Research involves looking deeper into something and finding information about a chosen thing. It gives you the opportunity to find in depth knowledge of something. It is very important and creates ideas and allows you to evaluate and improve your original plan - almost giving you something to follow or aim towards... using it as inspiration. You can get different techniques in research, you can look in a book at the library, visual research by looking at stuff, you can listen, contextual research looking at how things are made, you can always use the internet, using Google to and reading deeper into your topic, you could easily access YouTube and find educational videos on there, watching people do things and trying to act out exactly what they do. Visually practicing doing things is also researching because you're developing your skills and understanding of doing what you do. Research can oftenly be seen as a review of something, meaning you look at it from start to finish - you begin to gather all the relevant information, and then later refine from that information and expand with more knowledge, this late developing into a hypothesis. Within a physical experiment, a variable must be manipulated. Quality research, must rely on case studies and purely observational science.
Brainstorming is where you bring all of your ideas together from researching, and expand on them, making a plan using your creativity. Brainstorming is very important within the creative process because this is where everything comes together, and you've got to make sure you choose the best parts and create the best final outcome possible. Brainstorming can also involve jotting down all of your ideas that come to mind, and once all the ideas are down, you will evaluate them from there and build on top of them. Brainstorming can also be used as a set of specific rules and techniques, which encourage and spark off new ideas which would never have happened under normal circumstances. This is a really great way of bringing up new ideas from the top of your head with surprisingly little effort. Brainstorming is oftenly performed within a group activity where people would sit around a table and jot down everyone's ideas, bringing everyone together and creating a big discussion when it comes to evaluation, to what your next move would be within the task. Brainstorming can involved template sketches, depending on the task. Brainstorming within photography can also involve test shoots, developing on what actually looks correct or fits the theme.
Development is gathering all of the ideas, bringing them into an actual project of what you are going to do next. The next move, you do... like how far are you going to take these ideas. It involves using technical knowledge to meet specific objectives or requirements. Test shoots can also play a part within development, as you are generating your ideas through your mind you are developing your images, improving them as you are going along with it. Development means gaining the skills, knowledge, understanding and experiences necessary to do our current work well, prepare for any changes in our current job or prepare to move to another job. All of your ideas that you had put together within the brainstorm, involves makes them into a task. You could have an idea based around the word urban, then you will gather a lot of urban objects, materials, locations and bring them all together and use them to your advantage creating an image based around it. Development is definitely a growth, growing your ideas, expressing them, making them bigger and even stronger by adding things on top. It also Increases your knowledge, as you are really managing to grasp the topic you are doing a project on.
The final outcome is the best thing you managed to produce, the best image, after bringing all of your ideas together into one image. It is a collection of all your research, your brain storming and development bought into one thing. The results of a final outcome, can be a gain, they can be a loss, advantage or maybe even a disadvantage. The final outcome is always personal preference, believing in what you think looks best and fits the scenario perfectly.
An evaluation is an in depth, descriptive script based upon everything you have done within your project. Collecting what you believe was the best parts, the worst parts, what could have gone better and how you can improve it next time. It gives you time to reflect and look back upon your work and then for next time, you can work on your disadvantages and make your work way better. There is also an evaluation that you do throughout your work reflecting back on what you have done and then the next thing you will do is going to be better than your previous work.
