GCSE Graphic Communication Process GCSE Graphic Communication

Throughout your portfolio Experiment With media (try out different techniques, don’t just ’play it safe’) With techniques With processes If things do not work very well, learn from it and show that in your portfolio THIS WILL GET YOU MORE MARKS!!!

Process For Portfolio’s (1) Inspiration board Fill page(s) with images and inspirations Analyse the products Comment on how you could use them Sketch around some images how they have inspired you (thumbnail sketches only needed – more if wanted)

Process For Portfolio’s (2) Design chosen area using mood board Fill page(s) with design ideas using your mood board Do not just copy ideas. Use the shapes Use the colours Use the typography style Use the theme Use the styling

Process For Portfolio’s (3) Research - Designers, Other work from other designers, things you see (take photos of billboards, packaging, logos, booklets, business cards etc) Find out about 1 (or more) designer – see designer analysis PowerPoint DO NOT just find out facts about them – this is useless Put their name at the top of the page Get information about them (their style etc) It does not matter where they were born, or grew up – unless you link this to their style and their influences Get images of their work Images can be from (and should be from a mixture) Internet Brochures / magazines Photos you take

Process For Portfolio’s (4) Update your ideas using these inspirations (and annotate) Fill page(s) and redraw your ideas you had before using the styling / influence of the designer Annotate your designs How did they inspire you? What have you used? What do you think it has done to your design?

Process For Portfolio’s (5) Develop them (and use annotation to explain why) Fill page(s) developing your ideas Modify them Change them Improve them Refine them Merge them

Process For Portfolio’s (6) Come up with a final design Draw your final design This is a plan of what your finished piece will look like Annotate influences Where has inspirations come from (artists work / your own work) Annotate key parts to help you in your making How will things be made? What will they be made from? A key skill you will use (particularly if on the computers)

Process For Portfolio’s (7) Make / formalise the final design (for component 2 do this bit in the exam) Make / draw and print the final design – it should look about the same This could be done; On Illustrator On InDesign By hand In Photoshop On the laser cutter In 2D Design On the Vinyl cutter Or any combination of the above

Process For Portfolio’s (7) Making Process Take screen shots / photos as you make Record and annotate – what skills did you use This is your evidence that it is YOUR work

Process For Portfolio’s Inspiration board Design chosen area using mood board Research - Designers, Other work from other designers, things you see (take photos of billboards, packaging, logos, booklets, business cards etc) Update your ideas using these inspirations (and annotate) Develop them (and use annotation to explain why) Come up with a final design Make / formalise the final design (for component 2 do this bit in the exam)

Process For Portfolio’s Inspiration board Design chosen area using mood board Research - Designers, Other work from other designers, things you see (take photos of billboards, packaging, logos, booklets, business cards etc) Update your ideas using these inspirations (and annotate) Develop them (and use annotation to explain why) Come up with a final design Make / formalise the final design (for component 2 do this bit in the exam)