Blog

You need to up-date your blog at least once a week. It is a record of your progress and will be used as part of your assessment.

Main project

By Friday 3rd of July you need to…
1) decide on a subject
2) Speak to the client (teacher)
3) Agree a topic for the learning resource

You need to know:

• Subject
• Client (Teacher)
• Topic
• Number of lessons
• Audience
• What resources are needed
• Brainstorm of ideas

Document Design

You should be building up a document which explains the different aspects of design listed below. You will need to access this in order to complete your leaflet evaluation next week.

• Images: Quality, size, file type, effects
• Colour: Colour scheme, CYMK or RGB, colour harmony, tone, colour associations, highlight
• Proximity: Layout, organisation, clutter, what should be grouped together
• Typography: Heading font, body font, font size, spacing, legibility, alignment, styles
• Contrast: Size, colour, weighting, contrast between items, stand out
• Balance: Asymmetrical or symmetrical, predictable, dynamic, hierarchy

Student assessment activity instructions

Research
Before you begin working on your own designs for your leaflet you should find examples of leaflets that all ready exist. Stick these into your visual diary and annotate them to highlight the good or bad design elements.

Planning
Before you begin to create your leaflet you are required to do some planning. In your visual diary, blog or similar:

• Identify the purpose of your leaflet, i.e. where and how it is to be used and who the target audience is.
• Identify all the requirements of the brief as specified by the stakeholder.
• Draw some thumbnail sketches illustrating how you will layout the pages of the leaflet. The sketches should show relative positions and sizes of both the text and graphics, identify the fonts, font sizes, text formatting and show the enhancements that will be used.
  

Creating
Once you have finished your planning begin creating your leaflet. The final leaflet must be saved, along wit all linked graphics, into a separate and appropriately named folder. All files must be saved with appropriate names and correct file extensions, e.g. .tiff for graphics.

Evaluating and printing
When you have finished, print proof read and evaluate an initial draft copy. In proofing and evaluating your draft ensure that:

• All specifications have been met
• All the supplied text and at least two of the graphics have been used.
• All spelling and grammar is correct (use a spell checker and get someone else to proof read it)
• All text is legible and reader friendly
• You have used at least two different enhancements (e.g. texture, borders, emboss)
• The leaflet displays balance, proportion, harmony and sequence
  

If as a result of your proofing and evaluation, you identify any chances that need to be made to the leaflet, make them. Then save and print a final copy to present to the stakeholder. You should also give your teacher the initial draft copy with proof annotations.

Brief

Please complete the template “the brief – blank” found in computing on the I drive.

Specification

• 3 fold leaflet (A4)
• At least 2 images
• Professional use of design principles
• Fonts used are legible
• At least 2 enhancements
• At least 150dpi

Bands

These are the bands playing at the different festivals, you should write an email which you would send to gain permission if you wanted to use any images of them found on the Internet.



Hip-Hop

• The Sugarhill Gang
• Roots Manuva
• De La Soul
• MC Solaar
• Ugly Duckling
• Beastie Boys
• Olmecha Supreme
• Kanye West

Dance and Electronica

• Candi Statton
• The Chemical Brothers
• DJ Shadow
• Hot Chip
• Massive Attack
• CSS
• The Go! Team
• Lady Emily
  

Rock & Pop

• Kings of Leon
• Oasis
• Yeah Yeah Yeahs
• Two Gallants
• The Killers
• Gang of Four
• Elbow
• Biffy Clyro
  

Reggae

• Dennis Brown
• Joya Landis
• Augustus Pablo
• Ken Boothe
• Althea & Donna
• Susan Cadogan
• John Holt
• Katchafire
  

Emo / Goth

• Fall Out Boy
• Panic at the Disco
• My Chemical Romance
• Evenessance

More to be confirmed for this festival

Folk

• Joanna Newsom
• Johnny Cash
• Pentangle
• Nick Drake
• James Yorkston
• Martha Wainwright
• Fairport Convention
• Emiliana Torrini

Over the holidays...

Brief
check that your brief is complete with the specification of the A4 3 fold leaflet.


Gantt chart
This should be updated and saved as a different version as you work though it. (Level 3: remember you need to add milestones - with any missed deadlines explained)

Level 3: Client
You may need to meet with your client again, they should approve all concept sketches before you start to create the final designs.

Make sure that your visual diary is up to date

• Research - evaluate / annotate documents similar to the leaflet (level 3: leaflet, poster, CD booklet) you will be making.
• At least three thumbnail sketches for each of your leaflet design.
• Concept sketch for final idea - this should be annotated both to describe the document and to say what tools and techniques you plan to use to create it.

Research and content
You should be gathering and creating the content for your documents, remember that if the content is not your original work you will need to gain permission to use the text / image from the author.