Lesson video

Hello, my name is Mrs. Holborow, and welcome to Computing.

I'm so pleased you've been able to join me for the lesson today.

In today's lesson, you're going to be creating visual media and justifying the changes you made from your initial plans through to your final product.

Welcome to today's lesson from the unit, Using IT in Project Management.

This lesson is called Carrying Out a Project Part II.

And by the end of today's lesson, you'll be able to follow a design plan to create visual media and justify changes made from initial plans to final product.

Shall we make a start? We will be exploring these key words in today's lesson.

Visual media.

Visual media, media that conveys information visually.

Hierarchy diagram.

Hierarchy diagram, a diagram that shows the relationship between elements from a top-down perspective.

Look out for these key words throughout today's lesson.

Today's lesson is broken down into two parts.

We'll start by creating visual media and then we'll move on to justify changes made from plans to final product.

Let's make a start by creating visual media.

In today's lesson, we're going to be focusing on the digital dessert selector.

You are going to be creating the visual products for delicious desserts, starting with the interactive dessert selector.

This will include hyperlink slides that will take customers to a final dessert option based on the answers to the questions about their preferences.

For example, the customer might be asked, do you prefer chocolate or fruit? Before you start building the dessert selector, you need to plan the structure of the slides.

You will do this by completing a hierarchy diagram.

A hierarchy diagram shows how a user will move from one part of a system to another.

These boxes represent the first screen that the customer will see, followed by the first option box.

The remaining boxes have either/or questions that continue until the suggested dessert is presented.

Before you start to build your dessert selector tool, you need to plan the questions you will ask as the customer moves through it.

Your first question could ask the client whether they need help in choosing the dessert.

Because if they don't, they're probably not going to use the system.

If they do, you can then go on to ask some further questions.

Your questions should each only have two possible answers.

Do you need help? Yes or no? Do you prefer chocolate or strawberries? So it's either chocolate or strawberries is the answer.

Do you prefer cheesecake or waffles? Our answers here are cheesecake or waffles.

Let's have a look at an example path for the digital dessert selector.

So our top question is, do you prefer chocolate or fruit? The user selects fruit.

So the next question they're going to get is do you prefer cheesecake or waffles? The user selects waffles, so they're recommended that they buy the strawberry waffle.

Time to check your understanding.

I have a true or false statement for you.

It is important to use a hierarchical design before building your slides so that you can organise the structure of the questions effectively.

Is this statement true or false? Pause the video whilst you have a think.

Did you select true? Well done.

Why is this true? Creating a plan means that all the ideas can be mapped out on one page.

This can help to structure the questions and answers visually before building them into the presentation across multiple slides.

Let's now think about the build.

You can create a working digital tool using presentation software by adding hyperlinks.

You will need to open a new blank slide.

Format the master slide so that you don't have to format every new slide you insert.

So you can set the background colour here, the font style and font colour.

This is where we have to think about our house style.

Make sure you use the colours, font style and sizes you have planned for and maybe used in other products.

So think carefully about the colours, the font style, and the size of the text.

Let's have a look at the front screen.

This screen asks the customer if they need help choosing a dessert.

So you can see we have the delicious desserts logo at the top, and then we have the question, do you need help choosing your dessert? And we have two options, yes or no, which are going to be hyperlinked buttons.

To set up the buttons, click on the button you're going to link.

So in this example, I've clicked on the button yes.

Make sure you select from the slides in this presentation and click on the slide number you want to link to and then apply.

So if you're going on to the next question in this example, it would be something like going on to question one.

Time to check your understanding.

I have a true or false statement for you.

You can create hyperlinks if you only have one page in your presentation.

Is this true or false? Pause the video whilst you have a think.

Did you say false? Well done.

Why is this false? Hyperlinks need pages to go to.

So it's best to create all of your pages before you start adding in the hyperlinks.

You then need to test the links.

When you have completed all of the slides, check that the links work as intended.

Okay, we're moving on to our first task of today's lesson.

Task A.

Design an interactive dessert selector tool on paper.

Once you've done your design on paper, build your interactive dessert selector tool using presentation software.

Then check that the links work as intended.

Pause the video here whilst you complete the task.

Okay, so you've created your visual media.

We're now going to move on to justify changes made from plans to final product.

Now we're going to focus on the posters.

Now that you've designed your dessert selector, you're going to design a poster.

Choose one option from the posters below.

So you could do a poster that advertises the online order and delivery service, or you could choose a poster that's going to advertise the dessert selection tool.

Before you design your poster, consider who is the target audience.

So who is the poster aimed at? What is being advertised? What's the layout of the poster going to be? So where are things going to be positioned on the page? Your chosen house style.

So think about the products you've already created.

The poster should include the client logo, so delicious desserts, images to appeal to the audience, text to appeal to the audience, a slogan, persuasive language and images.

I'd like you to create a brief design using pen and paper.

Pause the video here whilst you complete that task.

Let's look at this poster together.

What is good about this poster? Maybe pause the video whilst you have a think.

The poster has a clear title.

It has appropriate images, so there's pictures of cakes and cookies.

It has some well chosen wording, so it says, would you like a warming waffle, creamy cheesecake or crunchy cookie dough? The colours linked to the house style and it contains all of the content mentioned in the brief that we've just seen.

What's not so good about the poster? Maybe pause the video and have another think.

So the message colour isn't very clear on the background.

Some of the text is actually quite difficult to read, so the message font is hard to read.

The chosen fonts are very different, so we've got lots of different fonts used throughout the poster.

It doesn't look very consistent.

And the logo colours clash with the rest of the poster.

What would you improve? Here is the final poster design.

That looks much better.

It's much clearer, and there's a consistent font throughout, and the logo now matches the colour scheme of the rest of the poster.

Okay, time to check your understanding.

There are two posters needed for the Delicious Desserts project.

What do they need to advertise? Pause the video whilst you have a think.

Did you remember? The first poster needs to advertise the online order and delivery service.

The second poster needs to advertise the dessert selector tool.

There are five things you need to include on your poster.

How many can you recall? Maybe pause the video whilst you have a think.

You need to include the client logo, images to appeal to the audience, text to appeal to the audience.

A slogan, persuasive language and images.

Did you remember all of those? Well done.

Okay, we're now moving on to Task B of today's lesson.

I'd like you to create a brief design for one poster on paper.

If you haven't done so already.

I'd then like you to create the poster using your chosen software.

When you are developing a final product, initial plans often change, and these changes need to be documented to prepare for the evaluation stage of a project.

Think about your dessert selector and poster and answer the following questions.

How well do your finished products meet the initial designs you created? What changes did you make and why did you make them? Pause the video here whilst you complete the task.

How did you get on? Did you manage to create your poster and review how your plans were different from your final product? Well done.

Let's have a look at a sample answer.

So here's Laura, and she's talking about her dessert selector.

Because I had taken time to make sure the structure of my questions was secure on paper, I didn't make any changes to it, but I did add in some images and slide transitions to make the presentation more visually appealing to my audience.

Now Laura's talking about her posters.

The main thing that changed from my design to my finished product were the images.

As it was a quick process, I just drew random images on my design as placeholders.

Then when I came to create the final product, I had to choose what was available copyright-free online.

I also forgot to add a logo, which was part of the brief.

If I have time, I'll go back and add this in.

Was your review similar to Laura's? Remember, if you need to, you can always pause the video and add some detail.

Okay, we've come to the end of today's lesson, Carrying Out a Project Part II.

Let's summarise what we've learnt together in this lesson.

A hierarchy diagram shows how a user will move from one part of a system to another.

You can create a working digital tool using presentation software by adding hyperlinks.

Editing the master slide means you can set a style once and use it across all of your slides.

Good products are made with purpose and audience in mind.

I hope you've enjoyed today's lesson, and I hope you'll join me again soon.

Bye.