Project Plans

• Research tool – research led
• Not an objective
• Timetable/Schedule of work
• Sets the pace to allow goals to be achieved
• Work backwards to plan from unit objectives (cross check with documentation)
  • Critical review / literature review + proposal
  • Reflective commentary
  • Evidence of practical work
  • Learning Log
• Work towards outcomes you want to achieve
• Organic
  • Is relevant to the stage of research the photographer is at
  • Can be retrospective and prospective from that point
  • Needs regular revising as research progresses
• Is defined wrt the photographer’s research topic
  • Individual not generic
  • What information do I need to progress
    • Practical, visual data from photographing
    • Research data from reading, etc.
• Establishes/encourages the relationship between research and practice
• Specific, but not over-specified – and can be changed!
• Level 3 project plan is divided into two halves, by a Midpoint Review
  • First part of plan can be more exploratory
  • Second part should be more tightly defined by milestones
    • What?
    • When?
    • Include draft stages
• Ariadne finished with a Ginzburg hunting analogy:
  • The project plan is the skeleton that allows you to put flesh on the beast you are hunting and so define it
  • The hunter must be flexible in their approach – consider dangers and more appropriate outcomes based on the information they uncover in the field
  • From my notes on Ginzburg, I am still convinced that the hunter’s main task is familiarity with the field. Therefore the project plan for me should essentially be tasks to gain that familiarity. Once this is achieved the beast will come in to focus by standing out from its surroundings.

BIBLIOGRAPHY

1. https://learn.oca.ac.uk/course/view.php?id=315#section-12 (Accessed 25.6.2022)
2. https://documentary515050.wordpress.com/2022/03/01/ginzburg-microhistory/