question 6 of evaluation

1. Question 6: What have you learned
about technologies from the process of
constructing this product?

2. 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.

3. 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.

4. InDesign
InDesign 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.

5. 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.