WHAT HAVE YOU LEARNT

ABOUT TECHNOLOGIES

FROM THE PROCESS OF

CONSTRUCTING THIS

PRODUCT?Evaluation Question Six

When first starting my magazine

research I had to set up a blog fro

my coursework. I used ‘Blogger’ in

which all pieces have been placed.

Blogger has been useful as it

allowed the embedding of various

other sites and enables easy

alterations to be made any time for

example via phone.

SlideShare has been increasingly

useful when uploading PowerPoint's.

As the site creates an interactive

approach to the presentation of the

PowerPoint. It had been used

efficiently when embedding the

HTML onto my blog and can be

viewed effectively by the reader/

audience.

Prezi is creative presentation

software and has been used various

times on my blog. It creates a more

creative approach in which

coursework can be viewed

effectively. For example , it has been

used for an evaluation question

rather than writing it up as a long

essay on a blog site.

Microsoft Excel had been used to

create graphs, for my research and

planning, questionnaire. This was

used to present the results more

effectively rather than the use of text

and percentages, whilst this created

a pie chart in which can clearly

differentiate the results from the

questionnaire.

Scribd had been used when word

document needed to be uploaded.

This had been rather than constantly

writing on my blog posts; Scribd also

allowed alterations on the layout of

texts, in which could be presented to

the audeience.

PowToon had been used for my

evaluation question; it differentiates

from other sites I have used as this

creates a more exciting way to

present information to an audience

, in which music could be included

(which was in reference to the

magazine genre)

ADOBE PHOTOSHOP

Photoshop is an image manipulation program that allows me to

edit the photo's I'd taken, it was extremely useful in the

development of my media product and made possible images

which simply couldn't have happened previously. While this may

not immediately seem beneficial for my magazine, I can tell you

that it taught me many skills such as using the various tools on

Photoshop and without this my magazine would not looks as

good as it does now. Below is the link to the website containing

the tutorial I followed and you will see how various tools are

incorporated into it.

ADOBE PHOTOSHOP EXAMPLES

The outline can be easily

recognised on the firsts draft of

the magazine in comparison to

the final magazine spread (on

the right), many alterations of

colour scheme and cropping

had to be done.

When in the process of my double page spread, I had

to erase the background of an image completely. I did

that through draw plus as school. I had been able to

use draw plus as I’ve had to use it in previous

subjects, but I didn’t know how to cut away at a

background. I learnt very quickly and found it a very

easy process and it was successful.

I used a memory stick to transfer

work from school on to my memory

stick so I could work from home. I

had Adobe Photoshop and InDesign

on my laptop so I found it very easy

to do alterations at home as it was

just the same as doing it at school. I

had a webcam I could record for one

of my questions and I could also

access You tube from my laptop. I

used my camera to take pictures for

my magazine for the double page

spread. The image on my front cover

and various images included within

my magazine, I was provided with a

camera from the school department

in which took high quality images

within a studio room, that guaranteed

good lighting and props if necessary.

CONCLUSION

Overall technology has helped me with my task of

creating a front cover, contents page and double-

page spread in numerous ways and without it; the

end product I created would be considerably less

professional and of a lesser quality. It would have

also resulted in me being less organised and

showing less cohesive and clear

research, planning, skills and evidencing.