Planning the Project

Unit 201 - Lesson 3

Lesson Goals

Know the key requirements of the client brief

Understand how to plan activities for a project

Be able to plan each of your documents

#audience #client#purpose #plan

Key Words

Plan

Client

Audience

Purpose

Working out how to create a project step by step by breaking it down

Person who has asked you to create your project

Person who will be looking at the finished product

Reason for creating a document and what it will be used for

Understand client requirementsBe able to plan your project

Client Brief

You are a junior developer for creative iMedia projects.

Based on the theme of science fiction, you have been asked to generate some ideas and produce a set of pre-production documents.

One product is likely to be a science fiction ‘B’ movie that will be produced on a limited budget for a teenage audience. You should develop your ideas with this as the core theme.

#audience #client#purpose #plan

Understand client requirementsBe able to plan your project

Client Requirements

Who is your client and what have you been asked to make: What are you designing your products for? What four documents will you make?

Comment on your target audience: Who is the target audience? What will you do for your audience?

Understand client requirementsBe able to plan your project

#audience #client#purpose #plan

Mood Board Mind Map

Visualisation

Storyboard

Equipment

Create a table of equipment and resources: What hardware, software and physical resources will

you need?

Understand client requirementsBe able to plan your project

#audience #client#purpose #plan

Equipment / Resources

Software

Mood Board

Mind Map

Visualisation

Storyboard

Techniques

Plan the techniques you will use to make each document: What will you use to make the document? What will you put into it? Why is this a good way to do it?

Understand client requirementsBe able to plan your project

#audience #client#purpose #plan

Mood Board Mind Map

Visualisation

Storyboard

Mood Board

Sample images

Colour scheme

Font style

Characters

Chosen from internet

Found in clip art

Found in Glogster

Understand client requirementsBe able to plan your project

#audience #client#purpose #plan

Mind Map

Main idea in centre bubble

Branch off in different directions

Linking ideas

Brainstorm

Bubbl.us

Understand client requirementsBe able to plan your project

#audience #client#purpose #plan

Visualisation

Sketch

Pencil and paper

Different views/angles

Develop ideas

Understand client requirementsBe able to plan your project

#audience #client#purpose #plan

Storyboard

Pencil and rubber

Start, middle and end

Include characters

Describe camera anglesCamera angles

Landscape

Understand client requirementsBe able to plan your project

#audience #client#purpose #plan