Assignment:

• Finish your magazine cover
• Do step-by-step tutorial ” Honeybee”
• If you have finished go to design.tutsplus.com and select a tutorial of your choice to complete the step-by-step. Save it in your project folder as “freestyle”

Assignment: (5/16-5/18)—ReTakes

• 5/16 and 5/17— Do GMetrix Training 1 and 2
• Review Study Guide
• 5/18- (Wednesday)—–Cert/EOC Test

Assignment 2 —If you do not have to retake

• 5/16—Finish Magazine Cover
• 5/17-5/20  Step-by-step Tutorial (Handout)

Assignment:

You need to design a magazine cover using Adobe Illustrator or PhotoShop. Your magazine cover can be based off of an existing magazine, for example use the layout and name of Teen magazine, but design your own photos, titles and story lines, or create your own magazine totally from scratch, around an interest you have. For example, create a magazine based on Animals, Shopping, Sports, Fashion, Music,or Fossils, etc. Your magazine cover must be school appropriate.

Make a folder called  “MAGAZINE” save this document as: Magazine Cover in the MAGAZINE Folder.

Your document  must have:

1. Document size 8.5 x 11
2. A background
3. A cover photo (may have smaller photos to show other features included in the magazine)
4. A Title
5. Several story line titles
6. Issue date
7. Issue price
8. Barcode

Your magazine cover will be graded on if you included the above elements and how you carry out Unity in your magazine cover.

_____Unity can be achieved by carrying out a common theme in the type styles, photos, story titles and descriptions. Do all the parts work together?

_____Think about readability, can you read the type against the background? Is the type style readable? Are the sentences too long? Are the titles descriptive enough to make you know what the article is about? Does the type size signify the importance?

_____Does the photo or photos support the theme? Does the photo catch your eye? Is it too busy or too simple?

_____How is your effort and craftsmanship? You will need to be selecting, cutting, pasting and cropping. Does your cover look professionally neat?

_____Layout, how did you arrange all the elements? Is the type all lined up flush left, right, centered? Is the type over the picture or a background?  Did you add a banner with the issue date,  web site, and cost? Does the layout make it easy to read or confusing?

Assignment:     Due date: May 13th

You will create a “Movie Poster”.  We will do a drawing to select a movie and you will design a movie poster for that movie. Be creative with artwork, text, etc. don’t just copy and paste making it look just like the one you find on the internet. Layer 1 should be your Background layer** —This has to be your original background.  When deciding on your movie poster design, keep in mind these 5 elements:

• GENRE: Does your poster clue us in on whether the movie is scary, funny, action packed?
• TITLE: Is it unique, meaningful, and pertinent?
• TAGLINE:  AKA Slogan….make it short and sweet, yet powerful…
• TARGET AUDIENCE: Who is the specific group interested in watching this movie? What can you do in your poster to appeal them?
• IMAGE: Does you imagery tell a story?  Give us insight into what this movie is about!

I’ll be looking for the “COMPLETE PACKAGE” and grading you based on these elements. Poster must be school appropriate.

             Size:  24 x 36 inches with 300 dpi resolution

       **Be sure to keep separate layers for everything you do***

**Layer 1 should be your Background layer** —This has to be your original background

                           ****Do not flatten the layers***

***Make a new folder called “MOVIE POSTER” and save document as: “movie poster” in the folder*****

Assignment: 

4/12—4/15

Finish your “Person” assignment if you did not finish. (see assignment on /4/11/16 for instructions)

4/18—4/19

Cert Re-Take!!!!—  If you will be retaking the Illustrator CC Cert Test on

4/21(Thurs)  review the Study Guide

NEXT

do Step-by-step project—(Handout)

• Save as “Simple Workspace” in your project folder

Assignment:  FreeStyle

• Create a person using shapes and any other skills you have learned.  Save as Person in your freestyle folder.  Be creative !!!!!!

Assignment:  Elementary Class T-Shirt

LHS Elementary has asked the Digital Design classes to design this year’s class t-shirt.

• They are requesting that the shirt be “Something Catchy” and “Upbeat”
• Design will need to have a Front and a Back design.
• The Design will be printed in black or white ink depending on the color of the class shirt
• Make a folder called  Elementary T-Shirt and save file as  T_Shirt

Let’s be creative  !!!!!!

Assignment:  Project  “Freestyle”

• Be creative with your Name-initials.
• Save as “My Initials” in your freestyle folder

Assignment:  Cert TESTING !!!!!

March 28th and 29th

• Do Training 1 to review tasks and study the “Study Guide“
• If you have already taken the test then FREESTYLE in Illustrator

NEXT

• CERT TESTING (WEDNESDAY– THURSDAY  3/30 – 3/31) !!!!!!!!!!!!