BBC Road Fatality map for the last decade

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/8401344.stm
This is interactive and useful and has lots of data

Poster Specifications

• You will make the poster in Adobe illustrator in CMYK.
• You will create and use a restricted set of swatches of no more than 5 colours.
• You will use the slogan:
• 'It's not a game you're dead!'
• You can break this over two lines so that, for example, the top half of the poster says 'It's not a game' and the bottom half 'You're dead!' you can also add ... to the top line as 'It's not a game...'
• You will be given the text for the safety slogan.
• You must leave additional space for the logos of SDC, ESFRS and the Police and Ambulance Service as well as the Sussex Road Safety Partnership.
• You must also leave space for the web link:

http://drivetime.sussexdowns.ac.uk/

You will make a finished version as an AI file and then make a second version of this file with all of the type outlined (Type>Create Outlines).

You will ensure that:

• all of your images are vectors
• You can work in RGB mode but then convert before final saving so that everything is saved and presented as CMYK in the final version
• All text is outlined
• All logos are present
• The strap line is present
• The web link is correct and present

Your work will be submitted in a named folder at:
R:\IT Submissions\Progression Diploma in IT\Unit 3\Poster

You will submit a finsihed poster by  12pm on January 15 2010

Any additional information for the poster will be placed on this blog before the deadline.

Poster Design

As part of Project 2 your are required to design a colour poster to form part of the general awareness campaign for young people

Working with your chossen theme your brief is to design a poster to raise awareness, in young people, of the dangers associated with your theme.

The specifiaction of the poster is as follows:

Size - A3
Orientation - Portrait
Application - Illustrator CS4
Workspace - RGB initially convert to CMYK before commit to print
Images to be in vector format - no bitmap
Layout - at designers discretion making allowance for up to 5 logos and a single tag-line - using text and images to convey the message
Lead - poster needs to be attention grabbing and convey the awareness message with clarity and impact
Evidence - written blog with record of progress, comments and feedback

Research structure 1

Base your initial research on a UK focus.

Ensure that you have some hard and factual basis to what you find:

you need to get facts, figures and stats to provide you with some evidence for what you are going to make.

Take the figures you have found and cite them with the name of the source and the URL e.g:

Figures for road deaths through drink and driving in the UK 2007-8:

x hundred

- Road Safety Report, Department for Transport, H.M. Govt.

www.uk-govt/deptfortransport/road-safety/report0708.html

This is obviously a made up example but shows you the structure of what you might use in your research.

You can also make the URL active using the 'Link' button on the text editor. THis will make hte source immediately and easily verifiable.

The next step will be to make an easy to understand and dramatic illustration of the information so that it can be included on the site we make for the college.

First session on identfication of subjects and research

The following subjects and students were identified in this session for research:
Matt:
Sound systems, body modification of cars and poor vision

Alex N:
Speeding and Racing

Gary:
Wreckless driving and not using seat belts

Peter:
Drinking and driving and using phones and texting while driving a car

Andrew:
Games and Films as a bad influence and driving unsafe cars

Aarron:
No licensse, tax, insurance adn driving with an over crowded car

Dan:
Joy riding and stealing cars

Alex D:
Distracting behaviour and showing off

In put from interested parties:
ESFRS, Police, Amublance Service, Personal Tutors, Parents, Survivors

Audiences:
College students, Personal Tutors, Parents, Police, ESFRS, Lewes, Brighton and Hove and East Sussex Councils, School Teachers, School Pupils

Organisations:
Schools, Charities, Safety Services and Governemtn Organisations

Project 2: DriveTime posts will be made here

This blog will act as the focal point for all Project 2 work and the individual students' blogs will be accessible from this page.
On this blog all work will be announced and documented.