Tutor: Nuala Naughton
Dates: A 10-week evening course starting 17th September 2008
Location: Glasgow Metropolitan College, North Hanover Street, Glasgow (opposite Queen Street Station) from 6pm-9pm
Cost: £100 per person
Who should attend:
The course is for anyone working in, or planning to work in, newspaper and magazine production as a sub-editor or editor.
The text manipulation parts of the course will also suit people wanting to work shifts where no page design is involved and raw copy is handed out to be subbed and slotted into pre-drawn spaces using QuarkCopydesk - for example, Saturday night news subbing for one of the Sundays.
Content:
The course covers the fundamentals of QuarkXPress (QXP) applied to newspaper and magazine production. The principles can also be applied to book production, although the course does not cover this in detail.
Artistic and typographic principles of page design and layout are outwith the scope of the course.
Qualifications:
It is assumed that students will have little or no knowledge of QuarkXPress or similar programs.
Students should have a working knowledge of general computer skills like basic typing, using a mouse, pointing-and-clicking, dragging-and-dropping knowing how to select text and cut, copy and paste. It is not necessary to be familiar with Apple Macs.
Expected learning outcomes:
Students will be able to draw up pages for publication, apply their sub-editing wordcrafting skills using QXP and import and manipulate images.
Skills covered:
Moving around within text, keyboard shortcuts, drawing picture and text boxes, colouring boxes, backgrounds, texts and frames.
Indenting, modifying text and creating style sheets.
White (or tints) on black, tracking, kerning, baseline shift and using all the major tools within the software to enhance stories on the page.
Wraprounds, linking columns, drop caps, shadows and other text manipulation techniques.
Getting pictures, sizing them, fitting them in frame, cropping etc and an introduction to creating cut-outs in Adobe Photoshop.
Creating master pages, templates and libraries.
Working in QuarkCopydesk
Further courses to consider
Newspaper Text Handing (Subbing) - Your beautiful QuarkXPress pages won_t be much use if your content and headings are garbage. Learn how to get the words into a fit state for publication.
Adobe InDesign - Even though QuarkXPress remains the page layout market leader, Adobe InDesign is proving a strong competitor. It could give you a real advantage to know both.
Anyone interested in attending this course should contact Angela Austin, Assistant Organiser, to register email angelaa@nuj.org.uk or tel: 0141 248 6648
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