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

The technologies I have used for my AS courseworkI have used a wide variety of technologies when creating my music magazine, including Adobe Photoshop, Adobe InDesign, Blogger, digital camera, Microsoft Word and PowerPoint.

Photoshop- I have used Photoshop for my other subjects. It’s very useful for me to use because I could use it very well. However, during the process of making Amuzine I have learnt a lot more skills on it, in order to edit my pictures and fonts. I have used tools such as magnetic lasso tool, magic wand, paint bucket, horizontal and vertical type tool and experimented with colours such as hue and saturation.

Digital camera- I used to play on digital cameras before. I would like to take pictures when I see good views. I knew many basic knowledge of how to take a professional image. So at the time I need to take pictures for the music magazine I was quite confident about it, and I think I did well.

The technologies I have used for my AS coursework

Recorders (podcast)- I have used this before. I think this is a technology I have to know how to use for my AS coursework. I can interview audiences by using the form of audio and even for future.

Microsoft word- This is a software I am frequently using in daily life because it can help me to do the correction on my English writing. I always had spelling and grammar mistakes because English is not my first language.

Microsoft PowerPoint-I have frequently used this software in my AS coursework.

IMovie (video)- At the beginning of the year, we learnt many things about film and filming. I used this technology to help me finish my practice task which is to produce a short film. I had also use iMovie for on of my evaluation parts.

InDesign- I enjoyed using this for the first time, because it has given me a far better understanding of other ways in which you can design with technology. I used InDesign to help me create my double-page spread and it turned out to work really well. I struggled with it at first but then learnt how to use the tools in order to move text boxes to be equal to others, edit the double-page spread pictures as a background and create two effective pages that worked well together.

Blogger- This is obviously a vital resource in order to create the music magazine, and it proved to be really useful in order to gain audience feedback, record our progress, compare it to others and keep us organised. This is a new skill that I have learnt and have thoroughly enjoyed using blogger and hope to use it again in the future as I feel confident with what I am doing. It was fun to be able to customise our own page, and I learnt how to use other tools within it, such as polls. These were helpful in order to obtain feedback from my peers on how to improve my pages. It was useful to be able to post my pages as JPEG and write comments to track my progress and look back to what I have done in previous weeks to see how I improved.

Prezi- I never used this before. I was using this for one of my evaluation parts.