The EPQ begins!

Activities completed today:

• Draw up basic EPQ plan of independent deadlines and time scales of the project; fit around original milestones and holidays

• Create a timetable

• Set up personal blog to record my progress and work out how to use it

Total times spent: 4 hours

EPQ overview - and how I set about to do it

The EPQ

For those who do not know, the EPQ is an extended project qualification, which amounts to an AS level, and my college is one of many that is running it. You pick what you want to do for it in order to help you gain a qualification which you can later use. I am currently in my second year of 6th form, and I have chosen to make a music video (Unit 4: Artifact) for my project because I am aiming to get a career in the media or film industry, after University.

Procedure

I sent in an application form, and then a Project Proposal Form (PPF) once it was accepted. In this I identified my artifact, specified my reasons for choosing the project, made note of resources I am to use and the timescales I have set myself.

I was then assigned to a teacher in my college and arranged only a few meet ups over the whole duration of the EPQ just to check I am reaching each 'Milestone'. I can contact them any time I need.

I want this project to demonstrate my capabilities; to show that I can produce a media text independently (in comparison to most group work at college) and to a sufficient standard.

I will be paying close attention to not dwell on areas of research I wrote about in my A2 Media coursework, as it is also based on music videos: but I chose to do this project so that I could further explore aspects I feel it did not sufficiently cover, and that I want to explore more than the coursework lets me.

On my first day of the EPQ I am drawing up a full timetable which I'll publish on this blog, outlining the time in which I have for my project, and the main deadlines. Then, I will publish a timetable for each section of the project (Research, Pre-production, Production, Post-production and Evaluation) with more detail in what I aim to complete, so that I can keep track.

I will specify when the activities have been completed, or any additional notes including problems and solutions (there will be a label attached to any blog posts where I have encountered a problem of some form).

The work I do for the activities will be posted to keep track of progress; this is my Activity Log, in Blog form.