Multimedia Projects Grading Guidelines

Overview: To help clarify the expectations of your multi-media project, please refer to the general grading guidelines below.

Communicates Message (30 Points) – the creator effectively communicates a message with the collective parts of the multimedia project.

• If it is a flier, the message promotes an event/group/organization. 
• If it is a slideshow, the message tells a story and showcases creator’s photographic and graphic design skill. 
• If a Prezi, the message tells a story and showcases creator’s photographic and graphic design skill. 
• If an Infogr.am, the message explains a topic/issue through use of text and graphics. 

Uses technology/multimedia to communicate message (20 points) – uses photos, audio, video, or online presentation.

• If product is a flier, it uses a QR code or Aurasama to link video to flier. 
• If product is an online presentation such as Animoto, Infog.am, or Prezi, the project uses multimedia to communicate message. 

Duration/Contents (20 points) – The project meets appropriate length requirements.

• If a flier, the flier contains all of the appropriate who, what, when, where, why, and how information. 
• If a slideshow, it is made up of three slideshows of at least 30 seconds in length. 
• If a Prezi, the presentation has three different parts: Photocomposition (6 to 10 examples of student work), Story Telling (a story in a narrative structure with beginning, middle and end) and Graphic Design in Your Future (explains how student will use graphic design/photography skills in their future) 

Professionalism (30 points) – Project has essential reference information, labels and transitions.

• Presentation includes appropriate labels (titles, descriptions of rules of photography, credits) 
• Presentation uses transitions (uses either visual (graphic or text) or verbal transitions between different elements of story.