Skip to content ↓

KS3

Intent: 

Creative iMedia will equip learners with a range of creative media skills and provide opportunities to develop, in context, desirable, transferable skills such as research, planning, and review, working with others and communicating creative concepts effectively. Through the use of these skills, learners will ultimately be creating fit-for-purpose creative media products.

Creative iMedia will also challenge all learners, including high attaining learners, by introducing them to demanding material and techniques; encouraging independence and creativity and providing tasks that engage with the most taxing aspects of the National Curriculum.

Key Stage 3 (Year 9)

Term

Year 9

Topic

Knowledge

Skills

Term 1

Pre-production Documents

Other pre-production considerations

Careers in Digital Media

Understand the purpose and content of pre‐production documents.

Create the pre-production documents.

  • Mindmaps
  • Moodboards 
  • Visualization diagrams 
  • Storyboards 
  • Scripts

Understand, plan and consider‐

  • Client requirements
  • Target audiences
  • Health and Safety considerations

Film, TV, Radio, Games, Web

Create

Design

Identify

State

Explain

Compare

Describe

Discuss

Analyse

State

Explain

Compare

Describe

Discuss

Analyse

Term 2

Digital Graphics

Photoshop

Introduction to basic design theory

Introduction to colour theory

How to create simple, one layer images using JS Paint. (Introduction to simple menus and icons associated with digital graphics)

Introduction to Photoshop.  Tutorials including:-

Introduction to layers.

The toolbox in the Quick mode contains a small set of easy-to-use tools.

The first tools taught are available in the quick mode (Zoom, Hand, Quick Selection, Eye, Whiten Teeth, Straighten, Type, Spot Healing Brush, Crop, and Move.)

Tutorials on Tiny Planet, Colour Popping, Pencil Sketch, Cyanotype

Create

Design

Explain

Compare

Describe

Discuss

Analyse

Term 3

Investigate the purposes of Websites

Create a website using RocketCake

Be able to review a

multipage website

Complete coursework

Investigate the purposes of several multipage websites. (Entertain, E-Commerce, Inform, Educate, Instruct, Promote)

Learn common component features of a multipage website, and identify them in live websites.

Learn the features and tools of RocketCake web design software.

Find and import assets for a website

Learn how to make a master page

Use the tools and techniques within web authoring software to create website

Create a navigation system for website

Save and publish the website

Review completed multipage website

Consider areas of further improvement for your website

Discuss areas for development for your website

State

Explain

Compare

Describe

Discuss

Analyse