• Note down your original ideas.
• Produce storyboards/page designs.
• Choose (and note down) what sounds, images, and animations you need to find and/or manipulate, and the sources of the sounds, images, and animations you use.
• Choose (and note down) how much text you want to use.
• Choose (and note down) what suitable software you will need to use to produce the presentation and to manipulate the sounds, images, and animations you include.
• Think about (and note down) ways of linking your ideas.
• Consider (and note down) how much you want users to respond to your screens of information (e.g. the use of a navigation sidebar; feedback screen that allows users to email JB Sports).
• Think (and note down) how to allow for those responses.
• Decide whether users should be able to backtrack to earlier screens.
• Prepare production scripts/text.
• Decide how to finish your production.
• The design process should take up approximately 50% of the time required to complete each task.

• Once the design process is completed, the design should be implemented.
• For Task 1, students must work individually.
• For Task 2, student must work as a member of a group. Each student should take on an identifiable element or section of the presentation, and must be able to be identified as its author/originator.
• The implementation process should take up approximately 30% of the time required to complete each task.

Evaluation.

• Once completed, each task must be evaluated by the students and – where possible – an independent evaluator.
• The evaluation should include a description of any problems encountered and ideas and/or suggestions for improvements and developments.
• The implementation process should take up approximately 20% of the time required to complete each task.

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Task 1

Produce an on-line retail website selling directly to the public via the Internet. The website should include images, sound, animation (text and/or images), and interactive hotlinks/hotspots.

Once completed, the following documentation must be handed in:

• A copy of the design notes.
• A script or program.
• Annotated printouts of the pages and/or slides.
• An evaluation of your presentation.

Assistance with Task 1

Produce draft designs by hand for a suitable website. (You can use your previous design if you wish to but you may need to add an on-line order form or a search facility or a site map)

Examples of websites include ProSportuk, JD Sports, and Cotton Traders.

Produce a written description of the work needed in order to complete the assessment. Your description should include details of the following:

• The hardware you will use.
• The software you will use to implement your designs. (You are strongly advised to use a web authoring program such as MS FrontPage - this includes suitable pages and basic website designs)
• The source of any images you will incorporate into your design.
• The specific tools/techniques within the software and the purposes for which you will use them (e.g. font size/style, colour, lines).
• An indication of your timescale for completing the assessment.
• The filenames you will give to each stage of your production and the folders in which you will save your work.

Produce the website using the tools indicated in your written description.

Save your website at each stage of production.

Print your website (including html) at each stage of production.

Annotate to show the tools and techniques you have used, indicating any changes you are making to the original design.

Write a short evaluation on this assessment. Consider the following:

• What difficulties did you encounter?
• If you were doing this assessment again, would you use the same tools/techniques or would you try other methods? Why?
• Did you find anything particularly difficult? If so, how did you overcome the problems?
• Print screen dumps to provide evidence you have saved your files in a suitable folder/directory and that you have made backup copies of your data files.

What you must hand in

• A front cover entitled ‘On-line retailing website for JB Sports’. Insert your name and the date.
• A written description of the work you proposed to undertake in order to complete this assessment.
• A copy of the design notes.
• A script or program.
• Annotated printouts of the pages and/or slides.
• An evaluation of your presentation.
• Evidence you have regularly saved your work using sensible filenames in appropriate folders and that you have produced backup copies of the files.
• Appropriate folders, and that you have produced backup copies of the files.

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Task 2

Produce an interactive infomercial about sports-related products. This should be able to be sent out to on disk to sports journalists, possible product retailers, and sportsmen and women. It should include images, sound, animation (text and/or images), and interactive hotlinks/hotspots.

(N.B. The infomercial can be a web-based presentation or a slide-based presentation)

Once completed, the following documentation must be handed in:

• A copy of the design notes.
• A script or program.
• Annotated printouts of the pages and/or slides.

Assistance with Task 2

Organise yourselves into small groups.

Individually produce draft designs by hand for a suitable infomercial. The originator of each design should be identifiable. Make sure that each design is copied and given to the other members of the group.

An example of an infomercial website includes Lucozade.

Agree on a design that combines ideas from each member of the group. Split the task of producing the infomercial into sub-tasks. Agree which member of the group is going to produce each part of the infomercial. Record these decisions, and make sure that each member of the group gets a copy.

Produce a written description of the work needed in order to complete your part of the assessment. Make sure that each member of the group gets a copy.

Your description should include details of the following:

• The hardware you will use.
• The software you will use to implement your designs.
• The source of any images you will incorporate into your design.
• The specific tools/techniques within the software and the purposes for which you will use them (e.g. font size/style, colour, lines).
• An indication of your timescale for completing the assessment.
• The filenames you will give to each stage of your production and the folders in which you will save your work.

Produce your part of the presentation using the tools indicated in your written description.

Save your part of the presentation at each stage of production.

Print your part of the presentation at each stage of production. Make sure that each member of the group gets a copy.

Annotate to show the tools and techniques you have used, indicating any changes you are making to the original design. Make sure that each member of the group gets a copy.

Write a short evaluation on this assessment. Consider the following:

• Did your group agree on the final designs for the presentation? If not, what difficulties did you encounter and how did you compromise?
• If you were doing this assessment again, would you use the same tools/techniques or would you try other methods? Why?
• Did you find anything particularly difficult? If so, how did you overcome the problems?
• Make sure that each member of the group gets a copy of your evaluation.
• Print screen dumps to provide evidence you have saved your files in a suitable folder/directory and that you have made backup copies of your data files.

What you must hand in

• A front cover entitled ‘Infomercial for JB Sports’. Insert your name and the date.
• A list of the people in your group.
• A written description of the work you proposed to undertake in order to complete this assessment plus copies of the descriptions written by the other members of your group.
• A copy of the design notes plus copies of the design notes written by the other members of your group..
• A script or program plus copies of the work done by the other members of your group..
• Annotated printouts of the pages and/or slides plus copies of the pages and/or slides produced by the other members of your group.
• Evidence you have regularly saved your work using sensible filenames in appropriate folders and that you have produced backup copies of the files plus copies of the evidence submitted by the other members of your group.
• Appropriate folders, and that you have produced backup copies of the files plus copies of the evidence submitted by the other members of your group.

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Backups

There are a variety of ways in which you can save back-up copies of your work. These include:

Saving copies (not originals) of your work on to a storage media (e.g. floppy disk, CD-ROM, CD-RW, separate area on the computer's hard drive);

Saving hard copies of your work (i.e. printed copies);

Setting the computer program you are using to 'autosave' your work (see a step-by-step set of instructions for setting computer programs to 'autosave' your work by pressing the Help button or Help icon on the toolbar and searching for 'autosave'. Be careful - not all computer programs will 'autosave'). This will create a back-up copy of each file as you work on it.

Manually saving copies of your files with different files names (e.g. 'Copy of .....').