity in Research
- Students should demonstrate an awareness and curiosity for visual material that is of interest to them: finding, collecting and organising source material. These can be documented in any visual format.
- 03 Creative Thinking
- Students should provide evidence of a creative process in their work. Where and how has the student challenged her/himself to look at things differently? How were decisions made and why? Work should show evidence of a lively and engaged creative process.
- 04 Commitment
- Students should demonstrate an ability to sustain the development of ideas through experimentation / exploration of subject / sources in a variety of circumstances.