1. Unit 1 - Timeline ----
Week 1 – Course Intro
- DTP Elements & Principles
Week 2 - Magazine Analysis
Week 3 – Thumbnails and Visuals
- Class project
Week 4 – Serif Package Class project
Higher Graphic Communication

2. Learning Intentions & Success Criteria
L1. Analyse a given brief and identify the key principles and tasks which need to be carried out.
L2. Describe using correct terminology decisions for choice of colour and layout.
L3. Create and annotate possible solutions to the task
L4. Develop initial ideas and create a final solution to the problem
L5. Correctly describe the Design Elements and Principles
S1. I can successfully create a specification from a given brief
S2. I can create a range of ideas which interpret the given data
S3. I am able to describe why I have chosen a particular design and colour layout for my products.
S4. I can create a DTP document which relates directly to the given brief
S5 I can use the correct terminology to discuss design elements and principles.

3. Task 1
Using the website create three mind maps as revision sheets.
1- design elements
2- design principles
3- dtp common commands/terms
Use the links and your previous knowledge to explain or display each term/ command.
Completion date 12th June

4. DTP – Element & Principles
Colour (warm, cool, contrast, harmony, accent, advancing and receding),
line,
shape, texture, value,
mass/weight , alignment, balance,
contrast, depth, dominance, emphasis, proportion, rhythm,
unity/proximity
white space,
grid structure

5. DTP – Element & Principles
copy/paste, text box, handles, colour fill,
Colour picking,
textured fills,
gradient fill, margin,
single and multi page format, title,
extended text, alignment, page size, orientation,
drop caps, line
spacing, heading, cropping (square and full cropping), text
wrap, flow text along a path, bleed, pull quote, transparency,
drop shadow, rotate, justification, paper sizing
reverse, column,
gutter, caption, header and footer and folio.
Planning strategies, thumbnails, visuals and annotation
proofs
(pre-press), register marks, crop marks, run off.
Bleed ,grid, guides, snap, master page layers, serif and sans serif, font styles, column rule/
rule, indent, hanging indent,dropped capital, running headline, reverse, import/export