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Edit, Interpret, Analyze, and Predict Using Market and Sales Research - correct answer
✔✔•Steps to forecasting:•Identify patterns signals, and emerging ideas •Rank information and
edit less significant data
•Offer solutions through customized forecasts or wide-ranging examples
•Predict and provide future scenarios
•Clients use the forecasts to:
•Enhance brand awareness and marketing opportunities •Manufacture goods that the
customer will want and buy
What Is a Final Forecast? - correct answer ✔✔•Create a professional-quality forecast
•Visually stimulating product
•Develop compelling script
•Two portions of a final fashion forecast:
•Visual portion •Presentation boards•Computer-generated slides•Imagery created for the Web
•Written portion
•Verbally presented to an audience through a script
•Recorded as part of a webinar
•Text on the presentation boards
Keys to a Successful Forecast - correct answer ✔✔•Create meaning by transforming data into
applicable knowledge•Forecast message must stir emotions
•Create forecast so members can anticipate how it can be implemented into their businesses
•Should have a sense of universal appeal
,•Inspire the audience to customize the message and apply to their own products
•Visually appealing boards and clearly edited information
•Visual Portion Components - correct answer ✔✔•Theme: idea, visionary theme imagery,
interpretations, analysis, predictions, title, tagline, mood, story, and abbreviated story
•Color: color inspiration ideas, color story, interpretations, analysis, pre- dictions, color names,
written descriptions for each color, color numbers, and color story summary
•Textiles, materials, trims, and findings: ideas, textiles and materials samples, interpretations,
analysis, predictions, identification of samples, and textiles and materials story summary
•The look: ideas, apparel and non-apparel images and flats, interpretations, analysis,
predictions, descriptions of looks, and the look story summary
Visual Portion` - correct answer ✔✔Layout - directs how the viewer perceives and understands
the message and meaning of the prediction•Landscape - horizontal layout•Portrait - vertical
layout
•Focal point - area where the viewer's eye is first attracted•Most important item to represent
the theme
•Dividing the layout into sections allows for several focal points •Structure of the layout relies
on fundamental graphic concepts: •Grids - provide structure•Groups - define relationships of
items
•Paths - highlight visual movement between objects
Typeface / font
Background and Color Selection
Typeface / font - correct answer ✔✔connect the message of the text with the concept of the
theme
•Choose type that is legible, well-spaced, and coordinates with the theme
,•Do not include excessive amounts of type
Background and Color Selection - correct answer ✔✔Enhance the overall theme
•Color or texture act as a unifying force
•Borders
•Backdrop
assembly - correct answer ✔✔•Begin the layout
•Shift the items to best convey the essence of the theme
•Choose a cutting or cropping technique •Traditional board - cut the images accurately
•Vintage recycling ect. - uneven or torn edges
•Attach items to the board using adhesives•Spray adhesives
•Rubber cement
•Creating a mood board digitally using computer programs
•PowerPoint
•Photoshop
•Illustrator
•In- Design
theme boards - correct answer ✔✔Begin the layout of the theme information
•Explore the emotions and meaning that they are meant to elicit
•Place best inspirational images as the focal point
•Rate the importance and address the scale and clarity of the images
•Choose an appropriate font style, size, and color for the title
•Place the title of the theme on the first board
•Additional text may also be added
, •Tagline
•Mood words Rousso-Kaplan Ostroff Chapter 10
color - correct answer ✔✔•Begin the layout of color selections
•Paper tabs
•Paint chips
•Yarns
•Fabric swatches
•Miscellaneous items
•Consistent sizes and shapes of color tabs - gives equal value to each color
•Accent colors can be cut smaller
•Place the color selections on a white or black background
•Name the colors to communicate the theme
•Consider categories of color names
•Use an established color identification system (Pantone)
•Label the color names / numbers on the board
Textiles, Materials, Trims and Findings - correct answer ✔✔•Begin the layout of the swatches
•Cut the swatches neatly and consistently
•Fabrics can be mounted onto a backing