To hand in planning for

1. To hand in planning for • Trailer • Poster/DVD • Website

2. Success criteria Level 3 The candidate is expected to demonstrate proficiency in the creative use of most of the following technical skills: use IT appropriately for the task set; show understanding of conventions of layout and page design; show awareness of the need for variety in fonts and text size; accurate use of language and register; appropriately integrating illustration and text; framing a shot, including and excluding elements as appropriate; using a variety of shot distances as appropriate; shooting material appropriate to the task set; selecting mise-en-scène including colour, figure, lighting, objects and setting; manipulating photographs as appropriate to the context for presentation, including within text, within particular IT programmes, cropping and resizing. Where a candidate has worked in a group, a proficient contribution to construction is evident.

3. Level 4 The candidate is expected to demonstrate excellence in the creative use of most of the following technical skills: • using IT appropriately for the task set; • showing understanding of conventions of layout and page design; • showing awareness of the need for variety in fonts and text size; • accurate use of language and register; • appropriately integrating illustration and text; • framing a shot, including and excluding elements as appropriate; • using a variety of shot distances as appropriate; • shooting material appropriate to the task set; • selecting mise-en-scène including colour, figure, lighting, objects and setting; • manipulating photographs as appropriate to the context for presentation, including within text, within particular IT programmes, cropping and resizing. • Where a candidate has worked in a group, an excellent contribution to construction is evident.

4. Making DVD cover/Poster Tasks • Photography. • Getting your elements onto your canvas. • Editing the poster/DVD. • Final product and optimisation.

5. USE YOUR DESIGN Canvas sizes. • DVD outline is on my weebly. • Canvas size use the same as your magazine cover from last year.

6. Photography 1 lesson Take your images needed for your poster. Remember to take too many images. My advice is Google photography techniques and filet out the relevant information. You will never be a master photographer over night but you can use hints and tips to help your product. http://pixeltango.com/articles/photography-articles/20-useful-photography-techniques-for-snapping-beautiful-pictures/

7. Getting your elements onto your canvas. 1lesson Use this lesson to layout your elements. Maybe try one or two different layouts until you are Happy. Save a few copies as you progress. When you are happy save your file as a PNG(This keeps layers separate.)

8. Editing the poster/DVD. 2 lessons What effects can you use? • Brightness • Blur • Drop shadow • Use of layers to focus upon a particular point. • Google editing techniques.

9. Final product and optimisation. 1 lesson What is optimisation? What are your options? PNG JPEG These are the main two. JPEG is a smaller image which compresses like colours. As your product is for print it will probably be worth keeping it as a PNG despite the huge file size.