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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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
Simone Kocjan

Candidate Number
20167846

Pathway
Graphic and Digital Design

Project Title
Car Magazine

Section 1: Rationale
(approx. 100 words)
For this project, I had to create my own design. I feel confident that I can do this project for
two reasons: first, thanks to the course I have very good knowledge of using other
programmes (Photoshop and Illustrator), in the sense that if I need to change a detail of an
image or make it creative by adding an effect to improve it, I have the skills to do it; second, I
have some creativity in creating layouts, since I used PowerPoint and Publisher very often to
create presentations and brochures for school assignments, so thanks to this I will have many
advantages in doing this project without having difficulties.
I think that this project will allow me to improve my graphic design skills, and my creativity
in the layout of a document such as a magazine, and also to learn how to use the Adobe
InDesign programme and to learn new functions to make my design professionally if I were to
work for a company that requires magazine layout or website design projects.

Section 2: Project
Concept
For this project, I plan to create a magazine for the most famous Italian car that exists, the
(approx. 200 words) FIAT 500.
The idea is to create a magazine that talks about the history of the car, with the previous
models, the various changes over the years and maybe adding some curiosities. Trying not to
make it boring but to make it interesting also from a cultural point of view, which is suitable
for all ages, professionals and even those who do not know about cars.

For this project, I will be helped with both primary and secondary research, as I will have to
take inspiration from other magazines to see how the pages are arranged (image and text) and
to see what kind of style they have and whether to choose whether to make vintage or modern
the magazine. But mostly how to set up the pages and what content to put on each page, so I
have to do a lot of research to know what to put.
And in the end, I was thinking of adding at the end of the magazine a page to cut out where
you can create a 3D model of a FIAT 500 but I'm not sure yet.

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Unit 8 Project Proposal
Section 3: Evaluation
(approx. 50 words)
To show my progress or the changes I make to improve the work, I will write a short text
every week to see the progress I make over time.
I could also use focus groups or surveys to accumulate other ideas from other people to
improve the project.

Proposed Research
Sources and Blueprints. (n.d.). Fiat 500 Blueprint - Download free blueprint for 3D modeling.
Bibliography
(Harvard Format) [online] Available at: https://drawingdatabase.com/fiat-500/ [Accessed 29 Mar. 2023].

Bonnie, A. (11AD). Fiat 500 hybrid (2020) review: the light touch. [online] CAR
Magazine. Available at: https://www.carmagazine.co.uk/car-reviews/fiat/500-
hatchback/ [Accessed 29 Mar. 2023].

commons.wikimedia.org. (n.d.). File:Fiat Barbie 500.jpg - Wikipedia. [online]

Available at: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Fiat_Barbie_500.jpg [Accessed 29
Mar. 2023].

Custard, B. (2021). Fiat 500: old vs new. [online] Carbuyer. Available at:

https://www.carbuyer.co.uk/fiat/500/303013/fiat-500-old-vs-new [Accessed 29 Mar.
2023].

Johnny (2022). 2023 Fiat 500e 3+1 (118 hp) - FINALLY coming to the US! [online]
www.youtube.com. Available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kCrxanAV024
[Accessed 29 Mar. 2023].

Matt's Car chat (2022). Evo Car magazine - The history of EVO in the year of its
300th issue. [online] www.youtube.com. Available at:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uTiezLveuHY [Accessed 29 Mar. 2023].

Mbaduli, S. (2023). Two New Fiat Models Will Debut In 2023. [online] CAR
Magazine. Available at: https://www.carmag.co.za/uncategorized/two-new-fiat-
models-will-debut-in-2023/ [Accessed 29 Mar. 2023].

Petrány, M. (2020). New Fiat 500 goes all-electric. [online] Hagerty Media. Available
at: https://www.hagerty.com/media/news/new-fiat-500-goes-all-electric/ [Accessed 29
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

Try to find primary sources such as a

I'll start looking for some magazines to
bookstore or marketplace and find
see how they are made and to start
1 17/4/23 secondary sources such as websites
getting an idea of how to create my
and companies.
magazine

I will go to see the works that some

To do more research, I will search on
artists have done in their various
the internet how artists create
2 24/4/23 projects, also looking at how they
magazines to see also how a magazine
structured and decorated them.
is composed.

I will start creating some sketches for

Thanks to the research of the first and
the magazine cover trying to create one
second, I will be able to start
different from the other. I tried to
sketching, I could also search on
3 1/5/23 create them with various methods to
graphic sites like Behance to see how
make them vintage and modern and
other designers have created.
I’ll also start sketching how to layout
the pages.

I will need many images possibly

I will start looking for images of high
quality to start inserting them into the
4 8/5/23 pages to get an idea of how and how
many images I will need to layout the
pages of the magazine.
with many details and excellent
quality, I would find many if I found
websites that make reviews on cars or
from a presentation where they show
the model in 360 degrees.

Same for the text, I will use if it will

In addition to having inserted the
be possible the same source from
images, it is also time to insert the text
where I will take the images as they
to create the page in a complete way
will be linked as content, to simplify
and this allows me to see how the
5 15/5/23 the search time. While for the printing
pages are and start printing the
of the magazine I will do various tests
magazine to see if I had to make
and then print the result by a
changes or add more text or images
company on the internet.
depending on who will need it most.

Having already some sketches I will

try to create one with simple images,
I'll add the cover and the rest that's
also trying to use Photoshop to edit
needed to finish the magazine so I’ll
6 22/5/23 images and also create a back cover
send the magazine to a company to
not too complicated simple and
have it printed, if everything is done.
minimalist.

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