Project Proposal Guide

**Extended Diploma in Creative**
Media Production

& Technology

Project
proposal template

In producing the project proposal, and in preparing for
the project realisation you should familiarise yourself with Units 13
and 14 of the qualification.

In particular, you should understand the assessment and
grading criteria which will be used to determine standards of achievement.

Units 13 and 14 require you to produce a project proposal
of about 500 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 150 words)*

This section provides you with an opportunity to reflect
on, review and summarise your progress and achievements through the first 12
units of the qualification.

You should outline 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 discipline or disciplines and your project
proposal.

It also provides an opportunity for you to explain your reasons
for choosing a particular discipline or disciplines and to outline both your
immediate and longer-term aspirations.

Section 2 – Project concept
*(Approximately 200 words)*

This section provides an
opportunity for you to clearly explain the concept and aims of your project,
production or performance and 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 final realisation within the allocated timescale.

This might include an
indication of when and how you will use studios, equipment and other resources,
how you will make use of tutorial and peer feedback and where you will
incorporate independent study.

**Section 3 - Evaluation**
*(Approximately 150 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 your project.

You should describe how you
intend to record your decision-making and how you will document changes to your
ideas as your work progresses.

The evaluation should be
referenced to 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
negatively and steps you can take to minimise disruption in your own progress.

**Additional requirements, not**
included in the 500-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, seek feedback from
tutors and peers, and identify 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.

Creative
Media Production & Technology
Unit 13/14 Project Proposal

 Name
 Number
  **Section 2: Project**
  **Section 3: Evaluation (approx.**
  **Proposed Research Sources and Bibliography (Harvard**