HSC Assessment Task 1 Major Project Planning

Setting up your Major Project Portfolio

The purpose of developing templates for your major project portfolio is to maintain consistency and improve the overall visual presentation. You will develop a series of templates that you will use for each page throughout your portfolio, whether they be text-based, image-based, or a combination of both when completing each section of your portfolio. By ensuring text sizes and alignment of elements on each page are consistent will present your work more professionally.

Instructions

1. Click on your Google profile image in the top right-hand corner of your screen and click "Manage your Google account".

2. Search language and change language to English > Australia. This will change all units to metric when using rulers and guides.

3. Open a new Google slides document.

4. Go to the menu bar and click on File > Page setup > Custom > Enter either A4 or A3 measurements depending on your preference. (Smaller screens i.e. school laptops A4 = 29.7cm x 21cm, Larger screens i.e. home desktop A3 = 42cm x 29.7cm).
   *Note: A3 portfolios present more professionally.

5. Next, turn on rulers and guides by going to View > Show guides.

6. Set a 1.5cm guide along the left edge of the slide and a 1cm guide along the remaining three edges by clicking, holding, and dragging the relevant vertical and horizontal rulers.

7. These guides will appear on every additional slide as you begin to construct individual templates for text-based and image-based slides of your Major Project Portfolio.
   *Note: You need to turn guides on each time you re-open your document. Guides will automatically turn off every time you close your work.

How to write a statement of intent

1. Read the two exemplars attached below to get an idea of how to structure and what information to include in your Statement of Intent.

2. Refer to your Rapid Planning Method (RPM) and include this information to guide the development of your Statement of Intent.

3. You must include sections that explain your Aim, Design and Design Constraints associated with your Major Project and justify why these aspects of your Major Project are to be achieved.

How to Construct a Mind Map

By now you will have some idea of what you intend to manufacture for your Major Project. The next stage of your design process is to begin researching an extensive range of materials, processes and components and explain how they relate to your Major Project. To begin researching many designers develop cognitive organisers, or mind maps. Mind maps are an easy way to brainstorm thoughts, improve information recording, show how different facts and ideas are related, and support creative problem-solving.

Instructions for success

1. Duplicate an image-based template in your Major Project Portfolio and position it below your Statement of Intent.

2. Construct your mind map using the shape and arrow tools in Google Slides.

3. Include a subject for your mind map e.g. Major Project, Research.

4. Add topics that branch off from your subject. Topics you may include, but are not limited to are, timber, joinery, finishes, materials, skills, constraints, components, processes.

Refer to the exemplars below to gain some inspiration on how you might construct your mind map.

Research of Materials

You will use a range of materials to construct your major project. Materials may include, Timber Species, Adhesives, Finished, Hinges, Drawer Runners and any other materials that you choose to use. Note "you choose to use", this is a personal choice and your decision of selecting the appropriate materials for your Major Project needs to be justified. To develop your justification you may refer to relevant factors such as advantages/disadvantages, workability, accessibility and cost in your research, using the wood solutions website.

Tip: Construct a table on a duplicated template in your Major Project Portfolio, to format your research and include the Name of the Material, Brief Description, Workability, Advantages and Disadvantages.

To help you present your research in a logical, clear and well laid out manner, refer to the exemplars and associated Marking Feedback below.

Research of Processes

By now you will have some idea of the materials you intend to use to construct your major project. Your next task is to research a range of relevant joinery processes you will apply during the production stages of your major project. You may have some experience with joinery processes and a very limited understanding of others. To begin your research, you need to reflect on the components of your major project and ask yourself a question about how you intend to construct each component, for example;

1. Does your project have a drawer, door or table top?

2. What joints exist for the construction of these components?

3. Are some joints better than others?

Instructions for success

1. Duplicate a table template in your major project portfolio

2. Move this template to the bottom of your slides

3. Research an extensive range of processes you intend to use for your major project. Start by searching the timber website then use google.

4. Justify why you have chosen these processes.

5. Complete your research in the duplicated table template and turn in once you have finished.

Refer to the exemplars below and read the assessment marking criteria to guide your research.

Selection and Justification

By now you will have researched a range of materials, processes, techniques, and joinery. Now you need to select the materials, processes, and joinery (from your previous research tasks) you intend to use to manufacture your major project and justify why you have selected each component. Things you need to consider are, how each process is completed and why this process is best suited for the production stages of your major project. You may also take into consideration your level of experience and accessibility of workshop tools and machinery.

Tip: If you are unsure about what it means to justify, refer to the definition in your Subject-Specific Terminology (SST) Document and NESA's Glossary of Key Words.

Refer to the exemplars below and read the assessment marking criteria to guide your research.

This stage of your Major Project planning requires you to conduct a PINE analysis on a range of existing project examples. Use the Australian Woodsmith Magazine and refer back to your work from task 1a. Project Research to identify projects that relate to your major project design.

The Major Project Portfolio - How to do it guide states that in your development of ideas you need to:

Compile a list of ideas gathered when researching your design these can be either in the form of annotated sketches, models, prototypes, a list of written ideas, a diary of ideas or examples from magazines or brochures obtained online.

Refer to the exemplar below and read the assessment marking criteria to guide your PINE analysis.

By now you will have completed a PINE analysis on a range of existing designs. Your next task is to sketch a range of concepts ideas and annotate each sketch to explain different components of your concept ideas.

Select the best ideas and arrange them in your folio in the order of preference with the most preferred at the end. Annotate each design by neatly printing your thoughts (and results from experimenting and testing) about the design and make sure you relate your comments to your statement of intent.

Refer to the exemplars below and read the assessment marking criteria to understand how your sketches will be assessed.

The next sketching and idea generation process is to select and develop a series of scale orthographic drawings of one of your design ideas. The purpose of this task is to identify the dimensions of your project that will be used to create working drawings and cutting lists for you to source all of the necessary materials for the production of your major project. Refer to your PINE analysis of existing ideas and their associated working drawings in the Australian Woodsmith Magazine issues to work out dimensions when sketching your major project designs.

Things to consider:
1. Converting dimensions - Some drawings may have imperial dimensions (inches); therefore, you will need to convert these dimensions to metric (millimeters) - 1 inch = 25.4mm

Conversion Calculator

2. Standard timber sizes - Use common timber dimensions when sketching your projects, and check that they are available through the supplier i.e.
Thickness = 3mm, 6mm, 12mm, 19mm, 25mm, 35mm;
Width = 12mm, 19mm, 35mm, 42mm, 45mm, 70mm, 90mm, 120mm, 140mm

Isometric drawing is a form of 3D drawing, which is set out using 30-degree angles. Isometric projection is a method for visually representing three-dimensional objects in technical and engineering drawings. Sketching your project or your intended joinery will communicate in detail specific components of your major project.

Tips for success:

• Watch the tutorials below that demonstrate how to use the splat tool.

• Select a component of your project and produce an isometric drawing of the joint you intend to use.

• Scan your drawing into your portfolio and annotate.

The management and communication section of your portfolio requires you to develop a timeline plan using a table, Gantt chart or spreadsheet. The timeline plan should break down your major project and portfolio into a series of tasks and estimate the expected allocated and finish time for each task. The timeline plan should be used as an ongoing tool for assessment of progress and therefore, used as a management tool to assist in the successful completion of the major project.

The timeline plan should show:

• a sequence of every task required to complete your major project and portfolio.

• estimated time of completion of each task, and the actual time of completion of each task.

• any variation to the planned sequence.

• an evaluation that explains any future changes or adaptations.

Refer to the exemplars below and read the assessment marking criteria to guide your Time Plan.

The finance plan is a projection of the cost of materials and other resources. This will identify what finance is available (ie. your budget), estimates of costs, actual costs and a progressive balance. Demonstrate a genuine effort to develop a budget based on available finances.

• It is not just a number of receipts collected and totalled at the end of the project.

• document the finance plan as an ongoing exercise this will also provide you with an opportunity to demonstrate ongoing evaluation.

• demonstrating that everything in the finance plan has been used in the project.

• make sure that any variation/s in cost due to changes in design and other changes are evident in the project.

• showing any variation in design due to unforeseen costs is evident in the project. retaining all receipts and include them in your folio as evidence of all financial costs explaining all changes to the finance plan in the ongoing evaluation.

• the finance plan should not be written after the event.

Refer to the exemplars below and read the assessment marking criteria to guide your Finance Plan.