Unfortunately, my 6th Form Art Tutor has kept my sketchbooks to use as an example, so I haven't got all the planning pages I'd wish to show.
However, I still thought it appropriate to include what examples I could here showing the different types of planning processes I like to use, as well as how I have presented responses in the past.
A mainstay of the planning process throughout GCSE and A-Level Art and Design is shown to the right, a plan wherein the types of images I aim to achieve are the main focal point, with a little writing to support.
While this approach can be useful in getting an image already in one's mind, recently, and for my own work, I find it much more liberating to plan out one's general ideas and image types: objects and camera settings such as general shutter times, wide or narrow apertures. Then, to chose a few locations that may be ideal and to go out and shoot without a very rigid particular image in mind. This, I believe, allows for a far greater degree of creative freedom, and also reduces the potential for disappointment which can easily happen if one planned composition is not right.
