Coursework
The coursework will account for a significant proportion of your final exam mark and during the two years of study you will be producing material that can be incorporated into your final submission to the exam board. As you might expect of any visual-presentation the more creative you can be in the use of colour, type and images, the more impact your work will have. If you are unsure of anything related to the course ask your teacher as soon as possible. There are many example of the work of other students’ in all areas of the department in many schools, so look around and then ask. Lessons and opportunities that contribute material to the design and practical folders for your coursework will be planned by your teachers so you should be as well prepared as you can be - with a clear idea of what it is you hope to achieve in those sessions.
Packaging
Why are products packaged? What packaging can you see around you as you walk to school or college or on the way home. Unfortunately much of what you might
see is litter but all of this started out as wrappers that PROTECTED, PROMOTED, PRESERVED and CONTAINED the products – and INFORMED a customer about what the products were, who made them and perhaps even enticed people into buying them. Products also needed TRANSPORTING effectively and cheaply. We all spend a tremendous amount each year on food and snacks and a great deal of designers’ effort goes into deciding what will feature on packs and in promotions and advertisements for those products.
You will be asked to look around you and see what these designers have done... and then improve on that ! Remember ... The initial letters of the important words introduced at the start of this paragraph - PPPICT - perhaps even make up your own mnemonic to help remember them.
see is litter but all of this started out as wrappers that PROTECTED, PROMOTED, PRESERVED and CONTAINED the products – and INFORMED a customer about what the products were, who made them and perhaps even enticed people into buying them. Products also needed TRANSPORTING effectively and cheaply. We all spend a tremendous amount each year on food and snacks and a great deal of designers’ effort goes into deciding what will feature on packs and in promotions and advertisements for those products.
You will be asked to look around you and see what these designers have done... and then improve on that ! Remember ... The initial letters of the important words introduced at the start of this paragraph -
Promotion and Marketing
Remember that it is possible to score 100% in your work and students have done that in the past in the coursework section of their work. This obviously has been as a result of really committed work in class-time following careful thought and preparation at home.
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