This is the first unit that we study and gives you a foundation for the rest of the course and will make up 20% of your overall grade. As this is a coursework unit, there are 12 weeks of learning with practice assignments to help you to get to grips with the topic, followed by 6 weeks of coursework workshops where your “real” coursework will be monitored, then marked.

Visual Identity and Design covers the foundations of graphic design and digital art where you’ll be investigating branding, designing your own character, editing photographs, and using your designs for magazine covers and more. This unit focuses on tools, techniques, and skills of creating digital graphics for a particular audience or scenario. Although you will be creating some digital graphics as part of the coursework for this unit, you are also required to write about the work that you have created.

The coursework for this unit is marked out of 50, with 30 hours of lesson & homework time with another 10 – 12 hours of coursework. 

We cover this unit first as it includes topics that are seen again in the Animation and exam units.

Each year there is a new “live” set of tasks for you to complete, so you must complete your NEA in the deadlines that are set.

As part of your course, you will be given a set of practice assignments to try for each unit before completing the live NEA.

How I Authenticate Your NEA

The OCR Exam board requires you to produce your coursework in medium conditions. This means that I must supervise enough of your coursework (NEA) completion to allow me as a tutor to confidently confirm that the work you submit is entirely your own.

This means that:

• 5 hours of your coursework will be completed within our live lessons.
  • These are compulsory and cameras must be on for these lessons.
• Work is completed on a weekly basis through my Google Classroom to show how it has changed over the term and includes tracking data.
• All work will be checked using a plagiarism checker before marking.
  • I recommend that all students check their work is below 10% using a checker such as Grammarly