FdA Second Year

During the summer break, we were given a project to complete for the beginning of the second year.

The Brief 

This assignment is to be completed in the summer break between years one and two of the FdA Digital Media Design.  During the summer holidays, you must take part in an event or placement, which shows an ability to take advantage of a networking opportunity.  This may be:-

- Attendance at a conference or industry event as a delegate or a volunteer

- Work experience at a design agency relevant to Digital Media Design

The following networking opportunities are available and suitable for this assignment:- 

1 

   Attend the three day OFFF Digital Media Design Festival in Barcelona (16^th – 19^th May 2012)

2   - Volunteer at Reasons to be Creative ( Formerly Flash on theBeach ) (3^rd – 5^th September 2012).  Email your interest in this opportunity to volunteer@reasonstobecreative.com as soon as possible.  There is a selection process for this; being offered a place as a volunteer is not guaranteed but offers a great chance to be at the heart of the conference, as well as attending for free.  

3   - Buy tickets to Reasons to be Creative at http://www.reasonstobecreative.com/tickets/ and attend as a delegate.  

If you are unable to take part in any of the above opportunities, then it is your responsibility to find an alternative conference of a similar scale and relevance (minimum 3 day conference specifically related to Digital Media Design) or to set up a placement at a design agency, again with a minimum of three days attendance.  Obviously if you’re lucky enough to be offered some paid work at a design agency, you can use this as the basis of this assignment too.  

Method of Assessment

What you need to produce:

You will write a report (word count guide 2000) which outlines an aspect of this networking opportunity you found useful or interesting, and you will produce an illustrated presentation to show to the group and your tutors at the start of next academic year. 

Your report and presentation should be based on something, which inspired you about this experience.  If you’ve attended OFFF or Reasons to be Creative, you may want to pick a particular agency or designer your saw talk about their work, do a profile of them, review their talk and analyse why you found them inspiring.  You may pick a theme you saw several speakers discuss (such as social and mobile media or a technology like html5) and explore the range of responses to this from the speakers you saw.  

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In response to the project I attended a six day work placement at a design agency called East Web. I helped to design a web site for a project called Location Darling, which helps people find suitable venues. This is what I came up with based on the sketches I was given and the design requirements: