I have learned about various technologies from creating a music magazine, including WordPress, YouTube, Microsoft PowerPoint, Microsoft Word, Photoshop, Windows Movie Maker, SlideShare, Prezi, Internet Explorer, Google Chrome, Facebook, Sony Camera, and iPhone. These technologies helped with tasks like blogging work, recording and posting interviews, creating presentations, editing images and video, gathering research, designing the magazine layout, and obtaining feedback. Being able to access materials anywhere online and produce professional, multimedia end products taught valuable lessons about the media industry.

1. What have you learnt about technologies from the process of
constructing this product?

2. I have used varied types of technologies when making my music
magazine. Each one of them has helped me along the way to produce
my product in specific ways to complete the project. These
technologies are:
Wordpress
YouTube
Microsoft PowerPoint
Microsoft Words
Photoshop
Windows movie maker
Slideshare
Prezi
Internet Explorer
Google Chrome
Facebook
Sony Camera
iPhone

3. Wordpress is the blog I use to post
all my media coursework so that my teacher
can easily see what I have done and how
much progress I’m making. I think that this is a
lot easier than having a hard copy of each
single one of my work because you can access
it anytime and anywhere. This also helped me
along the way when making my magazine
because I can easily access my past works that
I have done and look back in what I’ve written
on a specific area.

4. I have used YouTube when interviewing my
focus group. This site was really helpful
because it allowed me to post the video’s I
needed and without it I could do not post
video’s onto the blog. Another advantage of
using this is that it is easy to operate and
the video’s can be access anywhere either
by a computer, phone or tablet.

5. I have used two software's of Microsoft –
PowerPoint and Word. These two software's
does different things allowing me to complete
the work I needed to do for this coursework. I
have used PowerPoint to create presentations
that was used in my focus group to show in my
first drafts. I also used the software to illustrate
different existing magazines. Moreover, I used
word in all the research I have made. This
software was really helpful because I can make
draft notes of all the research I have made
before transferring it into my blog.

6. I have used Photoshop to edit my official images. I
think that this is a very good software to use because
it allows you take make your image look professional
from the effects and filters they have. This software is
used a lot in the media industry including existing
magazines. It has a lot of filters to use that will make
your images look professional like other magazines.
Moreover, I have used this software mainly to create
my final product of my music magazine. It was very
useful because you have control of every layer that
you put on the page allowing me to manually edit the
magazine of how I wanted it to be like.

7. I have used Movie maker to edit and add sound
effects of the interview I did with my focus group.
This was a lot more interesting than just uploading
an unedited video because you can add effects on
the video such as adding transitions between each
scene, effects and filters on the clip/image, and
add backing track and sound effects. Not only can
you edit your video’s onto here you can also add
images. The video’s can also transferred directly
onto my blog or either YouTube.

8. I have used two types of presentation that was then
placed onto my blog. These makes the blog a lot neater
because everything is placed onto a presentation instead
of having to scroll down to read things. This also makes
reading more interesting from the theme’s being used
and colours to attract the readers. Slideshare is used to
either transfer PowerPoint presentations such as this one
or notes from Microsoft Word. Prezi is different from
Slideshare as Slideshare can put documents and work
into a presentation whereas Prezi it is done manually. It
is an alternative of slideshare but you have to write
directly on the website and you can also use themes and
add images and sound onto it much like a PowerPoint.

9. I have used Internet Explorer and Google Chrome
as a source to make my research such as looking at
existing magazines, looking at music magazine
images as an inspiration and forms of conventions. I
have also used this to go on specific websites such
as YouTube, Presentations and many more. In
additions I have also used this to look at institutions
that I didn’t know much about and has helped me a
lot as I now know more about it than I did before
and what the purpose of it in the media industry.

10. I have used Facebook to get feedbacks about my
second draft magazine. This was really useful as I
got a wide range of audience to comment on
what they like about it and what they don’t like
about it and to also how to improve on it. This is
an easier way to communicate with people and
to get hold of them as it is a very popular social
network that everyone goes on and look at as
part of daily routine.

11. I have used Sony DSLR and my iPhone to capture
images for my magazine. I used my professional
camera to take my official images that were going to
be used on the magazine as this brings out a better
quality. I then used my iPhone to capture images of
verbal feedback of sheets from my peers that they
have annotated, and this was then published on my
blog.