Evaluation 6:

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

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:

WordpressYouTubeMicrosoft PowerPointMicrosoft WordsPhotoshopWindows movie makerSlideshare

Prezi Internet ExplorerGoogle ChromeFacebookSony CameraiPhone

WordpressWordpress is the blog I use to postall 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.

YouTube

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 postvideo’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.

Microsoft Office

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.

Adobe Photoshop

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.

Windows Movie Maker

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 directlyonto my blog or either YouTube.

PresentationI 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.

Web Browser

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.

Facebook

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.

Devices

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.