Pre-Production documents Flashcards
What is a mood board?
Mood boards are pre-production documents, used in the planning stage of a products development.
What is meant by mood boards being ‘visual tools’?
They are a visual tool used as a way of exploring the theme of a project and how it might look and feel.
What are the purposes of mood boards ?
- To develop visual ideas for how a project might look or feel
- Lets designers share ideas about the look or feel of a project.
- To show the client how a project might look or feel
- To show ideas for colour schemes to the client and project team
- Share ideas about fonts that could be used
Identify groups of people who are the audience for a mood board.
- Project team
- Designers
- The client
list the components on a mood board
- Colours
- Font samples (only of digital)
- images
- Key words
- Logos
- Title
- Annotations
- Sounds or video (only on digital)
- Textures (only on physical)
How can you convert a physical mood board into a digital version?
- Taking a photograph of it using a digital camera
- Scan it using a scanner
Describe how you can make a physical mood board.
- On paper, sketches,
- On a pin board
What software can you use to make a digital mood board?
- Office software (word or powerpoint)
- Graphics package (paint or Photoshop)
- An online tool (google docs or Milanote)
What is the advantage of using Google docs or Milanote to make a digital mood board?
People can work together and they can be easily shared and edited by people.
Identify Hardware that can be used to make pre-production documents.
- mouse
- Keyboard
- Monitor
- Touch screen
- Graphics tablet
What is a visualisation diagram?
Is a pre-production document made during the planning stage of a productions development.
What are the contents of a visualisation diagram?
- Images to use - size and proportion
- text- what writing goes where
- fonts - size and styels
- colours
- annotations
- The layout of a product- what goes where
what are annotations used for in visualisation diagrams?
- To provide detail about the design to the graphic designer (who will make the product)
- To explain why choices have been made to the other members of the design team
Who are the audience for visualisation diagrams?
- The project team
- Graphic designers
- Client
What are the purposes of Visualisation diagrams?
- Experiment with different design ideas
- Allows different ideas to be shares by the project team.
- Lets the client approve a design
- Gives detailed information to graphic designers so they can make the product
Explain why visulisation diagrams are used? (6 marks, three points and explain)
- Experiment with different design ideas, many visualisation diagrams can be made easily and cheaply allowing many to be made exploring different ideas. Ultimately ending with best one
- Lets the client approve a design, the client will be able to see a detailed description of the product and can approve all aspects. They can be show the different versions and display their preference.
- Gives detailed information to graphic designers so they can make the product, from all the annotations (full plan)
Describe how you can make a physical visualisation diagram?
Using a pencil and paper
Identify software that can be used to make a visualisation diagram.
- Office software such as word or power point
- Graphics package, paint and photoshop
- Online tool, google drawings.
Identify four items that can be found on mindmaps
Title in centeral node Nodes/ sub nodes links Images Colours for organisation key words
Why are mindmaps usefull to make at a first meeting?
Because mind maps are affective way for the degsiners to brainstorm and share ideas for the project.
what online tool can be used to make mindmaps?
Mind Mup
What is the purpose of a mindmap?
Its purpose is to help the team planning the product to generate ideas and to see how the project fits together.
- generate ideas
- show how parts fit together
- brings ideas together
- summarises the key points for the production team
What is a mindmap?
A mindmap is a diagram whith a centeral hub and nodes which shows any koywords associated whith a project.
