Question 6: What have you learned about

technologies from the process of constructing

this product?

The pre-preliminary task which was my previous task helped me to gain some experience of different technologies such as Photoshop and the SONY camera which has

helped me improve on my media skills and I have been able to put these skills into action in the construction of

my music magazine.

Photoshop

Photoshop was the program that I used to create my front cover and edit the images featured on all pages. This program was

hard to use at the beginning as I used different features of the program when completing my preliminary task and so I had to

learn as I constructed my product. Video tutorials helped me a lot through this process and I feel

the ending result of my product has showed this. When constructing the front cover I completed different drafts which

shows that as construction went on I learnt more about Photoshop and the different features I was able to use and so I

kept improving the front cover over the many weeks I was constructing it.

InDesignInDesign is a program very like Photoshop. I used this program for the first

time when constructing my contents page and double page spread. At the start I found it different to move from Photoshop to InDesign

however as my construction of the two pages continued my skills and knowledge of the program improved. Again, I completed drafts of each

product and gained audience feedback which allowed me to continue to develop the two products well enough to meet the standards of my

target audience. The program itself got easier to use as I used it more and more – I got use to the cropping images tool and transform tool

which made it easier while constructing the pages. I believe my progression at InDesign worked well in the construction of my media product. Without InDesign I would have been unable to complete the contents page and double page spread so well and so Ii feel that my

skills in the program have benefitted the overall final product.

Blogger

Blogger is the blogging website which I chose to exhibit my planning, research, and construction on as it seemed the

most appropriate way to show my progression at completing a media product in the form of a music

magazine. I had never previously owned or written a blog online so this task was a learning experience on how to use

different social media websites such as blogs as I am normally use to Facebook and Twitter (skills which I used

throughout the process). I feel Blogger worked well for my task and I am happy that I learned how to use the blogging

website to show my construction of my music magazine.