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Assignment 2: (75%)
A Digital Narrative (three part assignment)

Assessment Rationale
Part 1: Concept Proposal
Part 2: Essay: Personal, Aesthetic and Technical Development
Part 3: A Short Digital Narrative
This assessment is a portfolio of work you have assembled through the module, edited and improved for submission.
You submit the portfolio at the end of the module.

Part 1 and Part 2 are done continuously during the module, shared with the tutors during classes - then included in the final portfolio and assessed formally at that point. You will have clear feedback from tutors and peers in order to improve the project proposal and advice on what to select from your experience to write up for Part 2. Part 2 is generated from your own procedures for documenting your work. Instead of handing in an un-edited sketch or note book you will write up three carefully selected “decisive moments” - this could include a short analysis of your approach to a workshop activity, a particular insightful discovery you have or a ingenius way of solving a technical problem.

Please note the timing of assessments (details below). We ask you to do the assessment in this fashion for several reasons: it should help you to submit a clearer portfolio of work and, crucially, it allows an element of continuous revision by you of your work in the light of feedback from tutors and peers.

Part 1: Concept Proposal:
Briefing date: Week 1: verbally present in Week 7: handed in Week 14.
Length: 10mins (500 words)
Due date: Present in Week 7
Hand in: Written version in Week 14 in portfolio

These are the criteria that you will be assessed upon:
• A well composed outline of your creative objectives (2-4 paragraphs);
• A well organised and creative storyboard / shooting script (4-5 pages or equivalent: approx: 1 minute per page);
• A clear statement of digital form (DVD, CD-ROM, website etc);
• Presence of sample content  indicative of the intended style (length dependent on chosen media);

Part 2: Essay: Personal, Aesthetic and Technical Development
Briefing date: Week 1
Length: 1000 words
Due date: Write continuously. Submit Week 14

Criteria and how to complete this part of the assignment:
• Clearly document and expand, in writing, on three decisive, important moments drawn from your own process. These must indicate how you approached the development of your idea.
• Draw from your own personal approach to self-reflective practice. This entails always documenting your own working methods: eg. systematically keep a decision diary, blog, ‘day’ book, sketch book, memos, envelope doodles or notes.
• Evidence of engagement with self-development: you could choose to write up workshop activities that engaged you. Write up THREE examples systematically and clearly.

Part 3: A Short Experimental Digital Narrative
Briefing date: Week 1;
Presented to group: Week 13 and 14;
Handed in: Week 14
Weighting: 25%
Time spent on assessment 2: 140 hrs included tutored and independent work.

These are the criteria that you will be assessed upon:
• Show a combination sound, vision and other media to achieve original results
• Exhibit a range of methods to assist in solving creative problems
• Demonstrate technical competence
• Show an awareness of audience processes

How to complete this assessment:
Play with narrative in a time-based media using After Effects (or other agreed software of your choice) as your tool. Consider your audience and exhibition mode. Publish your work in one of these suggested forms:
(i) digital video (DVD)
(ii) A sound work (CD)
(iii) A CD-ROM
(iv) A Visual Online Narrative