Sketching Your Own Film Poster

Lesson Objectives:

• Learn more about what makes a good poster
• Come up with your own idea for a poster

Success Criteria:

A: Wording and images are CREATIVE and EXTREMELY APPEALING to a SPECIFIC audience. The final product is EXTREMELY APPROPRIATE and PROFESSIONAL and shows an EXCELLENT LEVEL OF TECHNICAL SKILL. The audience know EXACTLY WHAT TO EXPECT from the product. MANY CONVENTIONS have been used

B: Wording and images are IMAGINATIVE and MOSTLY APPEALING to a SPECIFIC audience. The final product is VERY APPROPRIATE and MOSTLY PROFESSIONAL, and shows a VERY GOOD LEVEL OF TECHNICAL SKILL. The audience have a GOOD IDEA OF WHAT TO EXPECT from the product. MANY CONVENTIONS have been used.

 

C: Wording and images show SOME IMAGINATION and have SOME APPEAL to a SPECIFIC audience. The final product is MOSTLY APPROPRIATE and shows a GOOD LEVEL OF TECHNICAL SKILL. The audience have SOME IDEA OF WHAT TO EXPECT from the product. SOME CONVENTIONS have been used.

D: Wording and images show UNDERSTANDING of the product and TRIES TO APPEAL to an audience although perhaps unsuccessfully. The final product is QUITE APPROPRIATE and shows a BASIC LEVEL OF TECHNICAL SKILLS. The audience have SOME IDEA OF WHAT TO EXPECT from the product. SOME CONVENTIONS have been used. 

E&F: Wording and images show SOME UNDERSTANDING of the product but have LITTLE APPEAL to the audience. The final product is only PARTLY APPROPRIATE and shows LITTLE TECHNICAL SKILL. The audience have LITTLE IDEA OF WHAT TO EXPECT from the product. VERY FEW CONVENTIONS have been used, IF ANY.

STARTER:

Students to be given a selection of student made film posters from previous years, all varying grades. They have 5 minutes to identify features of GOOD posters and BAD posters. Students to come up to the board and add their own answers on to the board to make 2 lists on the board of Features of Good Posters and Features of Bad Posters.

MAIN TASK:

Students to read their planning work from a few lessons ago about their own idea for a film. Using blank paper they should draw out what their film poster will look like.

PROGRESS CHECK:

Pass your design to the student next to you. Get them to write 3 things on a post it of ideas about how you could improve it. Pass it back.

Continue drawing and colouring it in.

PLENARY:

Students to look at the success criteria and give themselves a mark for their design work.