What have you learnt about technologies from

the process of constructing this product?

Question 6.

I used WordPress to design a blog which had all my media work of my music magazine. This is where I was able to upload all my research, planning and evaluations of my final product. I found the site very easy to use once I got on with it. Everything was pretty straight forward and I was bale to be creative with it as it looked like my own website.

Using Prezi was one of my favourite things as it was something I could use to present my work differently. It was not had to use I had used it before with some of my work in the past. I used it to create a mind map sort of presentation which I thought made my work look much more interesting to read.

I used a camera to take my own pictures for my music magazine. This was for originality so that I didn’t have to use pictures from Google or something as they were not mine. By taking my own pictures I was able to choose where I wanted to take the photos in terms of mise-en-scene. I also had to think of the kind of model I was choosing and how they would help represent my magazine positively.

I used Photoshop to actually design my music magazine. I found this hard at the beginning as I was not too familiar with Photoshop even though I had used it before. Using Photoshop make my magazine made it look very professional and look very similar to an existing magazine. I also used Photoshop to edit my pictures. With this I was able to change the appearance of my pictures if they were too dark for example. Overall I found this to be one of the most important piece of technology I used in producing my magazine because without it I wouldn’t have been able to produce something so professional.

I used three different Microsoft Word softwares. Firstly I used Microsoft Publisher to produce my first magazine in my preliminary task. This was rather simple as I had used this software before. I found that if I had used this software to produce my final magazine it would not compare to the high standards of using Photoshop.I also used Microsoft Word during my research process to make notes and keep information of the different things I needed to produce my magazine. Lastly I used Microsoft PowerPoint in the beginning my research to analyse magazine covers, contents and double page spreads. All of these different softwares helped me to achieve different tasks within the processing of my magazine.

Google was a very usual resource throughout my project. I used it to research a lot of information about various existing magazines. I was able to gather all the necessary information I needed. For my preliminary task I was able to search for appropriate images that I could use for my magazine as that time I could use pictures that were not mine. I could access it really easily through my laptop at home and also at school which wasn’t a problem. Most of the information I got hold of was from being able to access Google which really helped me a lot to produce my final piece.

It was my first time to use Youtube actually making a video of my own and uploading it. I had used Youtube many times t .listen to music etc. but being able to make my own video was very interesting. I used Youtube to upload a video I had made of my focus group during my research process. This was another way of presenting my work which worked very well. I was quite pleased as the site was quick and easy to use. Uploading the video didn’t take time at all, however I think I could have made my video better quality.

Using Movie Maker was actually quite hard in my own opinion. It allowed me to upload and edit my videos but editing them was not that simple. I had to cut some bits off and add text and also background music to make my video a bit more professional. I found that there was not a wide variety of editing transitions to choose from. I could also mainly access this software at school as I didn’t have it on my laptop at home in order for me to edit my videos.