Artefact: Shoe Story!

Year 10 Crammers,

Before I see you on Tuesday I can now finally give you some more information about the unit, and refresh your memories of what we talked about in week 1!

So, last week we looked at the history of shoe making in the Norwich area, in order for you guys to be able to understand how an artefact (in this case shoes) was made.  You also made paper shoes inspired by the work of local artist Lianne Maynard, whose delicate paper shoes tell their own 'story'.  This week, you will be researching contemporary fashion shoe designers, such as Vivienne Westwood, Manolo Blahnik, Jimmy Choo or major fashion brands such as Adidas (there are already some links to shoe designers on right).  Are you sensing a theme yet?

Following some hard work from Mrs Hill, I can finally reveal that this week you will be allocated a brief to design a shoe based on a range of local businesses who have kindly agreed to work with CRAM students.  I'll tell you more when I see you on Tuesday, in the mean time, keep up the blogging! Check out Jacob's, Laura's and Cathy's blogs on the History of Shoes in Norwich, good work folks!

Mrs Pinn

Year 11 CMD

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Year 10 Creative and Media Dip students (aka The Crammers)

Please post your blog's URL address on the welcome post asap.

Check out Beth's blog, she's already uploaded a photo of her felt ball and included an 'artefact' post and a 'campaign post'.

Check out Sam Woodrow's blog as he has already done the homework for me.....now that is fast work.

Happy blogging...

ps Next time I will show you how to label your work - it is crucial as your posts must be organised so that it is clear which posts relate to the different units you will cover in Year 10.

WHS Creative and Media Diploma Blog

Welcome to THE FLY!

Unit 7: Project Report

Principal Learning unit
Level 2
Guided Learning Hours: 60
Externally assessed
(External assessment of this unit will take a maximum of three hours)

About this unit: You may have thought your last piece of work was brilliant – but what did your audience think? In the creative and media areas you should be able to look at your own work as others see it and make an informed judgment about the success of what you have done.This is how you learn what works and what doesn’t, and where you need to improve skills or perhaps develop new ones. This process is called evaluation and in the creative and media industries this sort of evaluation is usually produced in the form of a project report. Sometimes the evaluation will be just for yourself, but if you have been working for a client you need to know if your work has ‘done the job’ and check if it was done in the way the client expected. For this unit you will produce a report on one of the projects that you have completed in one of the other units, working to a set paper and under exam conditions. Before writing your report you will learn how to get feedback on your work and then how to use that feedback to help you develop realistic and useful evaluations.

In this unit you will bring together two or more of the disciplines as

defined in Annexe F of this document.

Learning outcomes

On completion of this unit a learner should:

1 Be able to gather information about and responses to own work

2 Be able to evaluate own work

3 Be able to present an evaluation of own work in a project report.

Unit 3: Artefact

Principal Learning unit
Level 2
Guided Learning Hours: 60
Internally assessed

About this unit:  People make things for all sorts of reasons. It might be to express an idea or as an act of religious faith. It might be because the objects will be useful or it might simply be because looking at them will give people pleasure. A set or costume designer will make things that will be part of a drama or dance performance,and will design them so that they help to communicate the ideas carried by the performance. A potter will make things that are both useful and good to look at or handle. All these things can be described as ‘artefacts’ – made objects that exist in both time and space – and their creation will be influenced by many different factors and circumstances.
 

In this unit you will explore the nature of artefacts, looking at how and why they were created. You will then plan and produce an artefact of your own. In this unit you must bring together two or more of the disciplines as defined in Annexe F of this document.

Learning outcomes

On completion of this unit a learner should:

1 Understand the process of creating artefacts
2 Be able to plan the creation of an artefact
3 Be able to create an artefact
4 Be able to monitor own creative activity.