Lesson 7: Giving Credit - Part A
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Unit 1
How Am I Influenced by Images?
Lesson 7
Reader's Notebook
Giving Credit
This selection is about opening credits in a TV show, and how the designer creates them in order to capture your interest. Opening credits usually take less than 30 seconds, so the designers are very careful with their work.
Click each coloured row for information about the activity.
In this selection, on pages 78 to 83 of Literacy in Action, you will learn how an opening credit sequence is created, and about the creative directors who work behind the scenes. Notice the storyboard format the designer is
using.
A storyboard uses panels, images laid out in borders on the left hand side of the chart.
Frames are the edges and borders or the chart that contains images.
Layout shows how the story progresses. Images are grouped in order beginning with number one from beginning, to middle, to end of the story. They show the order in which images should be viewed.
Answer the first section of questions in the Reader's Notebook: Giving Credit.
A storyboard uses panels, images laid out in borders on the left hand side of the chart.
Frames are the edges and borders or the chart that contains images.
Layout shows how the story progresses. Images are grouped in order beginning with number one from beginning, to middle, to end of the story. They show the order in which images should be viewed.
Answer the first section of questions in the Reader's Notebook: Giving Credit.
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Read View Like a Designer in the blue box on page 78 of Literacy in Action.
As you read the selection:
Answer the second section of questions in the Reader's Notebook: Giving Credit.
As you read the selection:
- Keep this idea in mind – What does the designer's choice of images tell you about the show and it's characters? – consider the descriptions and visuals used in this credit sequence.
- Study the storyboards and compare them to the final versions, in the photos below each one.
Answer the second section of questions in the Reader's Notebook: Giving Credit.
Answer the third section of questions in the Reader's Notebook: Giving Credit.
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- Have the file open and select Save As from the File menu.
- Name your Reader's Notebook: Giving Credit in this format: jsmith_givingcredit and save the file to your Documents folder.
Formative Assessment
- This worksheet is similar to homework, which is an opportunity to practise important concepts in the lesson. The worksheet is NOT for marks.
- However, your teacher may ask you to submit this worksheet to check on your progress so be sure to save it in your Documents folder.
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