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Contrast is one of the best ways to add visual interest to your document. || This may take the form of checking using a calculator, physical checks to ensure that electronic data matches the source document, formats are correct etc. || At Levels 3 and up, a strengths and weakness report may also be included. || . || [|http://www.educ.kent.edu] || In computing, a plan usually consists of a set of steps that the student will take in order to fulfil the brief and the subsequent conceptual design. At levels 3 and 4, the plan will identify milestones and resources (such as time, expertise, materials and finance). || Many factors affect readability. For example, contrasting colours (the higher the contrast the better), clean font style (sans serif), less is better (remove unnecessary words). ||
 * Accessibility || Web pages are able to be opened and viewed on a variety of browsers and configured to be viewed by people with disabilities such as visual impairment. For example:
 * alt labels will be provided for images to enable text-to-speech software
 * all text uses relative font sizes so text can be enlarged or reduced using the text size options available in visual browsers ||
 * Accuracy || the condition or quality of being true, correct, or exact. ||
 * Alignment || The principle of alignment tells us that every item on a page must be aligned with another item. The alignment of items creates cohesion. Decisions about alignment need to be made consciously because different kinds of alignment produce different effects. ||
 * Analyse || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">To break something down into its parts to show how the parts relate to each other to make the whole. It goes beyond identifying and explaining to a detailed examination that could include wider implications, issues and/or ramifications. Analysis addresses the 'So what?"and 'What if?' questions. ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">Audio Effects || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> Sound that helps to convey meaning by supporting, or in some cases contradicting, the visual elements in a production. ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Audited Formulae (spreadsheets) || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">A printout of audited formulae, from the tool within the spreadsheet program. ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Balance || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">a principle of design that places elements on the page so that text and graphic elements are evenly distributed ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Breadcrumbs || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Navigation element which allows visitors to orient themselves within a website. It provides a trail for the user to help them avoid becoming lost - tells them how they navigated through to get to the current page and how to get back to the entry point. ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Brief || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Describes the outcome to be developed to meet the needs of the stakeholder. It should tell the developer what has to be done and why and contain a set of specifications and constraints that define the requirements. ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Capturing || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">The process of recording from the source to the hard drive of the computer ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">Capturing and digitising || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> Ways of bringing assets into a project ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">Colour Grading Effects || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Refers to colour adjustments made for a creative reason. ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Conceptual Design || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">A clear indication of the final outcome. Formatting and formulae notations (in the case of a spreadsheet) should be included. Usually done with pen and paper. Will be completed before the fact. ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Constraints || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Limitations/restrictions on the conditions of the development of the digital product eg resources, time, budget. ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Contrast || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Create contrast by using type, textures, and elements like lines, boxes, or graphics, that are very different from one another.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Check totals || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Included in the spreadsheet to verify the accuracy of formulae. ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">Cross Dissolve || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline;">Where two shots overlap in a sequence. Often used to link two scenes which take place at different times and/or n different places, but which are linked by content matter. Also used with titling. ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Data integrity || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Ensuring that data is accurate, valid and consistent.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Defamiliarisation || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Distorting the imge of something we see every day to make it look unusual. ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Describe || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">To identify, and give details of the software/event/technique/action and what effect(s) it has. ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Digitising || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Assets that need converting to a digital form. ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">Editing sequences || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Once the clips (audio, video, still images) are placed on the timeline they can be rearranged into a desired order ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Explain || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">To account for something/to provide reasons, i.e. how and why. ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Enhance || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">To improve, make more effective. ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Evaluation || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Determining the success or worth of something. For example, the following questions could be part of the evaluation of a project:
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">does it function as it should?
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">does it solve the problem and address all the requirements of the brief?
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">has it been checked for readability, legibility and presentation?
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">is it accurate?
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">is it consistent, ie does it match the design/plan?
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">has the documentation been completed?
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">have modifications been noted and explained?
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">External Standards || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">External Achievement Standards are not marked by anybody in school. NZQA marks these standards. There are two types. Type 1: Exams you sit in the hall at the end of the year. Type 2: These are completed in class but are sent to NZQA for marking. You will receive your marks for all of these types of standards in January the following year. ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">Fade out and fade in. || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> Used to move from one scene to another. Generally used to communicate a calm, relaxed sense. Used to show a passing of time. ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Fitness for Purpose || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Used to judge the ability of an outcome to do the intended job in the intended location. That is, does the outcome resolve the issue identified and meet all the requirements of the brief does it meet the requirements of the target audience? ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Forced Perspective || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">This is when there is no sense of distance between different sized objects, so they look completely out of proportion with each other
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">Hard cut || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> The move from one clip to another without a transition effect.. This includes a ‘cut to black’ ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Harmony || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Harmony in visual design means all parts of the visual image relate to and complement each other.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Hierarchy || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">The use of size, weight, placement and spacing to express the parts of the page or document and their relative importance. Each level of the hierarchy should be signaled by one or more cues, applied consistently across a body of text. ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Identify || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Give an acceptable name/label. Distinguish between. ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Importing || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">An asset that is already in a digital file is imported or ingested into the editing software. These must be in a format the software understands ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Incidental inclusion || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Where something is included in a photo, video, etc in the background and is not the main focus. ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Internal Standard || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Any Achievement Standard or Unit Standard that is completed in class and is marked by your teacher and then moderated by another teacher. ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Justification || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">A clear rationale that supports the selection of a tool or technique. For example,
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">magic wand used rather than removing background with eraser as it is faster
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">custom shapes used as it is quicker than creating the objects using the line tool. ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Kerning || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">This is an increase/decrease in spacing between two characters (letters) ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Legibility || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">A measure of how easy something is to read. A legible document will have a typeface that is clear and appropriate for the target audience. For example,
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">how easy is it to distinguish/recognize one letter from another?
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">is the text instantly recognisable? ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Moderation || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">All internal Unit or Achievement Standards are marked by your teacher and then someone else must check their marking to ensure you have received the correct grade. Sometimes NZQA request some work to be sent in to their moderators for checking also. ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Multi-page document || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Document that is two or more pages long. ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Organisational requirements || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Documented policies and procedures or commonly accepted practices of the school. ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Plan || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">To decide on or arrange things in advance.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Presentation || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Refers to the look and feel of the document. For example, have the design principles of harmony, alignment, contrast repetition, proximity and balance been applied, is there a system of text hierarchy? ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Proportion || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Proportion is the relationship of two or more elements in a design and how they compare with one another. Proportion is said to be harmonious when a correct or desirable relationship exists between the elements with respect to size, color, quantity, degree, or setting. ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Proximity || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">The Principle of Proximity tells you to put related items close together physically. Things that aren't related should be farther apart. The amount of separation between items or groups tells your reader how the material is organized. ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Purpose || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">What the digital outcome is trying to achieve. That is, why the document is being produced. ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Readability || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Ease of comprehension of the text.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Referencing || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Acknowledging sources of information, graphics, audio etc. Eg Although it is not a requirement of any standard, students should be acknowledging and referencing sources, e.g. attributed quotations and references list (bibliography) in an accepted format such as a simplified American Psychologist Association (APA) approach. ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Relevance || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">The condition of being connected. eg. The information given has something to do with the overall document ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Reliability || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Knowing that the facts are true and correct ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Repetition || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Or consistency, means that you should repeat some aspect of the design (eg. Font, graphic, etc) throughout the entire document. It controls the reader's eye and helps you keep their attention on the piece as long as possible. ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Rotoscoping || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">an animation technique in which animators trace over footage, frame by frame, for use in live-action and animated films. The tracing of moving images.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">[] || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Specifications should provide guidance for evaluation during and at the conclusion of the project. || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Electronic versions must be saved in a format that is accessible to users. ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Sequence || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Refers to visual direction, or how the eye moves or is lead through a page layout. It could be in relation to size or scale (big/small), shape (soft/hard; simple/complex), tone (light/dark), use of fonts (serif/sans serif; bold/light) or texture (detailed/plain). Without this the page may appear erratic and lacking in flow and direction, which hinders its message and impact. ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">Software Applications || Computer programmes designed to perform a group of coordinated functions, tasks, or activities for the benefit of the computer user ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Specifications || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Define what the outcome will look like and how will it function.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Stakeholder || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Those who are directly or indirectly impacted by the digital outcome. ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Target Audience || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">The specified group in society for which the digital outcome is designed or to whom the finished document should appeal. ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Testing || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Conducting an investigation to provide information about the quality of the outcome. For example, does the project function as it should, does it actually work? ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Testing Procedures || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">A documented plan that the student creates and will use to test their digital outcome for fitness for purpose and functionality. ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Typography || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">the style and appearance of printed matter. ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">User Document || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Word processed or electronic document that tells a user how to locate and use a web page, database etc.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Workflow || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">In order to ensure the outcome is developed as efficiently as possible, careful organisation and management of assets is therefore crucial. This is where efficient workflow plays an important role.Workflow includes aspects of planning and file and asset management. ||