EPQ Artefact Essay

I'm trying to write my ~1500 word essay for my EPQ artefact. The topic I've chosen is to compose a piece of film music to accompany a clip (the leap of faith scene from Spiderman: Into the Spider-Verse). I always struggle with essays and I'm just not sure how to structure it / what sort of points to say. Thanks in advance!

Hi!
I did an artefact EPQ too and here was the structure I used for my essay.
- Intro
- background (why you decided on that topic)
- modifications (did you have to change or refine your original idea?)
- intentions (what did you want to get out of it)
- Research
- secondary research (what research did you do - reliability)
- primary research (did you conduct any of your own research)
- target audience
- Skills development
- skills you developed
- achievements
- Project evaluation
- the process of making it
- modifications you had to make to it
- challenges and successes
- strengths and weaknesses of your artefact
- future advice (what you would do differently/learned
- The process
- how you made it
Hope this helps!
Let me know if you have any other questions.
Michaela - UoP Rep

Hi!
I did an artefact EPQ too and here was the structure I used for my essay.
- Intro
- background (why you decided on that topic)
- modifications (did you have to change or refine your original idea?)
- intentions (what did you want to get out of it)
- Research
- secondary research (what research did you do - reliability)
- primary research (did you conduct any of your own research)
- target audience
- Skills development
- skills you developed
- achievements
- Project evaluation
- the process of making it
- modifications you had to make to it
- challenges and successes
- strengths and weaknesses of your artefact
- future advice (what you would do differently/learned
- The process
- how you made it
Hope this helps!
Let me know if you have any other questions.
Michaela - UoP Rep

What is the difference between primary research and secondary research and how do i go about writing about it?

Hi!
Primary research is research that you conduct yourself - for example if you created a survey and sent it out to people and then collated their responses, that would be primary research.
Secondary research is research that others have done that you may refer to - for example if you read an article about a certain topic and referred to it then this would be secondary research.
I would suggest talking in detail about a few sources that you may have consulted and any primary research you have done (if you do any). When doing this, talk about the reliability of the information; was it written by a biased source, when was it written, how reliable is it.
Discuss what you took away from the research and how it aided your project.
Hope this helps!
Michaela - UoP Rep

Thanks fo the help, does it matter if I haven’t conducted any primary research.