In 2010, before we had started these projects, we were given the task of recreating the following film review:
In order to do this, I had to research different tutorials for the software and experiment with getting to know the software.
The videos I used include:
What is QuarkXpress?
Understanding Items and content
Understanding relationships between items
These videos then allowed me to attempt to recreate the first review example:
Although this attempt was not perfect, the purpose of the task was complete and I was now capable of using QuarkXpress. Now, in 2011 I have re-run all of the videos I used last year and attempted a new short recreation task before attempting our actual ancillary product. This was a Magazine cover:
Overall, I now feel I am ready to attempt a first draft of the group's magazine film review using QuarkXpress.
*Update
This is a screen-capture of me using QuarkXpress to edit the draft of the magazine review:
