Q6: What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?During the process of making my product and displaying all of my work that went along with it. I have used lots of new a different technologies. And I have used some of these digital technologies as via technological convergence to research real life products, record my own data, edit my own content and distribute and present my work whether it be audio, textual or visual imagery. And doing all of the from the same machine. And this use of technological convergence is not uncommon in real life products especially in smaller niche magazines as it reduces publication and editing costs as it can all be done by the same person.

Blogger is an online programme that allows a user to create a profile and an online blog to post a multitude of things on. I used this to present all of the work for my media coursework and found it very easy to do so as there are lots of different features that enable you post different formats of content. And I think that this was vital for the publication of my documents.

Photoshop is piece of software used to edit pictures in. I used it to edit all of the pictures I used in my magazine and also to construct the layouts and final pages in. I found it a little tricky at first because there are a lot of different tools that can be used to give different results, nevertheless once I got the hang of it became very simple to get professional looking results. However using it proved time consuming as processing the image files can sometimes take some time and complications where easily taken place.

Slide share is another online application; that was used to transform Microsoft Word and PowerPoint documents into smaller documents that could then be embedded into blogger. This was very useful as it meant I could use different programs , applications and software and still be able to distribute everything via blogger. However it can take sometime for a post to download and then embed into blogger as it is a third party application.

Prezi is an online application that is used to create presentations to display work on. It was very similar to Microsoft PowerPoint but had more features that allowed you to create more fun and dimensional presentations. Using Prezi for the first time was challenging as it was difficult to navigate around and understand what each of the features did, once I had fully grasped the basics i found that the end results where presentations of work that featured a narrative aspects as you can use frames and arrows to guide th4e reader through them, this being very useful for incorporating images and text.

Microsoft PowerPoint is very similar to word but with this you can break up the section of content easily with the use if slides. You can also animate the slides to add different ways of presenting content. I used word on some of my written work as it was good for pieces of text that where best presented when they where broken down in sections, then onto the slides I could add headings and images. However again like word, it can be very boring and dull to present lots of work on.

Microsoft Word is a basic application that is used to write word documents with the inclusion of pictures and some simple graphic features. Using this software was however extremely helpful as it features lots word précising aspects like spell and grammar check . I carried out all my word tasks on this prom first (unless it was a PowerPoint) and then moved them onto other applications like Prezi and slide share. However the end results are usually very boring and are not good when large amounts of word content is being presented.

SOUNDCLOUD is an online application used solely for audio files to be distributed on. A user creates an account and from there can follow others and post there own content. I used sound cloud record a voice clip of me reading out one of my pieces of text for evaluation. I liked doing this as it helped break away from all of the visual data and was very easy to use. I think this was an easy yet successful use of a technology.

Canon is not a piece of software or a programme it is a product. Canon are a camera company and this was a piece of technology I used to take my picture on for my magazine. The camera I used was a ‘Cannon 550D’ dslr (digital single-lens reflex). I think it was key to getting the professional look for my pages that I used a professional standard camera as it would give optimum results. Also in the market research I found that the majority of people in the survey preferred visual content over textual content therefore getting good quality images was vital to attracting the desired audience.

Facebook is a form of social media that I used as a way of publish my pages to collect data from a focus group. I made a small private group within the website and posted my front cover , contents and double page. Here member of the group then commented on the successes of the pages and what they thought about them. Then i was then able to analyse and interpret this into data for audience research. This was very easy to use and took minimal effort, and was effective colleting large amounts of data quickly and efficiently .

And finally I used a pen drives or a USB stick to save files onto and take home with me. A USB is in essence a very small portable hard drive that I found very useful as it mean I could easily take any work home with my, finish at home and bring back again. However using USB sticks can prove tricks as they easily brake and can be lost.