iMedia Hardware and software

When creating pre-production documents, both hardware and software will be required. Name five items of hardware and five types of software that might be used.

What hardware devices would be used to make a script?

How would each item be used?

Designers often use more than one display when creating graphics, and storyboards and visualization diagrams often require sketches to be made. What specialist input device might they use for creating graphics?

Which pre-production documents are often created on paper?

What hardware can be used to digitise them?

Give three examples of documents that would be better to digitise with a digital camera rather than a scanner.

What type of software is Apple Pages, Microsoft Word, Google Docs, and LibreOffice Writer?

• Image editing software

• Presentation software

• Word processing software

What other more advanced software could be used for visualisation diagrams?

What are some examples of raster and vector image editors?