2011 School Magazine

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^, i" Digital esign ShoLLicose This annual evening showcase of Year 10 digital works was once again a wonderful event for students and their families. The student projects are developed over four weeks and incorporate the use of industry software such as Adobe illustrator, Adobe Photoshop and also a digital SLR camera. Attendees at this year's Digital Design Showcase were very impressed with the quality of the student work presented and enjoyed listening to Merri Randell from QANTM College talk on her

twenty year international career in digital design and communication The People's Choice Award saw over two hundred attende submit their votes to decide on their favourite composition. The winner this year was HeIen Rex (IOH), who received a Wacom multi-tou h tablet as a prize .

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o' , appealed to s, analysed the of ects used in these vid clips and experimented with how they could be manipulated or reproduced In ou own videos. We are fortunate at our School to have industry standard software availabl to us such as the Adobe Creative uite and various others. Combined with the wise input of our technology teachers we successfully created extraordinary products .

the end product being a website creat in WordPress set up to be used and searched depending on the client's needs In Term 11 we undertook a group task - the creation of a DVD cover and promotional trailer for an upcoming band This task was my favourite. Despite hav g a lot of documentation, it allowed us to express our creativity and was relatively open to interpretation. Throughout the research phase, we sourced videos that

development projects which both spanned several weeks. in Semester I we developed websites for an authentic client of our choice - upcoming bands, home businesses, medium sized companies and tradespeople from not only Brisbane but all over Australia With the assistance from the ITS teachers, we established professional relationships with our clients. We completed design, development and evaluation phases with

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