Ual l3y2 project1 characteristics brief

UAL Level 3 Extended Diploma in Creative Media Hopwood Hall College Arts and Performing Arts

Characteristics of a Mad World Unit Covered: Unit 9 - Characteristics and Contexts in Media and Comunication Learning Outcome 1: 1.1, 1.2 and 2: 2.1, 2.2 and 3: 3.1, 3.2 Project Start: 04/09/17 Project Deadline: 20/10/17 Project Aim and Scenario This project will allow you to develop a focused and in-depth understanding of the characteristics required to work within the games development industry, primarily how to interpret a live brief.

By the end of this project you will develop a realistic understanding how you would contribute towards developing a project within the games industry, critically assessing your own strengths and abilities and the outcomes that you produce.

Project Brief: An up and coming games company is developing a game that has an post-apocalyptic theme.

As a member of the team you have been tasked with contributing design ideas for the game to establish how the world ended and what humanity needs to do to survive.

There are many potential real and imagined causes of a post-apocalyptic world. Currently, the world is struggling with environmental issues and global warming through extreme weather conditions such as earthquakes, hurricanes and flooding. There are political tensions and unrest in the Middle East, Africa and South East Asia that threatens peace and stability. A postapocolyptic world could also emerge as the result of a zombie out break, or virus that changes the nature of humanity.

You will be required to submit research, development logs, a final piece and an evaluation of your project process including peer feedback. Your final piece can be in the form of: • • • •

Character concept Enironment concept 3D Model GDD or Game Mechanics

UAL Level 3 Extended Diploma in Creative Media Hopwood Hall College Arts and Performing Arts

Task 1 - Interpreting the Brief and Research Prior to designing your idea you must fully research potential post-apocalytpic environments and their causes. You will need to look at a range of resources from games, films, books, as well as real-life current and historical examples of potential world ending scenarios via news stories, or documentaries.

You will need to: - Define what post-apocalytpic means - As a minimum you will need to research 3 post-apocalytpic video games, 3 films, 3 real-world events and 1 artist that explores this theme in their work - Develop 3 final post-apocalytpic scenarios for the game to discuss with the group for peer feedback - Final proposal of post-apocalytpic scenario Task 2 - Production & Problem Solving Having chosen a final post-apocalytpic idea to develop further you will need to pick an area to develop your design for: For instance if you decided to design a body suit, vehicle or related building/structure you would need to fully justify specific elements covering how they would aid and contribute to survivability of your chosen scenario.

You will need to: - Research 3 relevant designs to help develop your idea e.g if developing a body suit you would look at NASA space suits as well as designs within Science Fiction - Produce thumbnail drawings of design ideas with annotations - Gather peer feedback on proposed design idea - Produce your final design - Keep a production log of how you have developed your final design and how you have explored creative solutions Task 3 - Evaluation Produce a critical evaluation of the project that assesses how well your research prepared you to meet the characteristics of the brief and how your design meets the specification. You will also need to reflect on your learning and personal development.

EVIDENCE REQUIRED FOR ASSESSMENT • All written work to be presented in a Word Document containing your post-apocolytpic and design research examples, scans of your drawings, development log and evaluation. This needs to be named appropriately e.g A.Stark_Apocolyptic • All practical work needs to be presented in the most appropriate format for the software you are working in e.g 4K JPEG

UAL Level 3 Extended Diploma in Creative Media Hopwood Hall College Arts and Performing Arts

Assignment Week

Assignment Tasks

WEEK 1 04/09/19

Introduction to brief and post-apocolyptic scenarios

WEEK 2 11/09/17

Post-apocolyptic research and proposal

WEEK 3 18/09/17

Design research, ideas and proposal

WEEK 4 25/09/17

Practical production work and development log

WEEK 5 02/10/17

Practical production work and development log

WEEK 6 09/10/17

Practical production work and development log

WEEK 7 16/10/17

Practical production work, development log and evaluation

UAL Level 3 Extended Diploma in Creative Media Hopwood Hall College Arts and Performing Arts

This assignment covers the following grading criteria: Unit Unit 9 Investigating visual production and technology

Learning Outcomes 1 Understand the characteristics and context for a chosen media and communication activity.

Assessment Criteria 1.1 Analyse the characteristics and context for a chosen media and communication activity.

1.2 Interpret research activity to develop ideas for creative production.

2 Be able to use knowledge of the characteristics and context of a media and communication activity.

3 Be able to use evaluation in support of creative media production.

2.1 Use knowledge of characteristics and context to plan and develop creative solutions for a chosen media and communication activity.

2.2 Apply practical skills, knowledge and understanding of characteristics and contexts to produce creative solutions for a chosen media and communication activity.

3.1 Critically evaluate creative solutions against identified characteristics and context for a chosen media and communication activity.

3.2 Critically reflect on learning to inform personal development.