1. 1. What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product? Harry-Stephen Weedal
2. 2. HD Cameras I had never before used a HD camera until I began to produce my magazine. I had to learn the function of the camera and how to use it. I also learnt different camera shots throughout the production whilst I took the pictures, including mid shots, medium close ups, high angle shots and low angle shots.
3. 3. Photoshop I used Photoshop to product my front cover for my music magazine it was very useful and a good software that I had unfortunately only used a couple of times. Whilst constructing my product I learnt different uses of photoshop such as how to crop images by using the polygon tool.
4. 4. Quark I used Quark for the majority of my magazine production. I used it for my double page spread and contents page. To begin with I struggled to use Quark, importing images was a hassle compared to other software such as Photoshop. However it was an important software to use and without it I wouldnt have been able to create the double page spread and contents page to the standard that I did. The guidelines that were optional, were very useful as they prevented me from accidentally cropping bits such as pictures out when printed. Also it really helped with the layout of my product and kept everything even. Quark also made it clear when using the guides, how many columns I would need for my text to fit.
5. 5. Blogger Throughout the production of my product blogger was very useful. It helped me to ensure myself that I had tasks to complete for certain dates, this helped me to make sure I stayed on top of things and not fall behind, so that I could have all work completed before the deadline, with also enough time left to amend certain things and change. Blogger, was an easy software to use, it was quick and simple once I had learnt to embed codes of my production through certain websites such as 'slideshare' and 'powtoon.'
6. 6. Conclusion In my opinion the easiest technology to use for me was Photoshop, my reasons for this are because I found it much faster and easier to produce my work for example my Front Cover for my music magazine. Importing files such as images and shapes was much simpler that doing so on other software and technology like Quark. Despite this, all of the technologies were very useful and important. I enjoyed using HD cameras and discovering different ways and angles to take images, medium low angle close ups was one angle I used to present an image in my work. Despite all of the different angles I used the HD cameras still allowed me to come out with a good and effective picture to use for my product.
7. 7. Conclusion In my opinion the easiest technology to use for me was Photoshop, my reasons for this are because I found it much faster and easier to produce my work for example my Front Cover for my music magazine. Importing files such as images and shapes was much simpler that doing so on other software and technology like Quark. Despite this, all of the technologies were very useful and important. I enjoyed using HD cameras and discovering different ways and angles to take images, medium low angle close ups was one angle I used to present an image in my work. Despite all of the different angles I used the HD cameras still allowed me to come out with a good and effective picture to use for my product.