Which piece of hardware is most appropriate for typing the text of a script?
Keyboard
A magazine team has made a large physical mood board on a wall that includes 3D objects. They need to share it digitally. Which hardware is most suitable to digitise it?
Digital camera
Why might a designer use a graphics tablet with a stylus when creating artwork?
Pressing harder makes the brush stroke thicker
A graphic artist is creating a complex digital image and wants to see the full design and the edited detail at the same time. Which hardware setup is most useful?
Two displays
A production team needs to create an asset log that can be sorted and filtered by asset type. Which software is most suitable?
Spreadsheet software
A production company wants to create a storyboard digitally and insert still images into frames. Which software would be most suitable?
Storyboard software
A designer is creating a wireframe layout for a website. They need to work quickly and use specialist tools. Which software is most suitable?
Wireframing software
Which software is often used for scripts because it makes editing the text easy?
Word processor
A student wants to create a digital mind map using dedicated software. Which software is most suitable?
Mind mapping software
A designer has sketched a poster on paper and wants to keep working on it on screen, drawing over the top of the sketch. Which hardware is most suitable?
Graphics tablet
Why might a flat-bed scanner be better than a digital camera for digitising a flat page of printed images?
It scans at a high resolution with no shadows or lighting problems
A designer is creating a wireframe layout for a web page on a desktop computer. Which hardware do they need to move the boxes and type the page names?
A mouse and a keyboard
A designer is creating a visualisation diagram for a film poster and needs to add and edit photographs from an image library. Which software is most suitable?
Image editing software
A production team needs to digitise a 40 page handwritten storyboard quickly. Which hardware is most suitable?
A scanner with a sheet feeder
A designer is making a digital mood board and wants to put each image on its own page so it can be shown to a client in order. Which software is most suitable?
Presentation software
Which term describes the physical parts of a computer system, such as a keyboard or monitor?
Hardware
What is meant by 'software'?
Programs and applications that run on a computer
What is the name for a device that lets a designer draw directly onto a computer using a stylus?
Graphics tablet
What is meant by 'digitisation'?
The process of converting a physical document into a digital format
Which term describes software used to arrange text and images on a page for magazines and brochures?
Desktop publishing software
What is meant by a 'dedicated application'?
Software made for one specific task, such as a script editor
Which of these is dedicated software made for creating flow charts?
Microsoft Visio
Which piece of hardware can be used with a stylus or pen in the same way as a graphics tablet?
A touch screen
Which hardware would a design team use to create a large hand-drawn mind map together during a meeting?
Pens, pencils and paper
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