Why We Research OUGD405

Why we Research?

In freds session - in groups we made a list of different reasons why we research, what problems we face and how we can solve it.

We first created a brain storm for our specific topic. To get our focus point.

More donations-

• success stories
• reduce salaries of executives within the charities
• more information - money where it goes
• more informative advertising

Things that we can do :

• Giving out questionnaires: Specific , primary research, get the answers you need.
• Visual Influences: Visiting galleries , design skills beneficial to see others work.
• Reading related books ; Large body of secondary research , everything  published in the book is genuine.
• Attending lectures and seminars: To obtain specific information on your subject, in a reliable form.
• Taking photographs to show visual documentation of specific event sand locations which directly relate to your subject.
• Searching your subject on the internet, to find many sources to base research from.
• Research media which directly correlates to your subject.  

Reasons why they work for our specific topic - charity:

Questionnaires:-

• Figures about how many people donate
• Opinions about how charities manage their money.
• Facts wether something donates

Visiting Galleries:-

• Visual stimulation held generated ideas
• Information leaflets about your exhibition
• Photographs which you take for visual documentation

Reading Relevant texts:-

• Finding specific information such as statistics in charities
• relevant information such as figures from a certain year
• facts what the charities do
• figures how many people donated last year.

Searching your subject on the internet:-

• Opinions, blogs of charity workers/volunteers
• Photographs of how the money is affecting the recipients
• figures of donation on the charities , websites

Attending lectures & seminars:-

• Informed opinions of educated tutors such as there opinions on the corruption of charities
• Large amounts of information, which may relate to charity history.

Problems we may find when trying to research:-

• Not enough time to research
• Not having the resources
• money(not having it)
• Lack of motivation
• Not having the time to visit exhibitions
• Not having a camera to take photographs
• Not having the social confidence to ask people questionnaires.

Things that will help this:-

• Keep up to date - solve contemporary problems.
• To focus on your target audience
• To get a better understanding
• To be able to make informed decisions
• To develop your own opinion
• To help develop a range of ideas
• To have a greater knowledge of your subjects
• Visual influence
• Visual interpretation and opinions of others.