Monday, 16 June 2008

For June 18th (Wednesday)

Bring in your questionnaire, done. Ten people will have filled it out. You will be in a computer room and making graphs and pie charts of the information from your questionnaires. Then you will be making conclusions from the graphs and charts.

Wednesday, 11 June 2008

For Monday 16th June

Make sure everything you should have done is complete by 16th June. it is essential that you keep on track regarding time.

The work so far:
Spidergram
(film genres, target audience, promotional items that might be sold or given away when a film comes out). This is called an analysis. Use coloured pencil behind the words... it will really lift it and make it look finished! Have at least 20 'bubbles'.

Research Plan
(what you are going to research, where, and spaces for ticking off whether you have done it). This is in the form of a table. if you still need to do it and you are not sure how to draw tables, you may do it by hand PROVIDING YOU USE A RULER!! The more different places you research from, the better the grade you get in that section.

Dvd Research
Try and get at least six examples of DVD covers (scanned in from real ones or from Google) and annotate them. Good annotation will include: a brief description of what it is made from and whether you think it is successful of not.

Case Study
Picking one example of a Dvd and its cover, put an image of it on a page and annotate it. This should be more detailed than the six examples of designs you annotated earlier. Say:how it would be produced in industrywhat you like about different parts of the design (the font, colours, image, logo, etc)what you would do differently.
For a little more on Case Studies, you can look the topic up in the 'Major Project hints' section on the Tech website by clicking here.
If you are in doubt what to put, you can see also see some good examples by clicking here.

Questionnaire
At least 10 questions. These may be either multichoice or yes/no questions. You can also show people examples of, say, 3 dvd covers and ask them for example which one they feel would be most appropriate for the project you are thinking of doing.

The small-scale models of dvd covers
These are the ones you created in 2d design with Mrs. Reed. These should be mounted on a sheet of A3 and annotated with a brief descrption of how they were created and what situation they would be used in.

Now we come to the 'Nice If You Could Do It But Not Essential' section...
A design brief... something along the lines of: 'I am going to design and make a dvd cover for a film 'The Key'. The dvd will be given away free with a Sunday newspaper and magazine'.

All the best!

Mr. Bower