1. Commission
LOG
NOTE: Remember to give explanations on certain decisions, along with in-depth descriptions. (For Myself)
Problems
Date Work Undertaken Encountered and Actions required to move
Decisions Made project on
My Thoughts and feelings at the beginning of Being that it was the first From looking at the
the project: My thoughts and feelings at the day for the Commission
#1 different sections of the
beginning of the project were quite positive. I enjoyed Unit, there were a lot of
decisions made but not unit and reading the
the fact that we would be working and producing for a
profitable company as part of our commission. I feel such a lot of problems brief carefully and
this will be a lot more enjoyable than if we were to do encountered. We were thoroughly, it seems
a non-profit company, as those are not as easy to come tasked with two tasks, one
there is quite a lot of
by but I did have some mixed feelings, especially since of which was to
completely worksheet #1 work to produce in this
I’m not quite sure which profitable company myself to
but I’m sure I’ll enjoy it. which was to answer a unit but instead of
series of questions based describing and explain
around the idea of
What excites or interests me about the work: what I have to do for the
commissions, some people
The prospect of working for a profitable company that about what rest of the unit, I’m just
interests me the most as working for a non-profitable information you would going to discuss the
company or a charity company, I feel, wouldn’t be as have to include for a actions required to move
fun due to the fact that they aren’t easy to come by, proposal as an act of a
not just by finding them but thinking of suitable ideas
the project on from this
commission. I decided to
and solutions. Another thing that excites me however group the questions and stage to the next. From
about the work is the schedule. We have this unit once have my answer labelled reading the brief it
a week on a Tuesday and I really enjoy that as it underneath clearly as I seems I will have to issue
doesn’t harm on me too much. It’s nice to know that didn’t want to get
just once a week I’ll have to fulfil my log and duties
myself by finding a
confused and could then
with some work outside school in between, rather than plan and think carefully profitable company. This
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Tuesday 13 September 2011 2 or 3 or even more days a week. It keeps things fun about how I was to might become difficult in
and exciting and not a grind. approach the question. areas but I’m sure I can
Most of the questions
find a profitable
were fine to answer with
Concerns I have: I am mostly concerned by the fact company that their
no trouble but I did come
that I’m not sure how I will find a profitable company. I
into some problems with willing to accept me for
will have to find one in order to continue this unit so
one in particular which some commission work
I’m sure it’ll be fine but I don’t just want to find a
was to describe how you
profitable company, but a profitable company I’d enjoy as if I don’t find a
could use feedback to
as that would give me more incentive for working for profitable company fairly
improve for a future
and with the company as a commission.
commission task. The soon with the 2-3 week
answer seemed simple as time span I have been
How I hope my project will turn out: I feel the in, you would take the
set I could be in a lot of
project will turn out quite well at the start, feedback and just improve
progressively getting better with a few hiccups in upon it but it was trouble with how I am
between, due to the fact that there will still be a lot of becoming painfully clear going to forward this
objectives and writing to fulfil. It’s not that I dislike that I had to be more project but I’ll make sure
writing and typing, I enjoy it and I like how we have specific than that so I
I can find this profitable
some leniency to produce a artefact for a profitable decided to think about the
company but like a lot of things, tiredness will be an feedback itself, would do company in the
issue but I’m sure overall it’ll be a nice addition to the you do with the physical upcoming days with
work flow. feedback and with that decisions on either the
travel of thinking I
phone, via email and so
managed to convey an
What I hope to learn from this experience: What answer I was happy with on as I don’t want to be
I hope to learn from this experience is to know how that question. The second left stranded in the
and what I should expect if I ever have to go into a of the two tasks issued middle of the 2-3 week
commission phase for a company. I feel it’s very helpful was to create and

2. in some situations as media is a type of career I’m complete a first entry in time span without any
considering going in for. Video Games, Films, Music our log which is here right
#1 idea of what clients to
and more are all forms of media and there and many now. I found only one
different shapes and sizes of the stuff but with a little problems being that of search and what type of
work experience and having some knowledge thrown layout, font sizes and artefact I’m going to
in from this unit, I feel that would be quite beneficial more, I had the content of produce.
later on in the future, especially if I decide to go for a the log entry already
media-based career which I’m hoping to do. figured out on my mind
and decided to get that
out of the way, with that
My initial ideas in response to the brief: When done I could see how font
thinking of initial ideas in response to the brief, I had a sizes and layout would
few but it was mostly based around an imagination shape out. I tend to write
company where I could choose what kind of media I quite a lot and have plenty
wanted to proceed with. I really have to see what type to say so a small font
of profitable company I’m going to engage with and would probably be suitable
take part in commission, as if I base everything on a for the occasion, my
website for example and they decide to turn that idea problems was fitting it all
done, I’ll have to look elsewhere and that isn’t very fun in, so I continued typing
nor effective but as it stands some of the initial ideas I until I could look at the
had were to produce a video or some kind of moving screen in full and see how
image, whether that be a documentary, animation and exactly things would shape
so on, but this might take quite a while to produce and out, what sections to
might lessen quality so perhaps something simpler like stretch so I can add more
a painting or inferior design for one room might work to one page and it seemed
better but choosing something even simpler and “Work Undertaken” would
smaller such as a poster or leaflet might not be so take the brunt of it as that
much fun. is the most common
section of the log I feel I’d
The creative and/or media disciplines(s) I am write for and thus talk and
likely to use: The creative and/or media disciplines I discuss more and since I
am likely to use are most likely going to be digital want to achieve higher
based. I can’t say for sure what I’ll use until I speak marks and actually explain
with the company at hand but what I can say is that I things rather than just flat
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Tuesday 13 September 2011 want to go for a digital approach. I understand that a out give a description, it
lot of what I will be doing in the unit is digital based, would be a fair amount
typing up log entries such as this, processing things and longer but with that came
so on but it’s something I’ve got used to and quite a final issue in that the log
enjoy. Programs such as Adobe Photoshop and Adobe would become too long
Flash are programs I enjoy using on quite a regular and too complicated to
basis so it seems to make sense I’d go the digital route read but thankfully, being
using those types of programs and creative media a first log entry and having
disciplines. quite a number of sections
to answer it didn’t seem to
be as bad, as these weeks
The skills I will need to use and develop: The after would be much
skills I will need to develop are my research skills. I feel smaller will the less
I am a good all-rounder when it comes to everything sections they hold.
else with planning, talking to people being that of a
social context and actual production of a product with
how quality and quantity is concerned by research isn’t
my strong suit due to I just don’t find it that enjoyable.
I find a little tedious and a little boring and it’s perhaps
further due to the fact that I’m not much of a reader,
I’m a quick reader in that I’ll happily read articles,
reviews and such that are no more than a page long
but after that, I feel things start to drag so research
skills and perhaps a hint of planning skills I will need to
develop. The skills I’ll need to use our my research,
planning, production and social interaction if I am to
move this project forward as without decent research
and planning, the production of my artefact could fall
under and thus lead to social interaction becoming
awkward and overall, disappointing.
Important deadlines and or other constraints I
will be working under: The only deadlines and other
constraints I will be working under is that of the
examination board and my teacher. I want to do myself
and teacher proud by producing work at a steady,

3. suitable level by firstly finishing section step 1 of my
work by the 7th of November, Step 2 by the 3rd of
January and Step 3 by the 21st of January. That way I
can be happy with my work and feel I’ve achieved a
good steady work flow whilst achieving good quality
work and fulfilling that aim.
What I did Today Future Ideas
#2 Today I completed Activity Sheet 1 which was to
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explain What was a Commission, I worked through
various questions and found it quite easy to answer
Go through the rest of the
Activity Sheet’s whilst
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after the presentation about Commission we got going at a good pace and
before from our tutor, researching and speaking with with good enough quality.
my peers.
#3
Today we were asked to go through the rest of the
activity sheets, with this being activity sheet number 3.
Activity Sheet 1 was meant to be completed at the very
start but I decided to make progress and a good
adaption to the first entry of my Log as that was
something I wanted to have of good quality but today I Prioritise Activity Sheets a
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Tuesday 27 September 2011 began working on Activity Sheet 3 which discussed
Small and Large Commissions, it was rather fun
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learning the differences between the two along with length sentences.
the discussions with the class. Activity Sheet 1 was
something I produced in my free time but my teacher
would’ve preferred I finished Activity Sheet 1 first.
#4 In Today’s Lesson I adapted the notes I did for Activity
3 on Small and Large Commissions and changed them
into full sentences and paragraphs. It was a very
productive lesson and me and my friend Ed managed Find a client and obtain a
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to work together and get it done to what I feel was a
great standard. Our tutor discussed that the beginnings
brief from client. N/A
of us working with someone and actually starting our
actual commission project would begin once we had a
brief.
#5 Today’s Lesson had me searching the internet and
various places to find a client. It was a somewhat
enjoyable lesson but mostly frustrating as I didn’t Find myself a client and
manage to find a client by the end of the lesson. Most obtain a brief from him by
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of the other pupils in my class managed to, mostly due
to the fact that some of their clients were families with
doing further research or
by other means.
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businesses themselves as it had to be a client who had
a profitable company of themselves but I didn’t
managed to find myself a client, it was disappointed
after searching for quite a long time.
#6 Finally in Today’s Lesson I managed to find my client,
Richard Hoare from Auriga Jewellery. I was very
pleased with the client I managed to obtain, being that Try contacting client for a
he is a family friend and works for a Jewellery company Brief and finding ways to
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in Reading’s town centre that isn’t too busy and pretty
good for producing various different artefacts. I
get feedback and such
more regularly for the rest
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emailed my client on a brief but I did not get a reply of the unit.
during the lesson. I was pleased to finally have a client
and even though I had text messaged and rang Richard
myself, I got no reply.
#7 Today’s lesson was very productive. I managed to not Make sure to keep not only
only contact Richard during the weekend and obtain a the blog but the activity
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Tuesday 1 November 2011 brief but managed to continue working on the much sheet progress and
needed activity sheets in part 1 of part 2 with the communication exchange
activity sheets going from 1 to 9. I completed Activity
Sheets 3 and 4 and even began working on a
blog post up to date. N/A
Communication Exchange blog post which I will add

4. the communication between me and my client Richard
throughout the whole Unit. I was pleased with my
progress and having to unpick and understand the brief
was a little tricky at times but thankfully Richard
Emailed it to me in a clear context than me writing
down notes from a phone call.
#8 For this lesson I was once again continuing progress
with my activity sheets and managed to make more
progress in my communication exchange blog post on Look into Research and
the website, blogger.com by adding my response to deciding what exactly to
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the brief and adapting the communication I had before
by typing up what each piece said against the print
research based on what
I’ve detailed in
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screens and various images I uploaded to the blog post. Understanding The Brief
I improved slightly on the activity sheets I already Activity Sheet.
added in terms of presentation but this lesson was
more exciting as towards the end I was beginning to
get into the research part which is quite interesting.
#9 Today began the Research Phase where I decided to
look at different Jewellery Advertisements on
generating ideas and so forth. It was quite fun looking
for these advertisement and discovering there is more Research further at home
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than I initially realised being that of the amount of
Jewellery Based Television Adverts but sadly, YouTube
and make sure to watch
the advertisements that I
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and other video media streaming websites were have linked in the post.
blocked by the college’s domain so I decided to make a
new entry in my blog and apply the links into that very
post.
#10 For Today’s Lesson, it didn’t get off at a great start by
ended what I felt was, to a good standard. I didn’t
manage to watch the advertisements fully and analyse
them but I did manage to quickly download them and Think and work harder into
transfer them to my memory stick so today’s lesson I how you can take the
nd watched through the three advertisements multiple elements of the
Tuesday 22 November 2011 times, with all having their own strengths and
weaknesses and began to import them into the blog
advertisements research
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and write underneath each ones some analysis, how advert for Auriga
they were good, how they were bad, what elements I Jewellery.
would take into my production and I was surprised by
the amount of ideas I am going to put into my own
production by just watching these advertisements
carefully. It was a fun and interesting lesson.
#11 Today was a very busy but fortunately very productive
day as well. I went through some of the activity sheets
which I have not done in a while since I was
researching but I was nearing closer to actually
producing my advertisement. I had been in contact
with my client and it seemed apparent production Being looking into
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must happen soon but the activity sheets I did
complete consisted of Generating Ideas, SWOT
production for my
advertisement for Auriga N/A
Analysis and Target Audience. Target Audience was by getting templates ready
something I slotted in last moment as I forgot to and such.
feature it in my blog from discussing with Sarah but I
was glad to manage to put that in the last 10 minutes
of the lesson. Quite fun lesson, but probably be a lot
more exciting and less tedious once I get into the
production side of the unit.
#12 Today’s Lesson had me finally begin producing my
advert. I was very happy as video editing and
production is something I like to see myself as a
speciality. I began to make some pre-production
materials such as the Auriga Logo, Twinkle Shapes,
th backgrounds, banners and so forth. It took a while to Begin to work on the other
Tuesday 6 December 2011 get around producing some of these pre-production
materials as I was being a little too impatient at times
pre-production side, the
more literal phase. N/A
but I was glad to get some of this done and felt it was a
good move to get some templates ready such as soon
as I open Photoshop, the right dimensions would be
ready so I can get cracking. Fun and creative lesson
indeed.

5. #13 As I produced mostly the creative pre-production
elements in my work, it was time I made the more
literal pre-production elements such as the script,
narration, music tracks and more. It was still a very Do not act into production
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December 2011
creative lesson, even if there was a lot more writing to
be had and I was edging closer to finally producing my
right away until you have
feedback/response from
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advertisement. I had some spare time to start a your client.
template in Adobe Premier Pro for the artefact, but I
also contacted my client on what he thought of my
pre-production materials, I did not get a response in
the lesson but should do very soon.
#14 Today’s Lesson I finally managed to produce a 1st draft
for my advert. It felt great to finally get a first draft out
as I managed to get feedback from my client on the
pre-production materials and he said they looked great
but I would need to make adjustments to the bottom
banner in particular but such adjustments I will be
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Tuesday 3 January 2012
making in either a second or finally draft of the
advertisement as I feel that’s more suitable for timing
Organise Blog Presentation
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reasons as in today’s lesson I also replaced not only the
temporary wildlife footage I used for my video, I also
worked hard on the activity sheets and managed to get
sheets 1-9 done, part 1 of 2 was complete and I was
very pleased with myself and even managed to add
more details to my communication exchange post.
#15 Today’s lesson was a bit of a lazy one, I admit. During
the weekend I managed to organise my blog a bit
better in terms of the post and it’s presentation and
added a few more pre-production materials such as
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the narration but simply today I imported the narration
into the advertisement and rendered out a 2nd draft,
Work hard on the rest of
the project and don’t focus
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being the same as the 1st draft with narration but for so much on the artefact
my final draft I’ll remember to do some of the itself
adjustments I was tasked on doing by my client as I
simply forgot to import them into the 2nd draft of my
artefact.
#16 Today was going to be one of the first lessons left of
Commission and our tutor hinted at deadlines so I got
into a phase and managed to work pretty hard,
ignoring the final draft of my artefact a little and work
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on the rest of the unit, completing the rest of the
activity sheets with the only exception being the
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production diary. It was tiring but I was glad I got so
much work done and it was nice to see my blog still
nice and organised.
#17 In Today’s Lesson, it felt almost like a clean-up lesson. I
neatened up my log as you can see here and neatened
up a few more post, adjusting fonts and including
information and features I might’ve missed on my first
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or second runs on my entire blog. I also managed to
have just enough time to render, export and upload a
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final draft of my artefact being that of a television
advertisement for Auriga Jewellery and I was very
pleased with the result and so was my client, my peers
and so forth.