Outcome Chart - Prince Edward Island - Creative Multimedia 10: CMM801A

Design Principles

Explore personal and creative ways to use multimedia tools for aesthetic expression based upon knowledge of the elements and principles of design

Overall Expectations:

Students are expected to:

  • DP1: identify the principles and elements of design
  • DP 7.2: Perform a self and/or peer evaluation of works created using a rubric.
  • DP 8: utilize software to produce a document

Specific Expectations:

DP 1: Good design:

  • should be purposeful; students must decide whether the project is designed for attention or for transparency
  • should simplify; make complicated information easy to understand
  • should organize; help readers separate information by importance
  • should create unity; project a consistent image of ideas to readers using white space, type, and colours in a consistent way throughout the document

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Digital Imaging

Overall Expectations:

  • Form strategies to review, develop and convey effective multimedia content

Specific Expectations:

  • DI 13: apply images to a variety of media

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Video/Audio Recording

Overall Expectations:

  • Understand ethical and legal issues associated with multimedia technology
  • Form strategies to review, develop and convey effective multimedia content
  • Demonstrate skill in using a variety of technologies in the preparation of original multimedia

Specific Expectations:

  • VP 7: examine and become familiar with copyright laws, privacy and ethics in video and audio productions
  • VP 7.2: Identify copyright issues on a favourite music or video recording.
  • VP 8: develop an effective concept or idea from initial proposal to storyboard and script
  • VP 8.3: Write a brief script and illustrated storyboard in response to assigned topic or project.
  • VP 9: identify and apply basic video concepts and cinematic devices
  • VP 10.1: Generate a storyboard assignment based on a choice of a number of scenarios that have been provided. For example: (1) impaired driving (2) smoking (3) workplace accidents (4) inclusion.

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Web Authoring

Overall Expectations:

  • Apply critical thinking, research and problem-solving strategies in the development of multimedia creations
  • Explore personal and creative ways to use multimedia tools for aesthetic expression based upon knowledge of the elements and principles of design
  • Form strategies to review, develop and convey effective multimedia content
  • Understand ethical and legal issues associated with multimedia technology

Specific Expectations:

  • WA 1.1: Visit a web site that is directed at children and one that is primarily directed at adults. Identify differences in the way that information is presented to each group.
  • WA 3: apply principles of visual design to the web
  • WA 4: design for digital display
  • WA 11: select a media for a web site
  • WA 14: appreciate and comply with copyright and intellectual property laws
  • WA 14.2: Investigate how your own work can be “copyrighted”. Do you own the work if it is posted on the internet?

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