Year:6
Strand: Graphic Design / Multimedia
Time: 9 hours (in total for both parts) /
National Curriculum Objectives:
- Select,use and combine a variety of software including internet services and a range of digital devices.
- Present information in a variety of forms.
- Chn can evaluate and apply information technology including new and unfamiliar technologies.
- Chn are responsible, competent, confident and creative users of information and communication technology.
This unit has been joined with the multimedia strand unit for Year 6. This makes this unit a 9 week unit where chn will be making and editing a movie. When the children have completed their movie (6-7 hours) they should then consider how they might promote this movie to the other children in the school. Consider the possibility of setting up a school cinema where other classes are invited to view the finished Year 6 movies. The Year 6 students need to design promotional posters to advertise their movies, with analysis of popular movie posters being used as a starting point.
You must:
- Analyse and select common features from well known movie posters.
- Know how to use screenshots from the movie in your poster (Use ‘Print Screen’ or some other screen capture method).
- Add a main title.
You should:
- Add a cast list.
- Analyse and use colour effectively (light text over dark background or vce versa; don’t use too many colours, etc.)
- Add an appropriate movie tagline.
You could:
- Design\Create an original movie poster (without using screen shots).
- Scan the original image for use in the promotional poster.
Key questions
- What are the most common features shared by movie posters?
- How can you capture still images from your movie?
- How is text/font size important?
- Why is it important to consider colour?
- What is a movie tagline? How do they attract the audience’s interest?
Links to more info:
(note: this is strictly a teacher resource as some taglines on here are not age appropriate. Teachers should use this site to choose appropriate taglines to share with their students.) / Resources