16/12/16 Revision

Revenue Stream

Identify and explain the revenue stream for a website (3 marks)

Revenue stream - funding/money used to pay for a production

Funding methods

• Sponsorship
• Advertising
• Crowd funding (not applicable to a website question)

Explain why a method is suitable

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Legal & Ethical

To avoid legal issues, permission must be gained

Legal Issues

• Intelectual Proprty
• Copyright, designs and patents act (similar to intellectual property, includes: images, text and music)
• Data protection act

Identify and explain one legal issue and the impact it would have on the production of an app 

(3 marks)

1. Copyright, design and patents act
2. Images of food/location/logo
3. Gain permissions to prevent prosecution

Ethical Issues

Offensive representations of people

Identify and explain one ethical issue and the impact it would have on the production of an app

1. Storyline/narrative features a range of areas in Yorkshire
2. Language used (pre-watershed)
3. Representation of genders

Identify two legal and ethical issues that need to be considered and the impact it would have on production.

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Regulatory Bodies

Identify a relevant regulatory body applicable to the scenario

Website/app - W3C, ASA, IPSO

Other regulatory bodies

• PRS
• PEGI
• OFCOM
• BBFC

Evaluation Question (Visualisation Diagram)

Evaluation Question (Visualisation Diagram)

1. Introduction - What is it? Why is it effective?
2. Effective features of a visualisation diagram (5 points) - Explaining why, examples from the brief
3. Ineffective features of a visualisation diagram (2 points) 
4. Conclusion - summary of how it is effective

Storyboard (Promotional Video)

• Describe location (not just EXT/INT)
• Camera movement arrows, describe them in the description
• Logo (title graphic)
• Slogan
• Close up of product
• Every square should have non-diegetic music

Revision Mindmaps

Effectiveness of a visualisation diagram

1. Fit for purpose
2. Strength
3. How well 
4. Usefulness

To prove the documents usefulness:

• Use examples from the brief
• Personnel - Job Roles
• Features that make it effective

What makes a visualisation diagram effective?

• Helps you to see what the final product will look like
• Helps you visualise layout and house style of the final product
• Helps you visualise the page layout
• Allows you to get feedback from audiences and clients
• Annotations
• Illustration to represent the layout

How can a visualisation diagram be ineffective?

• Can lead to a designer being stuck on an idea (trying too hard to make it look like the diagram instead of making what looks best).
• Structure isn't always clear, needs to be supported by a site map
• Annotations aren't detailed enough
• Illustrations are limited in regards to interacting with the website/app

Structure of evaluation question

• Introduction - state why it is important in the development stages of making the product
• Effectiveness - Give 5 reasons why the document is effective (support with examples from the brief)
• Ineffective - Give 2-3 reasons of how the document may not be effective
• Conclusion - "Overall ... is an effective document in the development stages of making a ..."

Storyboard Exam Tips

• Don't spend more than 25 minutes on a storyboard
• Annotations will be provided
• Don't draw stickmen
• Annotations are as important as drawing

Primary Research Mock feedback

Primary Research Mock feedback

To improve I need to:

• Link back to the question - on the last question I explained why it is important to sample all genders during research but I didn't explain it in regards to the designing of the logo which is what the question asked.
• Revise the advantages and disadvantages of open ended questions

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Exam Tips

• Highlight key words from the question
• Explain - give reasons, "because" (3-6 marks)
• Evaluate - strengths/weaknesses (20 marks)

LO4: Question 10 Evaluation

LO4: Question 10 Evaluation

The question will always contain the words evaluate, and effectiveness.

Types of pre-production documents you could be asked to evaluate:

• Mindmap
• Moodboard
• visualisation diagram
• SWOT
• Blue sky thinking
• Storyboard
• Script
• Sitemap diagram 

Effectiveness

• How useful the document is
• Why it is important
• Link to scenario
• The conventions of the document

Conventions are advantages, the consequences of missing/incomplete information are the disadvantages.

USE EXAMPLES FROM THE BRIEF

EXPLAIN WHY IT IS EFFECTIVE

Should aim to spend at least 20 minutes on the final 20 mark question

15 minutes per drawing question

Visualisation Diagram Analysis

Brand name (masthead, should usually be at the top of the page)
Product name
Image of product
Large font
Limited amount of text
Slogan
Logo
Web link
Product description
Review

Annotations

Justify designs (e.g. house style; link this to brief)
In sentences, using key terms.