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UNIT 4 PAGE Investigation Research:- The unit question is “what can I do” which is where we have to look a problem our country is facing and design a problem this is my idea. Malawi is a country where 51% of the population is children 6.8 million people. Most families have a lot of children so they have someone to support them when their older and to help with the work especially in rural areas. Most people in Malawi rely on agriculture as an income. Children in Malawi are used in child labor for agriculture especially. Most of the times they get low pay and long hours for example children in the tobacco fields will make about 70MKW and work for 12 hours. 37% of children in Malawi between the ages of 5-15 are involved in child labor. I want to raise awareness and help prevent child labor in Malawi and awareness of the subject. To do this I am going to make a poster which could double as a billboard on child labor. To test this product am going to ask people if my designs are effective and if It would change their judgment or if it is pitiful or sorrowful enough. The best deign will be chosen to what people think is the best and most effective billboard so like a poll. Design specifications:- Text Picture blur blend

Design Brief:- My task is to create a poster or billboard using the program gimp. It should be used to prevent child abuse in Africa or Malawi in general. Ideas:- I’ve uploaded some already billboards that I will use as Ideas and they will help me think of other designs. Sources:- http://www.un.org/en/globalissues/briefingpapers/childlabour/ http://www.ilo.org/global/lang--en/index.htm Plans

Create Evaluate
 * Date || What || Problems I might have? || Solutions ||
 * 6th may || Investigation || * Don’t know what to investigate
 * Incorrect information in sources || * Ask other people for ideas
 * Use multiple sources so I know what is completely correct ||
 * 13th may || Design || * Don’t have enough designs
 * Designs don’t have the design specifications. || Make sure designs follow design specifications ||
 * 27th may || Create || * Not be able to find the right program for design
 * Won’t know how to use the program well.
 * . || Look for tutorials and good programs to use and tutorials of these products ||
 * 31st may || Evaluation || * Under-estimating myself or over-estimating my product or stuff.
 * Not evaluating my product well
 * || Ask someone to evaluate my design and compare on what I wrote or did. ||


 * __ Evaluate __**


 * Investigation **

I think I should get a 3 for this because I didn’t really go into detail or explain what I was supposed to do properly I think I could’ve added more detail and not been as brief about the topic as I had been so that is something I need to work on adding detail. I also didn’t put any tests which are something I should’ve added in my investigation.


 * Design **

I think I should get a 4 for this because I had designs and compared them to the design specifications and I also think that I stated which resign I chose and why I chose it. I also explained which was better and more effective. My design however weren’t detailed or creative so I should look at that in the future using my imagination more when creating the designs. I should also have evaluated it more against the design specifications instead of just checking it against it.


 * Create **


 * Design specification || create ||
 * Text || Yes ||
 * Blur || No ||
 * picture || Yes ||
 * blend || no ||

I think I should get a 2 for this because the product wasn’t really a very quality product and you could see the problems and it was kind of a half job I didn’t really think of the plan when doing the evaluation so maybe I need to work on making the product better. My create didn’t have half of my design specifications and it wasn’t really good. Next time I need to work on looking and paying attention to the design specifications

Designs


 * Design specification || Design 1 || Design 2 ||
 * Text || Yes || Yes ||
 * Picture || Yes || Yes ||
 * Blur || Don’t know yet || Don’t know yet ||
 * blend || Don’t know yet || Don’t know yet ||

The first design shows a young boy working with a group of men in a factory yet he is dreaming of playing outside in the fields I think this really shows the fact of taking the childhood and voice of a child. This design also has the words don’t take away their childhood stop child labor. I think it does show the message I’m trying to portray and it really shows what I’m trying to say this is probably the design I’m going to use for my final thing. The second designs shows a boy sitting maybe making something with metal or whatever and then it shows the same boy having fun somewhere showing him what his chance in life could be. What he could have the child=hood he imagines. It says everyone deserves a childhood and also says stop child labor I like it but I like the other one better because it explains better and kid of looks nicer it also really gets my point through. These are my designs:-