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KS4

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 4

Term

Year 10 or 11 One Year Option

Topic

Knowledge

Skills

Term 1

R082 – Creating Digital Graphics

Understand the

purpose and

properties of

digital graphics

Plan the creation of a digital graphic

Be able to create a digital graphic

Review a digital

graphic

Be able to plan Pre‐production documents

R081 - Examination - Pre-production skills

Pre-production Documents

Other considerations of Production

Coursework assignment - 25%

  • Why digital graphics are used
  • How digital graphics are used
  • Types of digital graphics, i.e.: bitmap/raster/vector
  • file formats
  • the properties of digital graphics and their suitability for use in creating images, i.e.
  • how different purposes and audiences influence the design and layout of digital graphics
  • interpret client requirements for a digital graphic based on a specific brief
  • understand target audience requirements for a digital graphic
  • produce a work plan for an original graphics

Creation to include:

tasks, activities, workflow, timescales, resources, milestones, contingencies

  • produce a visualisation diagram for a digital graphic identify the assets needed to create a digital graphic
  • identify the resources needed to create a digital
  • how legislation applies to images used in digital graphics, whether sourced or created.

• source assets identified for use in a digital graphic

create assets identified for use in a digital graphic

  • ensure the technical compatibility of assets with the final graphic
  • create a digital graphic using a range of tools and techniques within the image editing software application
  • save a digital graphic in a format appropriate to the software being used
  • export the digital graphic using appropriate formats and properties for: print use, web

use, multimedia use.

  • how to use version control when creating a digital graphic.

• review a digital graphic against a specific brief • identify areas in a digital graphic for improvement and further development

Understand the purpose and content of pre‐production documents‐

Moodboards

Mind maps/spider diagrams

Visualization diagrams

Storyboards

Scripts

Plan and consider‐

Client requirements

Target audiences

Research

Work plans and production schedules

Hardware, techniques and software used to digitalize or create pre‐production documents

Health and Safety considerations

Legislation

Create a moodboard

Create a mind map / spider

Diagram

Create a visualization diagram

Create a storyboard

Analyse a script

Explain properties and limitations of file formats for still images, audio and moving images

Explain naming conventions and version control

Be able to review pre‐ production documents

Identify

Investigate

Plan

Demonstrate

Create

Produce

Review

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Investigate

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Demonstrate

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Produce

Review

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Term 2

R085

Creating a multipage website

Understand the properties and features of multipage websites

Be able to plan a multipage Website

Be able to create multipage

Website pages using multimedia

components

Be able to review amultipage website

Complete coursework

R087 – Creating Interactive Multimedia Products

Understand the properties and features of interactive multimedia products

Coursework assignment - 25%

  • Investigate the purpose and component features of a multipage website
  • Investigate devices to access webpages
  • Investigate methods of internet connection
  • Interpret a client brief and target audience requirements
  • Use previous learnt skills from pre-production module to assist in planning.
  • Create a work plan for the website creation
  • Plan using a site map and visualisation diagram for your website
  • Plan and prepare the assets required
  • Plan resources needed
  • Make a test plan to use when creating website
  • Create folder structures to allow effective organization of webpage and assets
  • Find and import assets that are required
  • Make a master page
  • Use tools and techniques within web authoring software to create website
  • Create a functional navigation system for website
  • Save and publish website in an appropriate location and format using version control
  • Review completed multipage website
  • Consider areas of further improvement for your website
  • Discuss areas for development for your website

Identifies a wide range of products, details of purpose and where they are used and with detailed identification of design principles.

· Identifies a wide range of hardware, software and peripherals required to create and view interactive multimedia products, understanding of their use and purpose.

· Demonstrates a thorough understanding of the limitations caused by connections, bandwidth and data transfer speeds when

accessing interactive multimedia products.

· Identification of file formats and their suitability for different platforms is accurate

Identify

Investigate

Plan

Demonstrate

Create

Produce

Review

Identify

Investigate

Plan

Demonstrate

Create

Produce

Review

Term 3

R087 – Creating Interactive Multimedia Products

Be able to plan an interactive multimedia products

Be able to create interactive multimedia products using multimedia

components

Be able to review a

interactive multimedia product.

Complete coursework.

Resubmit other coursework.

R081 - Examination - Pre-production skills (Resit – if needed)

· Interpretation from the client brief for an interactive multimedia product which fully meets the client requirements and produces a clear and detailed identification of target audience requirements.

· Produce a clear and detailed work plan for the interactive multimedia product

· Use complex planning techniques to show what the product will look like. Identifies a wide range of assets and resources to be used

· Produce a clear and detailed visualisation diagrams for the intended final product.

· Create a clear and detailed test plan for the interactive multimedia product

· Demonstrate a thorough understanding of legislation in relation to the use of assets in interactive multimedia products.

· Sources, create and re-purpose the assets

· Prepare the structure for the interactive multimedia product

· Combines a wide range asset types with a clear and coherent navigation system to create a working interactive multimedia product.

· Save and export the multimedia product in a file format that retains interactivity and is wholly appropriate to the client brief.

· Save electronic files using file and folder names and structures which are consistent and appropriate.

Produce a review of the interactive multimedia product which demonstrates a thorough understanding of what worked and what did not, fully referencing back to the brief.

· Identifies areas for improvement and further development of the interactive multimedia product, which are wholly appropriate and justified

Examination - Pre-production skills (25%)

This unit will enable learners to:-

understand pre-production skills used in the creative and digital media sector.

It will develop their understanding of the client brief, time frames, deadlines and preparation techniques that form part of the planning and creation process.

(See Term 1)

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