This document contains information about various graphic design, radio, and video game production experiments and assignments. For a graphic design poster assignment, the student learned Photoshop skills and how to incorporate images into backgrounds creatively. For a radio advertisement assignment, the student edited sound effects and learned audio editing tools. A video game assignment taught the student animation frame techniques in Photoshop for creating their own game. The document reflects on the strengths and weaknesses of each project and compares projects to professional work.

1. Production Techniques
Evaluation
Your Name

2. Graphic Design Experiments

3. Graphic Design Production
• Advantages of working in this medium
The advantages of working in this medium are that it has taught me how to use
Photoshop and to create a piece of work using it. Photoshop also lets us create a
piece of work that can be made to our imagination because we can put images
onto certain backgrounds. This makes our work creative and unique.
• Disadvantages of working in this medium
The disadvantages of using Photoshop are that it takes time to get the hang of
using the tools if you’ve never used the tool before this can take up a lot of your
working time. It can also be difficult to create the image that’s in your head and
for it to look realistic using Photoshop.

4. Graphic Design Production
Similarities differences
The similarities
are that both
posters have
slogans, they both
have a vintage
photo on the
poster, both have
coca cola on
them. Also both
posters have the
colour red on
them which
makes the posters
recognisable that
they are
advertising coca
cola.
The differences
are that the
slogan on my
poster is more
noticeable than
the slogan on the
actual poster. My
poster has more
going on than the
actual coca cola
poster.

5. Graphic Design Production
Strengths
The strengths in my
poster are that I have
cut pictures of coca
cola cans onto an
ordinary photo to fit
my slogan. Also I still
have my vintage
theme by having a
vintage logo and the
125 year anniversary.
Weaknesses
The weaknesses are
that it doesn’t look
very professional,
looking at it now I
think it would look
better if the
pictures were joined
together like my
college poster, the
red colour doesn’t
match the logo or
the anniversary
photo.

6. Radio Production
• Advantages of working in this medium
The advantages of using this medium are that you can edit the effects you have found
to suit your needs, for example for can make them fade away when the advert has
finished so its better quality instead of sounding like its been cut off. Also you can cut
out the parts of the sound effects you don’t need or want which makes it better for
your piece of work.
• Disadvantages of working in this medium
The disadvantages of using this medium are it takes a while to get the hang of using
this piece of software to edit your sounds, and it can take a while to find what tools do
and which tools to use to make your work better standard. Getting the hang of using
this piece of software can take time which could mean less time to work on your piece
of work. It also took time to figure out and download the effects from the internet,
and to find the right sound effects.

7. Radio Production
• Similarities differences
• Both adverts are linked with summer
and spending time with friends.
• Both adverts are linked with coca cola
and are both linked with slogans about
spending time together and
celebrating.
• Both adverts have upbeat songs to
keep people happy and to recognise
the brand by a song or slogan.
• Both have people having sun and
spending time with each other.
• My radio jingle is more festival
themed than hanging around
with friends.
• My radio jingle is more lively
and updated than the other.
• The radio jingle made by coca
cola has an older song than my
radio jingle.
• Mine doesn’t have a group of
friends, it has people at a
festival letting loose rather
than relaxing.

8. Radio Production
Strengths
The strengths of my radio
advert are that the
background music
worked well with the
theme, the cheering also
worked well with the
theme also I liked the
way that the sound
effects of the coke bottle
and can overpowered
the rest of the noise
when they opened. And I
think it worked well how
there was silence when
the slogan was sais so it
was recognisable
Weaknesses
I think there might
have been too much
going on I the
background, even
though it was recorded
somewhere quiet. I
think it would have
been better if
recorded someone
who doesn’t have such
a strong regional
dialect because it ca be
quite hard to
understand.

9. Video Game Experiments

10. Video Game Production
• Advantages of working in this medium
The advantages of working in this medium are that it taught me how to use an
animation frame on Photoshop and it taught me how to create my own game which I
had never done before. This will help me if I go into advertising.
• Disadvantages of working in this medium
The disadvantages of working in this medium were that it got very stressful making
the game because if you moved a layer too quickly it would make the motion look odd
so you’d have to delete that frame and start that frame over again. Also when the
game reset after you lost a life you have to take a few frames of it re setting otherwise
you wouldn’t notice it reset which took time.

11. Video Game Production
Similarities differences
• The similarities are that both
screenshots of 8 bit games have a
building with someone on it.
• Also the characters are both 8 bit
pixel.
• Both screenshots show how many
lives the player has.
• Both have basic backgrounds, nothing
too complicated and no layers have
too much detail to look overly
realistic.
• The differences are that the games
work differently.
• In wreck it ralf the game is for felix
to fix what ralf broke, in my game
you have to jump off the building
onto the coke can.
• My game has a coca cola can in it,
wreck it ralf doesn’t.

12. Video Game Production
Strengths
The strengths of my advert game were
that the game ran smoothly and is easy to
understand the game. The building and
trees look realistic. And the purpose of
the game was quite obvious.
Weaknesses
I think my game could have been more interesting and could have had
more detail, I could’ve made my branding of coca cola more realistic by
replicating the logo design on the can.

13. Comparison
• Which product do you believe advertises the product the best?
Why?
I think the radio jingle advertised coca cola the best because it had the
sounds of cans and bottles opening which most of the coca cola
adverts have, it also had a slogan that coca cola use to make it
recognisable and it had music and sounds to make people feel good
and coca cola do the same.
• Which of your products is the most professional? Why?
I think the radio jingle was also more professional because, my poster
wasn’t amazing because it was the first time I had used Photoshop,
and there was other people to help make the radio jingle who all had
different skills from each other which was useful. Also having other
people help make it made it better and more professional because it
had different peoples opinions and ideas in the jingle.