1. Creative and Media: Level 2 Higher Diploma Unit 3: Artefact
Level 2 Higher Diploma Creative and MediaUnit 1: Scene
3.2.1 Generating ideas
Once you have been set the brief for the kind of artefacts you are to produce, you need to start thinking
about how you might meet that brief. Recording your thoughts in this process is very important. Begin by
making a mind map below of all of your ideas for ways to solve the problems that the brief brings with it.
Process of making the artefact
Pictures (method)
Details CLAY POT Plan Size
Drawings Shap
Equipment
Health & safety
Will I have access to all the
equipment like the kiln?
Selecting your idea
Weighing up the strengths and weaknesses of each of your ideas is an important part of beginning to select
what you may eventually produce. For each of the ideas from your mind map, complete the evaluation chart
below. When considering an idea, think about the following and decide if they are strengths or weaknesses:
 whether the materials you may need are available and affordable
 whether you have access to the equipment you may need to produce this artefact
 whether you have the skills to create this artefact (or if you would need to ask someone with those skills
to help you).
Idea Strengths Weaknesses
Making a clay pot we will need a We have a kiln available in the None.
kiln to heat up the pot. art department in school.
Pictures Available to print through Cant be done if the internet is not
internet at any time working.
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