23/02/10

today in brians class i was given a hand out about using scribus and made a magazine pge about andy worhol following the instrusctions on the hand out. after i compleated this i started to type up my article for my double page in the magazine.

09/02/10

We started with a group meeting and discussed what we would do today then went to gather as much information for our articles as possible i collected lots of information about being human and collected pictures and reworded some information about the characters and uploaded it to moodle for brian to give me some feedback on what i wrote.

iWeb

iWeb is software used to create websites.
You choose a template to follow, then with the templates it has several different pages Such as a welcome page and a page for photo's, Blogs And Podcasts.
When you are making the page you just remove the text that is already there and add your own you can change the font, the colours and the size.
You can add pictures to your pages.

GrageBand!

GarageBand is a piece of software that allows you to make music and make podcasts.

Making the music is simple and the software comes with lots of different instruments such as Drums, Guitars, And Keyboards.
All you have to do is look through all the different instruments and click and drag the one you want on to the track.

To make a podcast all you have to do is open up a new podcast episode from there you can add photo's from iphoto and you can add your own voice talking, you can also put movies on it.

iPhoto!

iPhoto is a bit of software used for storing photo's.
You import your pictures onto iPhoto and on there you can Edit them and make things with them like sideshows and calenders.
With edit tool you can Enhance the colour, Add effects, Adjust the colour and Crop.

01/02/10

Today i learned about Andy Warhol and found out we were going to make Andy Warhol type pictures, so i did some research and found some of his pictures that really caught my eye, then i got my picture taken and traced over it onto thin plastic and put it on to a projector and drew it on to paper then copied over it on black pen.

28/01/10

Today we finished our animations and sent them off to the competition.

26/01/10

Today I Learned About The Anatomy Of A Page Of A Magazine.
We Learned The Names Of Different Things On A Page.
Then We Traced A Double Page Of A Magazine And Lined It And Named All The Different Sections On The Double Page Such As A Gutter, Word Wrap, Headings And Sub-headings.