A part of their Digital Literacy course in Year 8 students explore Photoshop and in particular are asked to create a piece of album art in the style of a particular music genre such as punk, rock, reggae, classical, RnB, disco etc.   Students research the genre and try to draw out the codes and conventions of the graphics that align with that genre.  Part of the creative brief is that they have to include an image of themselves in the design somewhere but it is up to them to what extent they appear.   Here are just some of the results from this year’s work which have been picked because of their attention to detail, reflection of the intended genre and imaginative use of the designers own image..