The document outlines various potential problems and challenges the student may face in their final major project (FMP) related to illustration and planning a children's book. This includes practicing illustration techniques to develop a consistent style, researching existing characters for inspiration, managing storage and backing up of work, obtaining necessary software, and planning how to present the finished work professionally. The student describes strategies for addressing each issue, such as allocating time for practice, creating dedicated storage folders, purchasing additional software for home use, and researching printing options. Maintaining a weekly reflective journal is also mentioned as a way to document progress and lessons learned throughout the project.

1. Problem Solving
Task 3

2. Problems
• - Saving and backing up work content: sketches, drawings, story text, research on specific artists.
• - researching videos on illustrating and consistent drawings of characters, different positions and movements.
• Sketching and practicing my own style and technique making sure its original and unique from other illustrators.
• Making sure I can use software's such as Photoshop and in design if I cant get into college.
• Researching ways I can print my book out onto a hard cover with good quality paper for a professional approach to my work.
• Planning out my pre production and how long I will need to practice my style of illustration to ensure its perfected before
beginning production.
• Equipment such as pencils, paper, paints and anything I may want to use for my illustrations.
• Thinking about the cost of printing out my work, how I will do this for example Online or in a shop or college.
• Storage on my phone and home computer as well as college to ensure all my images, writing and drawings are kept and there is
enough room.
• Weekly reflective journal on production.
• My story

3. Illustration and planning.
• Before beginning my production I have to tackle a few challenges to ensure
my work is up to standard for my FMP. I haven't done much drawings
involving characters so I will need to make sure I have enough research on
existing characters and what style I could approach that is fully original but
inspired by other artists. I also need to create characters that are consistent
with their characteristics whilst being in different positions and
movements. To do this I will have to start by practicing sketching out the
character from the front, behind, left and ride side so I have a full over all
idea of how it will look. I am hoping if I give myself enough time to practice
with this I will end up with a consistent and skillful looking product. I will
always watch YouTube videos on how to illustrate for beginners so I havent
missed any steps.

4. Storage
• I will create enough room on my mac at college for a folder of all my
images from scratch, starting with my sketches all the way through
production. I will make this a new folder so there is enough room. I
will also put all this on a folder on my home computer so If I ran out
of room at college, I can always put any more work in that folder too.
With screenshots, I will want to create a lot of new ones like I do with
any project therefore I will begin to delete old ones that I no longer
need or want. I will also make sure there is enough storage available
on my phone, just so I can always send myself photos and sketches or
download videos related to the project.

5. Photoshop and in design
• I have the software's needed such as Photoshop and in design on my
college computer, however if I am un able to be in college and need
to complete work or finish off something, It would be useful to also
do this at home. Therefore I will probably get Photoshop on my home
computer as in the long run this will be really useful for my
production. I also already have a graphics tablet at home, so would be
able to use that on Photoshop and actually get some use out of it. As
it is my FMP, I think this would be very beneficial and help me keep up
to date, and not a waste of money.

6. Reflective journal weekly.
• So I have enough content for my evaluation to talk about, I will create
a weekly reflective journal on my progress and things that went
well/didn’t go too well and what I could improve, things I learnt. If I
do this, when it comes to evaluating my work and my presentation, I
will have enough to talk about and reflect on week by week as it is
such a long project. I also want it to be my best project yet with it
being FMP, so providing a lot of information is key. I will ensure I
provide detail on what I did that week as I don’t want to forget any
thing that got me to my end outcome.

7. Equipment
• Preparing what equipment I need will be key when it comes to
production as I want to make sure I don’t end up not having anything
essential. Things as simple as pencils that I can sketch with, paper and
sketch books, and any paints that I might want to use. For my last
project, I used a whole sketch book for my original sketches and
drawings and the practice I did to create them, so I will make sure i
have another for my FMP. Another thing I used a lot of was coloured
pens such as sharpies as I can play around with colour schemes
before going onto photoshop, so this will be useful too.

8. Presenting my work
• To present my work, I want to find a way I can present it professionally
like any other children's book would be. I want to print it out so it stands
out, so using a hard back cover and printing it out on the right kind of
paper in the right size will help me achieve this. I need to decide what
size I want my pages before beginning my work on Photoshop, as well as
deciding if they should be portrait or landscape. I will also research
where I will be able to print out my work as a book, for example an online
website where I can import jpeg images with a front and back cover, or in
a local supermarket such as tesco that has places you can print out
photographs onto professional paper.

9. Backing up my work
• So I don’t lose any of my work, I will save it all onto my mac. So far, I
have never lost work for any of my projects, therefore I especially
don’t want to with my FMP. I will save any of my work onto my mac,
then also back up onto OneDrive as that saves automatically. Incase I
also lost anything on onedrive or my mac or need to access my work
at home, I will also back it onto my memory stick. Just to ensure I
have a plan B.

10. The Story writing
• When I write my story, I will need to of already decided how many lines I will be
writing on a page, whether I will be keeping it minimal with a sentence on each
page, or two or 3 on each page or even writing my story through little poems on
each page. Whatever I choose, I need to keep in mind that the less writing on
each page the more illustration I will need to create. So I am thinking of keeping it
to about 2 sentences a page, with about 15 pages. I also want to write my story
before my illustration, so I can virtually be creating a story board for the text. I
also need to decide what I will be writing about. My theme is my puppies outings,
but I need to decide and plan where the outings will be as I will be drawing them.
For example, if I will be creating a wacky adventurous story with a twist where
she ends up in space and different countries, or just every day places such as the
park, beach etc. I will also decide If my text will be very descriptive with
adjectives or I will show this through the use of my illustration. Say if she is
wearing a coat and I write ‘her coat blew away in the wind’ or ‘her rosy red coat
blew away in the wind’. If I didn't’t describe the coat, I could just use the use of
colour instead.

11. TASK THREE - FMP PROBLEM SOLVING
• In this context relates to the level of self-direction, personal initiative
and commitment necessary to progress ideas and find solutions, and
the practical, theoretical and technical comprehension, appreciation,
knowledge and proficiency necessary to achieve identified goals,
likely to be evidenced in personal reflective journals, images,
notebooks, recordings, artefacts and through other practical media
related outcomes.
• Listed on the next slide are some common theoretical, practical and
technical issues with production. Please evidence how you would
overcome such eventualities. What is your Plan B? What about
research & development (R&D)?

12. Suggested approach
1. Mind map your potential problems, a mind map would be good for this
initially, looking at two core areas: Practical/Technical and
Theoretical/Creative problems
2. Take specific problems, you should explain these and the potential
effects on your project/production
3. Once you have identified a range of issues, begin to start devising
solutions or alternatives – there will be more than one way to fix issues,
bear that in mind!
4. Consider cost/time/etc implications
Create a new PP and section appropriately

13. TASK THREE - FMP PROBLEM SOLVING
Practical and Technical Problems
 Equipment
 Techniques (Research & development)
 Storage
 Power
 Ability
 Software
 Backing up (protect your data)
 Anything related to production
Theoretical Problems
 Filming outside (temperature, light, weather)
 Unwanted noise (wind, traffic, public, sounds)
 Actors & extras
 Crew dynamics
 Transport
 Locations
 Finance
 Toilet facilities
 Refreshments
 Production Time
 Job Roles
 Health & Safety
 Anything related to production
A list to get you started! Once size does not fit all, each project is different

14. Pass
Solve practical and technical problems within a creative media production project. Solve theoretical problems
within a creative media production project.
Merit
Solve practical and technical problems within a creative media production project to a high standard. Solve
theoretical problems within a creative media production project to a high standard.
Distinction
Solve practical and technical problems within a creative media production project to a very high standard.
Solve theoretical problems within a creative media production project to a very high standard.

15. What does this tell us? Basically, you need thorough preparation in advance of
preparation to mitigate for problems, BUT! It also means you need to track
problem solving in your diaries as it’s ongoing!