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WorksheetsR081 Baseline Assessment
Total questions: 30
Worksheet time: 15mins
What is a client brief?
The scenario of what the person paying you to make. Specific details for you to include in the product.
A case with files in it.
Don't know
Who is the target audience?
The people you are aiming the product at, the buyers/readers/viewers
Anyone
No one
What do we need to consider for the target audience? (Select 2)
Their age
Gender
How much they earn
What they like
How do we know what to add to our product for the target audience?
Using the brief from the client it will state some details that you need to consider. Then knowing my own thoughts I can use age specific or gender specific elements to make it appropriate.
You don't, just do what I want.
Ask the teacher
If you were aiming a product at young children (3-5 years old) what would you suggest is appropriate for them on a poster? (Select all that apply)
Use basic text, very little writing
Use basic or primary colours
Use well know characters from a movie or a book to help them identify what it is about.
Make the text really small.
When you are given a brief how do you know if you have met it properly?
Use a list of success criteria as a checklist, document the key points from the client brief and tick them off as they are completed.
When it is completed then it's done.
What could I use to make a digital graphic?
Photoshop or Fireworks
A computer
Paint
Word
How could the Location or Ethnicity of the target audience impact on your designs?
You may need to be mindful of certain words, colours and images, so you are not discriminating against anyone of an Ethinic origin. The location could impact because you would not advertise a small festival in rural Cornwall in Scotland for instance.
It doesn't impact at all.
I don't know
What is pixel dimension?
The combination of how many pixels wide and high.
Tiny squares in an image
Computer program
What is DPI?
Dots per inch
Do put it here
Dog playing it
What are the typical DPI for Print and Web (select 2 answers)
72 dpi
300 dpi
100 dpi
3000 dpi
What is compression setting?
Linked to the file format and quality of the image. It reduces the file size and can be lossy or lossless.
A way of making files smaller
Air pressure in a tyre.
What is colour mode?
The colour profile and bit depth of the image. Most commonly RGB.
Lots of colours
Don't know
How does the use of colour influence the target audience?
Colours can stimulate different moods, warm colours make people happier for instance.
People will be moody if there is no colour
Catches their eyes
What is composition in an image? Select all that apply.
Positioning of the main image
Use of lines to draw attention of the eye
Use of perspective
An image
What is white space in terms of graphics?
The area that is blank, not always white but one plain space of a colour.
A waste of space.
Nothing important
When designing an image who are you aiming it at?
Client
Target audience that is stated in the brief
Anyone I want.
What planning documents do you need to use/create? (Select all that apply)
Work Plan
Visualisation
Drawings
A product promotion
What is a mood board and what is the purpose of a Mood board?
Collection of idea, materials, products to give a ‘feel’ for the product but is not what the final product will look like.
A board to show my mood
Mood words
What is a visualisation and what is it used for?
Rough drawing of what the product will look like, mostly hand drawn with annotations. Use to show what your design will look like.
A collection of things that will be on the product
A futuristic picture.
What is a storyboard and why do we need it?
A plan that shows set by step what is happening in each scene or section to show the sequence of what will happen in a timeline.
A board that has a story on it
A series of pictures in a sequence
What things should be written in the work plan?
Tasks, times, activities, milestones, contingency
Job, location, person responsible
Tasks, costs, equipment
What are assets and do you need them?
Images/logos/text/information used as part of the design. Can be made or sourced to be used on the product.
Things that you own
Things that make up a product
What is copyright and what does it protect?
The exclusive and assignable legal right, given to the originator for a fixed number of years, to print, publish, perform, film, or record literary, artistic, or musical material.
A law to stop people doing something to your work.
A law
Nothing for me to worry about
What software could you use to make a professional digital graphic? (Select all the apply)
Paint
Powerpoint
Photoshop
Fireworks
Illustrator
What must we consider when we are creating our digital graphic?
Technical compatibility, the DPI, pixel dimensions and resolution.
The size of the image and the content
Where the image has come from
Royalty free permissions
When using images from the internet what must you do?
Get the owners permission to use the images or use royalty free images.
Use it anyway you want and make money from using it.
Change it slightly so that it is now your own work.
What too can you use to select a single colour and remove it effectively?
Eraser
Magic wand tool
Lasso
Magnetic lasso
When making a digital graphic what should we ensure we use to enable us to alter different elements of the image?
Layers
A single layer
Filters
Layer styles
What tool would you use to make a part of an image opaque?
Eraser
Free transform tool
Selection and then opacity on that section
Burn
