Question 6

What have you learned about the technologies from the

process of constructing this product?

During the planning and production of my media product, I

used technologies such as: Adobe Photoshop

Slideshare

Quarkxpress

Blogger.com

Adobe Premiere Pro

Adobe Photoshop

Adobe Photoshop allowed me to manipulate photographs that I had taken and be more creative with my

product. I am very familiar with Photoshop, and have used it before, so I used it to create my front cover and contents page. Photoshop allows

you to be a lot more free with images because it is a program

specific to that. I have been able to blend images into one another using

Photoshop, and also select people within the image to leave the

background behind.

I created this in Photoshop

using the gradient tool

Quark Express

Quark Express is a more unfamiliar program to me, and so it was difficult to use during the production process-

I used it to design my double page spread. I don’t really understand and like this program, maybe because I’m

unfamiliar to it, but I found it confusing and I couldn’t be as free and creative as I wanted. It was a

good program to use for layout design and setting everything in the right

place, but when it comes to pictures and fun elements, it wasn’t the best.

I created this

using Quark

Express

Blogger.com

Blogger was the best way to document and keep track of my progression through Media. It is a great site to use, I could refer back to previous

blogs of work, edit them, manipulate them and keep a steady track of

what I was doing easily.

This is a screen shot of

my blogs.

Slideshare

This was a great site to enable questions like these on PowerPoint,

to become a series of slides that others can view on my blog. It was simple to use, with an easy process.

This is a screenshot of one of

my questions.

Adobe Premiere Pro

This program enabled me to successfully capture and edit my interviews for question 5. It was simple to use and worked well on

the computers. I uploaded my video from the video camera in to this

program and exported it, so it was ready to embed.

Through using all of these programs, I have developed new skills and

learned more things about each one.