Additional Research - mid project

Your work should always start with research and this should be completed within the first few days of being issued with a new research task or project.

As you start to produce the practical work in conjunction with your projects you should continue to look at the work of other photographers in order to help generate ideas. If you do find some additional research that has some influence on your work you should identify it in your designs sheets. It doesn't need to be anywhere near as detailed as the research work you do at the start of the project, instead it only needs to be a columns worth of images and written work with more emphasis on the use of images (75% images - 25% written) see image below...

The example here shows the research for 3 separate artists/ photographer - a column each.

This example is a little text heavy the 3rd column with the B&W images is wholly acceptable. Things you that you should include are...

• Images you're inspired by
• Images of the equipment and the Photographer
• Screen grabs from videos showing the photographer working.
• Screen grabs of relevant data.
• Images of the camera used.
• Quotes cross referenced with the source.
• Bibliography (Website links).

I would suggest that if you add additional research as you work through your project, you save the work as a separate document using an appropriate name.

Alternatively, it could be embedded in your main practical design sheet as an when you find it, a column at a time.