Evaluation Question 6What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?

Above is an image I created using a website called Fotor Editor. It shows all the digital programmes and websites I used. This includes Survey Monkey, Blogger, Photoshop, InDesign, Scribd, SoundCloud and SlideShare. These websites and software heavily influenced the outcome of my product and helped me develop my skills on programmes I haven’t used before such as Photoshop and InDesign.

Using SurveyMonkey, I was able to research my audience in detail and ask questions about what they would like to see in the magazine. I researched what artists and genre of music would be the most successfully sold. This website allowed me to get an average of each answer and helped influence my magazines look. I learnt that this was a very straight forward website to use which gave me good results when I was planning my magazine.

Furthermore, Photoshop was used very heavily in this process to help manipulate the photos I’d taken. I resized the photos to enable them to fit on my magazine cover, contents and double page spread. I also added a gradient in the background to highlight the other tools on Photoshop and imply that the model was the main focus in the issue of the magazine. I learnt that this is a hard software to use but, if used with experience and with the knowledge on how to use it properly, it can create amazing results.

In addition to this, I used SlideShare and Scribd to allow different media formats to be used on my Blog. It ensured that I could use Microsoft Word and PowerPoint to complete my work. This made it more intriguing for the audience viewing my blog and gave it a sense of diversity. These were also easy to use but I found finding the embedded link hard to find, mostly it was on the other page.

Moreover, Soundcloud was used to voice one of my evaluations. I expected it to be easy to use and it was. It also helps the audience by allowing them to listen to it rather than having to read a lot of text. This further gives my blog diversity in using media formats.

The camera I used was a new camera and therefore gave my image good quality. However, I think that the model could have had better lighting in the photo to ensure that it looked more professional than it does. I would have had to use studio lights to make the models features stand out more.