Flashcards (Sample)

To give a feel or look for what is needed by being creative.

Project starting point, Collect materials, Remind of style.

Image, Text, Materials (digital includes video, animation and sound).

Visual drawings of each scene of the project. What to film.

Projects requiring movement eg animation, games, movies presentations.

Locations, scene numbers, time on each scene, camera angles, sound, images and lighting.

An outline of an idea, then create different thoughts of the task

To see how your options can develop by showing connections called nodes and sub nodes.

Central Node with main topic, Sub nodes breaking the ideas into parts. Includes text in nodes, images, activities or requirements.

To give location, character names, scenes, who says what and direction to the actors and camera crew.

Movies, adverts, animation for a cartoon or computer game, intros for radio etc.

Location (INT, EXT), Description of scene, camera shot and movement, dialogue, sound effects.

To plan what a still image will look like when it's finished.

To show those making it, what it will look like, great for Comic book, web pages, DVD cover, game scenes, magazine covers, posters etc.

Includes, images, colour, colour schemes, text, text sizes and text positions and annotations to explain the layout.

To make time scales for the whole project and for each individual task or job.

Every media product, eg animation, video, computer game, website, kiosk system, presentation, comic book, posters, DVD cover, in fact everything!

Must contain Tasks, Activities, Deadlines, Milestones, Timescales, Duration and Contingencies.

Time put aside or actions put in place in case things go wrong.

Age, Gender, Location, Ethnicity and Income.

Age group you are trying to attract eg
15-25 or
30-45 or
65+.

Is your product aimed at Male, Female or Both? If both, are there different versions for each gender? eg
Blue and Pink one..

Where are customers based? Local Area (your area eg Corner shop offer), National (the whole country eg The Show "Wicked" on tour) or International (The whole world eg Fanta).

In a multicultural world, you need to make products appeal to the groups they are intended for so as not to offend eg to sell a product in Spain, the label should be in Spanish.

Consider the income of your target group. If the product is too expensive you won't sell it as your group can't afford it.

Primary is first hand, you have seen it eg.
Autobiography is written by you, about you,
You see a car crash so your info is primary.

Secondary is second hand, you've been told about it, but NOT seen it, eg
Reading a newspaper,
Someone telling you about an accident,
A history book etc.

FINE:- Court orders you to pay money.
SUED:- Customer takes you to court as they are unhappy.
PROSECUTED:- A court may impose a criminal record.

Cannot use unless you:-
1. Contact the person who made or owns the item.
2. Ask permission and gets it in writing.
3. Are prepared to pay to use it

Work you've done, ie a Presentation or an essay. An idea for an electrical gadget or to help people cross the road, even an invention or prototype.

The PEGI gaming classifications are:-

• 3 (all ages)
• 7 (7 and older)
• 12 (12 and older)
• 16 (16 and older)
• 18 (18 and older)

UK Movies classifications:-

• U (Suitable for all)
  PG(Parental Guidance)
  12 (Over 12)
  12A(Under 12 with Adult)
  15 (Over 15)
  18 (Over 18)

• Safe for disabled
• Safe for Vehicles
• No Tripping cables
• No Unstable Ground
• Appropriate Lighting

Too much noise prevents filming issues

• On Aircraft Flight Path
• Machinery on building site
• Generator for Electric

• Danger of falling
• Distracting People below
• Falling onto someone
• Dropping objects onto someone

The weather is dangerous:-

• Water and electric don't mix.
• Tripping hazards ie cables.
• People can be hurt by damaged equipment

Some items require more than 1 person to lift them.
Staff do lifting and handling course.
Correct lifting technique to avoid back problems.

RSI - Repetitive Strain Injury (repeating same movements)
Seating Position and height
Keyboard Ergonomic design
Mouse ergonomic design
Wrist rest
Distance from screen

Hardware are items you can touch for example, Keyboard, Mouse, Monitor, Printer, Scanner, Camera etc

An item of hardware connected to a computer and under its control. Items include, Keyboard, Mouse, Monitor, Printer, Scanner etc

Hardware that is not electronic for example:- Pen, Paper, Pencil, Rubber, Ruler, Pencil Sharpener (not electronic) etc

3 or 4 characters after the filename to tell you the type of file it is, for example:-
.png is an image file,
.docx is a Ms Word file,
.mp3 is a sound file,
.mp4 is a video file, etc

.jpg, .png, .gif, .bmp, tiff are all image formats.
Lossless:- .gif, .tiff, .png, .bmp
Lossy:- .jpg, .png
Transparent:- .png, .gif

Larger files, all the data is kept after compression:-
.gif, .tiff and .bmp.
.png can be saved as lossless for use on the web.

Lossy files have data missing when they are compressed to makes the files smaller for the web but the quality is not as good:-
.jpg, .png (lossy or lossless)

Where the background of the image can be removed so you can see behind the image (eg a website's background).

Transparent formats are .gif or .png

Sound or Audio file extensions are .mp3 or .wav

Video files extensions include:- .mp4 and .mov

Animation file extensions include:- .gif and .swf

.mp3 is Audio ie sound
.mp4 is video with sound

Slander is where you say something nasty
Libel is where you put it in writing

This is linked to Slander and Libel, where you say something nasty or untrue about someone else.

A document produced before any media project is started to minimise hazards and risks to people.

Identify hazards and dangers, decide who might be harmed and how to evaluate risks.

Take precautions, record findings, review and update

It's where you visit a location to check it and make sure it's what you want and is safe to use.

A place to record all the assets ie images, videos, animations logos etc that you used in your project.

Testing is where you test your product to make sure that it works and meet the client requirements.

A test plan is the list of tests you are going to do when you have finished. The testing is when you then do these test to make sure it works for the customer.