Assessment 1 - PROJECT
Performance objective
Students are required to demonstrate their understanding and ability to develop complex desktop published documents by preparing to produce desktop published documents, design, create, finalise and produce desktop publishing documents.
Assessment Description: -
For this task you are to prepare THREE different sets of page layouts according to your client's requirements (role played by the assessor).
Your assessor will observe you doing this task and will be assessing you for:
- Using safe work practices
a. Adjust workspace, furniture and equipment to suit your ergonomic requirements
b. Follow workplace procedures in using computer equipment
c. Demonstrate energy & resource conservation techniques , such as following
- double-sided paper use
- recycling used and shredded paper
- re-using paper for rough drafts (observing confidentiality requirements)
- using power-save options for equipment
d. Identify and follow task & organisational requirements for text documents like naming and storing
- Discuss your client's (role played by assessor) requirements
- Set up your document including a master page for multiple pages and multiple columns
o Prepare your text
o Use master pages, templates and styles sheets consistently
o Link text boxes and columns for text flow and heading hierarchies
o Set up your colour palettes
- Arrange elements on your page
o Import graphics correctly
o Import and format text
o Create elements and arrange effectively
- Finalise artwork
o Compose pages and combined elements to suit specified sheet size
o Identify numerical sequence and laydown of the product or mock-up
o Allow for bleed
- Check quality
o Review your text, balance, layout, colour blends with client
o Rip the completed file
o Create a proof (and recheck)
o Make any necessary changes
o Save job accurately
o Create a digital proof or PDF
This requires you to talk to your assessor (who will act as your client) to put together a design brief. Review the observation checklist to know what is expected of you.
Your final submission must meet your provided design brief and be print ready!
You will need to arrange a time to meet with your assessor to identify their requirements and gather their copy and images.
Assessor will ensure specific resources for assessment are available to the student:
- access to office equipment and resources
- access to samples of desktop published documents.
ASSESSMENT 2
Questions
1. What ergonomic requirements must you adhere to when working on a computer? What work organization strategies should be used?
2. What are the different qualities of TIFF and EPS and when would you use them?
3. What is readability and what is the importance of designing for readability?
4. What are the points to consider before starting to write a desktop published document?
5. What are true type fonts?
6. What is the importance of type to the overall design?
7. What are the elements involved in design of a document? (at least 200 words)
8. What is design? Why is design and layout important in arranging artwork?
9. Why is it important to understand the target audience?
10. What are the functions of desktop publishing softwares?
11. List conservation techniques you could apply when producing desktop published documents
12. Describe in detail the ergonomically correct way to sit at a computer desk.
13. What is a style guide?
Attachment:- Produce complex desktop published.rar