Unit 39

Undertake Image Asset Managment


The organisation would first they would make sure before capturing any images that the data isn't copyrighted then they would then download then image they may use it straight away if the don't they would then edit it and save it in a different format they may want to do this at the start because of compatibility issue they would then upload the image online in their name so they need to make sure that the work isn't copied.

The principle of colour management is to make sure that the colour is cross device compatible it may work on one device but it won't on a over that is why it is important to manage your work to make sure that the colours work on all devices use programs like colour scheme designer and other programs to make sure that the colours that you are using work on all devices.

You could duplicate the master copy to make sure that if the original gets lost then you have a back up storing the master copy off site would be a good example storing a hard copy on a flash drive these are all ways to protect your data from corruption ect.

You may have certain images that are more important than other for example payslip file is more important than a background file so it is important to prioritise these with categories the highest you duplicate copies and store them off site or get flash copies .

Servers are ways to protect files because they have a backup generator if there is a power cut for example is a power cut and you working on a project you saved it on your pc but there is a power cut your more likely to lose the page than if you have it saved on a server.

For example if you needed to make image larger then and you needed to keep the image integrity the same then you would lock the image on photoshop i talked about this in unit 35 and then that would keep the pixel dimensions the same and enlarge the image you would also duplicate a copy of the image so if you do something wrong then you have the still have the original file still in tact.

You need to sure that the colours used first work on all devices and websites second are to the customer liking by comparing them with other website and the companies brand and product your able to determined if the colours work or not.

You would look at the colour profiles before starting to plan what colour schemes they have used for example they may have use orange and blue then you need to use then colours when designing the image because that their colours you don't want to use opposite colours because they won't work and the client won't want that as a product.

You need to categorise all of the work to make sure that certain images get archived compared to other you don't want to archive a picture of a cat for example because it isn't relevant to the business but you will want to archive the company logo or business pictures because they are relevant to the business which can help more if you lose the original copy.

You need to add caption to images because it tells a description of the image like i said on unit 35 a caption is like a narrator telling you what the image is about that is why it is important it tells the reader what the image is about compared to just the image alone, the image alone people may not understand what the image is about where it was taken a caption describes that image.

As i said in other units copyright is vital if you designing a logo for a money making company so it is vital to make sure you have a copyright on an image before you submit it and also don't copy any logo or designs if you wanting to make money from the company.

You need to watch the images coming in or out of your website to make sure that all monitored have a report button on your website if any images come in that are inappropriate so that the company or yourself can take action against that user taking them images off the website and banning the user which will decrease the chance of this happening again.

If you had archived copies of data you could bit lock the device this means that you have to insert a password before you can see the data this would be useful in a business environment but you can only use it on windows professional and higher which can cause compatibility issues also you could only store it on 1 hard copy to save material and store it in a safe offsite.

You could save your work on a server off site this is better its more secure incase anyone breaks in and steals the hardware the copy is safe and sound off site you could produce a hardcopy and put it in a safe off site this would be useful if their was a fire as the copy would still be in tact off site.

you need to record all the date of any incoming or outgoing traffic to make sure that all data is protected and you know the date or time of data being stolen because if you have data and you record it you keep backups of the images you still can record what be going on with them images at that time.

The data protection act is the main type of legislation that is relevant to the asset management because you need to protect data from anyone that gets their hands on it that is why it is vital to have security in place so that certain people can see that document an other legislation is the copyright make sure that your data is protected before putting it online.

Like I said in unit 35 tempering with the health and safety signs you mess around with the signs tamper it at all it can be a breech in the health and safety act and you could face prosecution an other example is eye strain sitting at the computer for two long can cause eye strain do a dse test before using the computer.

Make sure you do a risk assessment before doing any work because you will have problems when you have employees evaluate any risks say what will happen if them risks happen and how you will combat them issue which can decrease the chance of an injury in the workplace.

Like I said above doing a risk assessment will show up any problems that have occurred and where you can fix them by getting a health and safety executive to make sure that any problems they can fix them and then if there is a problem in the future they can fix it.

you need to make sure by using a contract that all work is being followed if not you have the contract to tell them that they are going wrong and where they can improve on.

you need to check with the copyright laws to make sure that the image isn't copyright and if it is what you need to ask their permission before doing so.

like I said in unit 35 you need to sure that any pictures that have been uploaded won't offend anyone and won't hurt anyone before putting the image online.

Unit 35

Undertake Technical Adjustments of Images

• In the visual arts, colour theory is a body of practical guidance to colour mixing and the visual impacts of specific color combination. There are also definitions (or categories) of colors based on the colour wheel: primary colour, secondary colour and tertiary colour. 

• In Technical Compatibility is when you can have certain image formats used on certain HTML's for example if i had a website which i have and i would use .png because this format is better because it can display a background for the image.

• When designing an image you need to take in consideration the file size pixel e.g.  dimensions,resolution. the file size is determind by the image size the pixel dimension and the resolution pixel dimension is important when creating your image. Pixel dimension is the amout of pixels on the screen for example I have an image that is 5 px by 5 px i increase that to 10 px hight and width you are increasing the pixels on the screen this can effect the image because you download a image that is 250 px hight and width you increase that to 1000 px that going to lower the quality it going to make your page blurry this is because the image has been extended and not very attractive you can use dimension locks on photoshop where you can lock the image and then make it larger without effecting the quality this means that the resolution stay the same because this means there will not be any blurring in the pictures quality. resolution the the quality of the image it is what I said before a picture that is 250 px has a better resolution than if you increase it to 1000px.

• Resolution is the number of pixels in a linear inch—pixels per inch (or PPI), but it is most commonly referred to as dots per inch (DPI). The more pixels, or “dots,” per inch, the higher your image resolution will be.

• With color images, each pixel can be one of 16 million different colors. For black and white images, there are 256 gradations of gray pixels ranging from black to white: 0 (black) through 255 (white). More pixels means higher resolution, which creates better image quality because you end up with more realistic representations of color, better gradations of both individual colors and gray tones, and crisper images in general.

Unit 27

2D Animation for Interactive Media Products

• The main use purpose of computer animation in interactive products is to make the page stop being static which is an effect to the viewer to stay on the precise page so there is a good chance of more viewers. Or it could be to draw the viewers eyes away from the page for a second. . They are mainly used in banners. For example on my website i have used 2D animation at the very top of my website to make my logo roll across the screen to try and grab the viewers attention.

• The main techniques used in 2D animations are frames and tweens which can be created in Adobe Flash CS5.5. A frame is a still image and by having a lot of frames together it makes it look like the image is moving smoothly but the rotation and movement has to be slowly turned and moved to a slightly different position. To make the image move you would make a tween between a large group of frames. To increase the speed of the animation you would increase the amount of frames per second. To create these animations people use Adobe Flash.

• People's expectations of animations have increased a lot over the years since technology is improving fast and is improve so fast this is because the technology used today is more complex. This means peoples expectations are very high and the technology has evolved to making things a lot easier to use. Since i am not an animator my animations obviously weren't going to be perfect so I made quite a simple and complex animation which I then put on my website.

• To save my animation I saved it as a Flash File but I also had to export it as a movie otherwise it would not work. This would then allow me to put it on my website. If I had any changes that needed to be made I would edit the flash file then save over the exported one. My animation matched the theme of my website and wasn't to flashy. This means it doesn't look different not confusing to understand.

• When creating the animation it is important to name your layers so you don't get confused on what part is for what otherwise you will get confused and move something that you don't want to. It is also a good idea before you start creating your flash animation to import all the image files/sound files that you will be using throughout the animation this will ensure that you will have all of the stuff you need.

• The animations that will be created in my website will either be a DVD or in Blue Ray or you could make both but have them different side of the page this will then tell the viewing audience which one they would buy and what category they are in.

Unit 25

To produce a copy for interactive media

• When creating a website or blog you will be wanting to make it look attractive for your target audience because it will help it to get further. This nears that your constraints will depend on what type of audience you are aiming for. For example if you were to make a website for a professional company you aren't going to make it in girly colours with flowers etc... You are going to want to make it look simple, stood out and professional. This can be annoying for designers as most designers have there own style and may think some things look better then others. This means that no ideas can be took and to make it the way they would like it and clean.

• When using a content management system there can be a lot of issues. The main issues you will encounter will be the coding issues because you may or may not understand fully the right coding to use for the software. This can be a huge problem since it would effect the whole website and give you a lot of problems where as if you made a mistake using HTML you would only have to change the small mistake you made in for example Filezilla or WIX. There are a lot of advantages while using content management systems though. The main advantage of using a content management system is that it is if u put the wrong thing in you can easily replace it with the right document which is very easy to do and get used to even if its your first time on using it.

• When making a website it is very important that you keep the same style through out the whole website. This means that the text and colour scheme should stay consistent throughout the design. This means if you use Arial Black on 75% of you pages and Times New Roman on the other 25% your website if going to look very un-proffesional because it will make the website look very un-professional. You must also make sure that you check your grammar, punctuation and spelling before posting anything online as this can make employers think different about whether to employ you or not with the amount of mistakes made. When adding text on your website as the main content it would be a good idea to space it out (add a few of images and maybe links as well). No body wants to read a huge block of text as most people would just find it boring they would like it to stand out so they will get more attracted the the website. When typing your text you are going to want to make it accessible for every one. Im not saying to dumb it down but don't use huge words which no one has heard of etc, this would make them not want to carry on with what they were reading about. It would also be a good idea to add in hyperlinks with your text content. For example if i mentioned my portfolio i could link it from the word portfolio so people could go take an interest in the design and to have a look to know what exactly what the portfolio is about. Along with the grammar and spelling it is very important to include appropriate captions / descriptions to go along with the content.

Unit 24

Relevant contacts within the industry

• The contacts that are relevant in my industry are that the design/product this help design the work or product and who helps with this is the client/developer and this plans on how to make the product and they would make rough sketches before hand to make sure its what they want and what helps them with the money business and this is called client/finance and these help with paying for the equipment and if anything is destroyed so it can be replaced to keep on track.

• In the maintain established business the contacts are organised and have a very important role in working together playing their part by in the industry to keep you as part of the industry so nothing will happen when everybody plays their part right. And if there is something being produced everybody in the industry all business would like to know about just so they know what they could do to help them with what they need to do.

• To participate with relevant networks you are expanding your expertise and you had done a project for a business that is reliable and very successful with a verity of skills and the project was successful they would talk to other companies and they could trade ideas with in another type of business so then no one has to struggle with what they are doing and how they could help them on it if they have nothing to do them selves.

• By participating in networks and expert organisations to support being a freelancer will help yourself to be promoted within the industry. It will also allow you to attend different events that take place within the organisations. When going to these events it would be a great idea to being business cards or flyers with you to exchange with any other designers or new clients.

• Since i am finishing my job here at distinctive as an apprentice in design i have thought about ways to promote myself. One of then set ways is by using a lot of social media to show others the work i have produced. By linking my portfolio on my Facebook page which allows people to look at my work and if they enjoy it they could share that link from that page which would then lead to me getting more views and then could lead to more work being produced.

• There are a lot of different systems available to get in touch with you when there is new work available waiting to be produced by somebody. For example there are industries that you can sign up to within the creative media sites which they would then message you when work was available to apply for so you will have a chance to show u can actually do something useful for the company.

• In the last paragraph i talked about different websites that would message you when there was new work available. These sites can potentially be classed as agents as they find you work because they know how to sort things out and who to give the projects to. By signing up to these websites i am representing them by finding a job to help their company get more attention. Another way that i could find different agents would be to look for different creative media companies online in my area.

• Websites like design crowd have the feature to comment on your work this lets you know what negative and positive feedback that has been given to you. This means that on your work that you have posted on the site you will have to change the design or make a few changes to it if yo want to of course. Since i have posted a lot of my work on my Facebook page i am able to get feedback from there as well, people are able to comment and give feedback to any of the images that i have uploaded. This will give me the opportunity to see what i have did wrong and know how to change it for next time.

• As a freelance designer it is important to work flexibly to suit my hours. This means not to spend to much time working or spending to much time in your personal life which may or may not cause problems. Its about finding the right work to produce every so often in your work. But when work needs to be done it is better to get it out of the way. For example if i knew i had a project due in in 3 days i would organise my time so that i know i would have everything finished in time.

Unit 07, Unit 09

Unit 07 – Creative Industry Awareness Unit 09 - Awareness of Health & Safety in the Creative Media Sector

• The industry in the creative media section are designer people and they will design stuff like magazines, logos, websites ect. you have web designers who just design web content, you have developers who is somebody who takes them designs and produces them into a fully functioning website, you can also have programmers on how to take designers and programs it into a piece of software ect.

• In an organisation you may have a web designer and web developers this is cross industry you taking two different jobs and making them collide in the same workplace this is very common in the creative and digital media sections because you need designers to communicate with developers and if they work in the same workplace then there going to get to know each other which can make their communication skills be much more advance than employer in two different workplaces.

• Designers need to have a good working relationship with developers because they both have role to do the designers need to design the product and the developers need to make sure that they code the designers they both need to have an opinion what will work well what won't work act.

• The first person in the creative media project cycle is a planner a planner is someone who plans an ideas which can then goes to a designer the designer designs the products then you got the developer who takes them designs and turns them into a fully working product and finally there is the consumers who evaluate the product and can give feedback which the planner will read so he can improve in the future.

• It depends a design company aims might be to make the best looking design for their client at the cheapest price which can cause more business a developer company may want to product the most function product with the least bugs which will cause more business in the future.

• A specific team will have a better relationship than anyone else in the working environment they work together more they have to communicate more compare to anyone else where they may only see them when there entering the building or at brakes or lunch.

• You have a leader or a supervisor who supervisors who watches whats going on they are a sub managers they do the job as a manager but on a smaller scale there is designer and developers who work together to product the best designs.

• The planner has to make sure that the product will work before sending to the designer the designer has to make sure that the designs look professional and eye catching the developer needs to make sure that the product is fully functioning and has the least bugs as possible.

Unit 06

Ensure Your Own Actions Reduce Risks to Health & Safety


Key hazards in the workplace


Here are hazards for tripping:

• A tripping hazard could be that there are loose wires in the middle of the floor and somebody could trip and injure themselves and could claim off the company or it could have been purposely put there by somebody.
• Another hazard is that there could be shards of glass lying around the floor and somebody could trip and cut themselves and could claim for that as well if they are injured.

Here are hazards for slipping:

• A slipping hazard is that if there is water all over the toilet floor somebody could slip and bang their head of the floor or the wall and they could get a concussion which could damage the brain.
• Another hazard is that there could be an obstruction on the stairs and that they could slip and fall down the stairs and could brake bones and cause damage to different parts of their body.

My responsibilities in the work place for health aand safety

• My responsibilities in the work place are to make sure i do not have anything on the desk near the computers otherwise if the drink was spilt it could cause a problem with the computer,  Unless it has a resealable lid or cap to stop a hazard in the work area. Another thing i do to avoid risks and hazards is to make sure i don't leave my bag in the middle of the floor otherwise somebody will trip and fall which is another hazard in the work place. I have always put it under the desk at my feet so people don't trip up while passing my seat. Another responsibilities of mine in the work place are to act responsible and respect the equipment. If i was to knock one of the computers over it could potentially brake on the floor and smash and i would have to pay for the damages. Since i am a graphic designer i do not have to wear any sort of uniform, but i wear clothes suitable for my work place for example: smart and or casual clothes. This means any clothing that makes me comfortable just not anything inappropriate for example: if it was tracksuit bottoms and trainers. This is because designers need to feel comfortable in what they wear while at work to keep them calm and concentrated to actually get on with their work.

Procedures for dealing with risks outside the scope of own responsibility, identifying the appropriate personnel with whom to liaise in own workplace

• When at work there is a certain person if there is a problem.

Here are some examples of problems:

• Say if there was a fire somebody could get injured from:
• From burning
• From falling

It is important that everybody in the workplace knows what to do when a fire occurs is to follow every instruction that has been given, if i was in a situation like that i would make sure everybody in the building including myself obviously and while getting everybody out i would alert my boss to ensure him the state of the purpose he would help with getting everybody out safely and calm. Once everybody was out i would ring the fire brigade to stop it so the building will not collapse.

Rubbish has a potential to be a hazard because somebody could trip and fall into some wires which could cause an electric reaction and cut the power and could cost the building money. This would not happen if it is disposed of properly.