Dissertation Presentation Notes

Dissertation Presentation (presentation will be up on Moodle at some point.)
• To be submitted end of January, week 15.
• 90% will be the 5000-6000 word essay or critical commentary
• 10% will be seminar presentation.
• Think about the link to Negotiated Project.
• Mode and Topic.
• Research and References
• Time management (production plan)

Action points:
1. Devise a coherent argument underpinned by appropriate use of scholarly research from primary and secondary sources.
2. Communicate an understanding of the theoretical and philosophical aspects in your chosen area.
3. Demonstrate knowledge and understanding of the key aspects of a defined area of your subject.
4. Reflect an effectiveness of research and its impact on your development.
5. Construct a well presented and referenced dissertation with good English.

Mode 1 – Illustrated Essay
• Should be a sustainable topic closely related to your Negotiated Project.
• Presented in an academic form.
• Structured in a recognisable way;
o Contents page
o Chapters (Should include 3 – 4 chapters)
o Bibliography
o Appendix (Everything you have gathered whilst researching and referenced, for example questionnaires, interviews, surveys, telephone conversation transcripts/evidence.)

Mode 2 – Reflective Critical Commentary
• Should reflect an intellectual journey tailored to suit your practice.
• Develop and reflect your visual and intellectual practice.
• Organised and critically structured interpretation.
• Should be a linear creative journey.
• Consider research areas and content analysis.
• Make sure you state your reasoning for the routes and decisions you make.
• Evaluation of your own work – concepts/ideas/visual language.
• Reach a conclusion.
• Keep in mind layout and it’s potential as a creative and designed document.

George kept saying how important it was not to forget to put your research and references into this as a lot of students didn’t last year.
There’s no word limit but should be the same amount of time spent as the Essay.

Dos and Don’ts
Mode 1
• Must relate to Negotiated project.
• Must include Primary and Secondary research.
• Be academic in structure but should convey some personality and your area of interest.
• Investigation, Discussion, Proposition and Argument.
• Plan your essay, consider its structure and make sure it’s clear and coherent.
• Should be a clear thread of investigation.
• Must include a bibliography (Harvard referencing)
• Must be informative.
• Should be intended for yourself as well as others – make it interesting and engaging.
• Check grammar and spelling.
• Make sure you leave enough time to get it bound appropriately.
• Don’t waffle – be concise.
• Don’t plagiarise – reference all material used from other sources.

Mode 2
• Show your design process and journey.
• Should be a marriage of research and its effect on your own work and your thinking.
• Should be an evaluation/analysis of your work and research
• Include a bibliography.
• Make sure the overall design matches your area of practice.
• Be creative.
• Check grammar and spelling.
• Don’t fail to include research and its connections.
• Use your time wisely.
• Don’t rush the design; show creative design skills.
• Deadlines – think ahead if using things like Blurb to put journal together.

Advice and Help
- Help at the Academic Skills Centre on Campus North. Tutorials on academic writing for example.
- Ask for guidance.

Seminar
- Should be used to structure presentation
- Include introduction, chapters, people to interview etc.
- Highlight line of discussion/interrogation.
- Show clearly proposition and research area.
- May include written piece also.

Black and white line drawings

Some images from a story idea I'm thinking of developing, drawn with a 1 point fine liner. I used a black overlay in Photoshop to make some darker areas stand out more.

Childhood

Taken from one of my family photo albums

Thought this was brilliant

Best thing I've watched in a long time!!!

Granny O'Grimm's Sleeping Beauty from Darragh O'Connell on Vimeo.

Another great blog

http://picturebookreport.com/

(Meg Hunt)

blog

A great blog to inspire over the summer:
http://ajourneyroundmyskull.blogspot.com/



Kt.
:)

Looking for inspiration further afield

Looking further afield into other forms of Illustration, Fine Art and Graphics may be just the motivational inspiration that you need
Here's my pick for the week:  Olaf Hajek

http://www.olafhajek.de/gallery/gallery.php?gazimage=426&gazpart=view&gazimage=422

Quentin Blake

Hey guys, this is a the link for a short n sweet video of Quentin Blake talkin while drawing some characters, for anyone who's a Blake fan think they'd like it :)

http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/video/2010/may/29/guardian-hay-festival-quentin-blake

useful website

http://blaine.org/sevenimpossiblethings/

This website has lots of picture book illustrators' interview e.g. Oliver Jeffers, Emily Gravett, Mini Gray.... They talked about where the ideas came from, what they will do when they planning a picture book or how they publish their first book.....

I'm sad at being indoors today. But then this happened....

Any thoughts?

New Piece

This is the new piece from the 'Halo' story im working on, any coments would be wickedawesomeclass!

a whale for Lou

But then the whale said....

I have to emphasise that this is a photo! So I've lost alot of colour detail unfortunately. Any thoughts would be great.

Lou xx

Texture Sun

Did this approximately A3, drawn with a 0.2 mm fine line pen. Would love to know what people think :-)

Drawing, drawing, drawing!

Hey guys, just some kind of stream of consciousness drawings I'm doing of my own little world to put together in a book format for fmp. The first ones are how i initially started quite structured and regimented, and the last two are more free flowing and floaty- just wondering what people think looks best and any ideas and input? Cheers, Hannah.