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.

Music festival: Infofmation for your brief

Music Festival

Location: Wellington waterfront
Dates of the festival: 11th, 12th and 13th December
Target audience: Teenagers
Adults: 3 days - $55, 2 days - $35, 1 day - $20
Children / discount: 3 days - $35, 2 days - $18, 1 day - $10

Document
We need a 3 fold leaflet, which can be used to promote the festival. It needs to include the dates, location, directions, information about the venue, cost, Featured and headline acts.

Music festival logo - What you need in your clear file

1) Your completed tick sheet
2) Sketch of your logo (taken from visual diary)
3) Completed logo
4) The completed template (copy and paste from your blog)
path: I:\Computing\Y12 DIT\ 5958 V5

Music Festival Logo

Year 12
5958 Version 5
Deadline: End of Week 7 Term 1

Introduction
There are a number of musical festivals happening in summer 2009. The promoters have approached local design schools to create a logo for the events. Your logo must include lines, curves, shading, 3-dimensional perspectives and text. You must then place your logo on a t-shirt or bag to show your what your design would look like.

Pick which of the following you would like to work with:
• Dance: Electric Boogaloo
• Hip Hop: Bling Beats
• Rock / pop: Download
• Jazz / Folk: Under the Willow
• Emo / Goth: The End
• Regae / Roots: Red Dub

Tasks
Visual diary
Research into logo design, what are logos used for? Good design? Different types of design?
A variety thumbnail sketches and ideas for your logo design, you must say which one you are choosing to develop and explain why.

Blog - Outline
Create a step-by-step outline to describe the steps you will follow to produce your design.
Justify the tools you have selected to produce your design.
Describe the shape of the illustration, and identify the techniques to be used to create it.

Blog - Research into computer design
Describe the advantages and disadvantages of computer design illustration.
Compare computer design to other forms of design illustration production.

Blog - Brief
Describe the purpose and communication objectives of your logo. What must your logo include? Who is the audience? How will it be used?

Create your logo
Using illustrator follow the steps you have outlined in your blog to create your logo as a vector image.

Create your t-shirt or bag
Using Photoshop create your item follow the steps you have outlined in your blog to create the texture and place your logo.

Evaluation
Evaluate your logo against the outline and logo against the brief.

Assessment
You should use the tick sheet on the back of your assignment outline to self and peer assess your work and progress. Work can be carried out in class or at home. Progress will be monitored via visual diaries and blogs.

Example of good work

Visual Diary

Your visual diary should include; brainstorms, thumbnail sketches, concept design, research into effects, tools and techniques and design. Your sketches should be annotated to describe different elements of your design for example font, colour, layout as well as justifying (saying why) you have made these decisions. Click on the examples to enlarge the image.

Gantt chart

Gantt charts are used to plan and organise our time for the length of a project. Useing your brief you should decide the order of tasks and when you plan to carry them out. Here is an example of one:

Click on the image to view.

Designer Profile

Visual diary
Research e.g. what designs do you like? What effects have you found?
Ideas e.g. this could be a spider chart, thumbnails, colour / texture swatches
Concept design e.g. layout, annotate justification, different options
Interview the designer

Blog
Design brief and specification
Same as your visual diary but with words
Ideas and developments

Produce solution
Take a photograph of your designer
Use Photoshop to create or work with different elements of your designer profile e.g. photo, background, heading

Bring together all the elements of your designer profile
Use InDesign to put everything together
Add text e.g. about your designer, where they are from, hobbies, their influences, style, experience with DIT
Add effects to finish your designer profile