Tuesday 26th, January

Today we began our next project with a new lecturer, Brian Smith.

Our task is to create a creative Industries based magazine for people who are considering signing up to the course. Each of us will have to choose a subject and write an article about it. For basic research on the project we learned about page layouts, and what the different parts of them are called.

To help us understand and learn about layouts we were asked to trace a Double Page Layout from a magazine and outline the "skeleton" of the page, as well as labeling each part of it.

John's Class

One of the first things we did for this class was make a short podcast about ourselves. We made these on GarageBand. To create them we brought in pictures of the places we grew up in and of things that meant something in our lives, like our families and friends. We set the pictures up as a slide-show and then recorded narration describing what the pictures meant.

Also in GarageBand we made short pieces of music from the royalty free samples supplied by the program.

Another program we learned to use was iMovie, a simple video editing program designed for Macs.