Project Proposal

Guidance and
Template
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Diploma in Creative
Media Production
and Technology
Diploma in Creative Media
Production and Technology
In producing the project proposal, and in
preparing for the project realisation, you
should familiarise yourself with Unit 8 of
the qualification.
In particular, you should understand the
assessment and grading criteria which will be
used to determine standards of achievement.
Unit 8 requires you to produce a project
proposal of about 350 words, excluding the
project action plan and bibliography. Project
proposals should not be so succinct that they
do not address the requirements listed
below, nor should they be excessively long
and unfocused.
Your project proposal should be sufficiently
challenging to ensure you have the
best possible chance of meeting the
grading criteria.
Your project proposal should include:
- Centre name and number
- Candidate name and number
- Project proposal title and date
- Main area of activity / pathway, e.g. film, TV,
games design etc.
The project proposal must be word processed and
presented under the headings listed here:
Section 1 - Rationale
(Approximately 100 words)
This section provides you with an opportunity to reflect
on, review and summarise your progress and
achievements through the first 7 units of the
qualification, and the knowledge, skills and
understanding you have acquired: What you know now,
and what it means to you, compared with what you
knew and could do before you started the
course and how this has influenced your choice of
pathway and your project proposal.
Section 2 – Project concept
(Approximately 200 words)
This section provides an opportunity for you to
clearly explain the concept and aims of your
project, the research and ideas that will
support its development, what you anticipate
producing, the levels and types of resources
that you will need and an indication of the
form in which you will complete and
present your project realisation within
the allocated timescale.
Section 3 - Evaluation
(Approximately 50 words)
This section provides an opportunity for you to explain
how you will reflect on and evaluate your work, as both
an ongoing activity and at the conclusion of the
project.
You should describe how you intend to record
your decision-making and how you will document
changes to your ideas as the project
progresses. The evaluation section should
reference your stated aims and
be reflective and analytical rather than a
description of actions completed.
When working in collaboration with others, you
should comment on how this may impact
either positively or adversely and outline the
steps you can take to minimise disruption to your own
progress.
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Diploma in Creative Media
Production and Technology
Project proposal template

Additional requirements, not included in the

350 word limit of the proposal:

Project action plan and timetable:

This section provides you with an opportunity to

outline your planning and organisation over a
period of weeks and the activities you will need to
carry out in order to successfully complete
your project in the agreed time frame. The more
time and thought you give to
planning your project, the more successful it is
likely to be.

It is important that you consider how you will

balance ambition, time and realism in the
realisation of the project. You should also include
what you are going to do, how you will do it
and by when. Remember to include: time spent
sourcing materials and other resources to conduct
research, feedback from tutors and peers, and
when you will carry out independent study.

Bibliography (Harvard Format):

This section provides an opportunity to record the

initial research sources, both primary and
secondary, that you intend to use.

Your sources of research should be as wide

as possible and could include libraries,
galleries, books, magazines, films, computer games,
websites, blogs, social media, radio
programmes, archive material etc. Where
appropriate, you should use the Harvard
system of referencing. The bibliography should be
continuously updated as the
project progresses.

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 Diploma in Creative Media
Production and Technology
Unit 8 Project Proposal
Candidate Name
Evelyn Mead

Candidate Number
20168984

Pathway
Graphic and Digital Design

Project Title
Childrens book design

Section 1: Rationale
(approx. 100 words)
The brief is asking me to come up with my own project idea and plan and execute it. I feel
somewhat confident in executing this project as I have the abilities to do it but it’s a lot of
work to do in the time. This project will call upon my illustration abilities, composition skills
and time management as well as my story telling and writing abilities. This project provides
me with learning opportunities such as improving my illustration work, practice storytelling,
learning how to plan and execute a brief on my own, pushing me to work more independently
and providing me with portfolio work.

Section 2: Project
Concept
My overall idea for this project is to create a children's book for a target audience of 4–6-year-
(approx. 200 words) olds with interactive elements (these could be colouring in, stickers, pop-ups, puppets and
mazes). I am planning to write a story, sketch out a concept, create illustrations, design and
book cover, decide on the typography for the cover and pages, create the book in InDesign,
make the interactive elements and print the book. To develop this project further I will
research different illustrators, illustration techniques such as collage, InDesign tutorials and
general design for my secondary research. For my primary research I will go to libraries and
take photos of the illustrations on their children's books and also make a survey to be
answered by children about my book as well as peer discussions. The resources I will need
access to are adobe Photoshop, InDesign and Illustrator, I will need coloured and patterned
card and paper so that I can make collages. I aim to finish the book by the week before the last
half term so I have enough time to get it printed and so I can get it reviewed by peers before I
send it off.

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Production and Technology
Unit 8 Project Proposal
Section 3: Evaluation
(approx. 50 words)
I am going to reflect during my project by documenting my thought process during each week
and by having peer discussions. I am going to effectively use my annotations by documenting
my decision making, screenshotting progress, be critical of my work and recognize the
strengths and using it as a time to reflect and analyse my progress. I will then write a project
evaluation when I have finished my project allowing me to learn from the project so I can take
that knowledge forward into next year.

Proposed Research
Sources and
Lauren Child:
Bibliography Video-
(Harvard Format) https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=K4ODZ3TZZq8&cbrd=1
Illustration-
Wheatley, K. (2013). Lauren Child. [online] Pinterest. Available at:
https://www.pinterest.co.uk/thevoiceofboo/lauren-child/ [Accessed 17 Mar. 2023].

Collage artist:
Coyle, M. (n.d.). Cherries (5″x7″). [online] Megan Coyle: Artist & Illustrator. Available at:
https://megancoyle.com/product/cherries-5x7/ [Accessed 21 Mar. 2023].

Other illustrators work:

Sweet, M. (2021). Unbound. [online] Melissa Sweet. Available at:
https://www.melissasweet.net/unbound [Accessed 21 Mar. 2023].

Martin, E.W. (2020). B O O K S. [online] E M I L Y W. M A R T I N. Available at:

https://www.emilywinfieldmartin.com/b-o-o-k-s.html.

Collage Collage. (n.d.). The Wayside by Julie Morstad. [online] Available at:
https://shop.collagecollage.ca/products/the-wayside-julie-morstad [Accessed 21 Mar. 2023].

Reading ages:
Reading Chest. (n.d.). Reading Chest - Learning through your letterbox! [online] Available at:
https://www.readingchest.co.uk/book-bands#:~:text=Level%208. [Accessed 21 Mar. 2023].

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Project Action Plan and Timetable

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 Date Week Activity / What you are intending to do - Resources / What you will need to do it -
Week
Beginning including independent study including access to workshops
-finalize the story
-document ideas

Date Week -create a Activity

plan for the layout
/ What youofare
the pages
Beginning and the illustrations of each
intending to do - one. -coloured card and paper
-annotate
including independent
study -Adobe InDesign and photoshop
-create sketches for the main characters
1 17/4/23 -annotate
-coloured pens
-create illustrations for the main
characters -watercolour
-annotate ideas

-peer review of character designs and

layout ideas

-finalize illustrations
-annotate why you made changes and
link to peer review -coloured card and paper

-start creating first page illustrations -Adobe InDesign and photoshop

2 24/4/23 -annotate
-coloured pens
-Make other collages
-watercolour
-layout on InDesign
-annotate

-coloured card and paper

-create illustrations for 4 pages -Adobe InDesign and photoshop
-annotate
3 1/5/23
-put them onto InDesign
-coloured pens
-annotate
-watercolour

-coloured card and paper

-create illustrations for 4 pages -Adobe InDesign and photoshop
-annotate
4 8/5/23
-put them onto InDesign
-coloured pens
-annotate
-watercolour

-coloured card and paper

-create illustrations for 4 pages
-annotate -Adobe InDesign and photoshop

5 15/5/23 -put them onto InDesign -coloured pens

-annotate
-watercolour
-create front page

-create illustrations for 4 pages

-annotate -coloured card and paper

-create back page -Adobe InDesign and photoshop

6 22/5/23 Page 6
-put them onto InDesign -coloured pens