THE TECHNOLOGY I HAVE USED MOST THROUGHOUT THE PRODUCTION OF MY MAGAZINE.

Q6. WHAT HAVE YOU LEARNT ABOUT TECHNOLOGIES FROM THE PROCESS OF CONSTRUCTION THIS PROCESS?

Camera• I used a camera when taking for my magazine. I used a professional photography camera that belonged to the college.

• I took thee photo’s in a photography suit so that my pictures would look more professional and have a more model like feel.

• Our teacher explain to us how to set out all the other equipment that will help the camera take photos, she also explain how the at the flash lights.

• I also learned how to adjust the light setting to match the models skin colour so you get the best picture.

Apple Mac

• I used both a Mac and a Windows HP, I did most of the construction of my magazine on the Mac as I had access to one in college. Where as I did most of my research and other work on the windows as it was what I had access to at home.

• I only new the basic skills on a Mac so I learnt how to do a lot more things and learnt how to use new programs. I also learnt how to screen shot on the Macs this made my blogging work easier as it is harder to screen shot on a windows.

• I found that I preferred to do magazine related work at college as the Mac had all the right software and programs to cater my needs, although when I had to work on my magazine at home I sometimes had issues with transferring my work back to the Mac.

Software

MicrosoftPowerPoint/Word• I used Microsoft Word for quite a few different tasks but it was all

mainly for my blog, for example I used word to back my work, for questionnaires and to make drafts before I added colour and other things. I also used it to check my spelling and punctuation for my blog.

• I used Microsoft PowerPoint mainly to make slides that would later go on my blog as well, I did this as to add another way of reading on my blog so that it looked more visually interesting.. I used slide share to convert my PowerPoint’s.

• I found it easy to use PowerPoint and Word, so I used it for a lot of things.

Photoshop• Photoshop was the first new software I had to use and that made it

very difficult.• After a while of using Photoshop I became more confident in using it

and it meant I was apply to try all new different things to further my skills and you could also see that the quality of my work improved.• I used Photoshop to design my front cover, contents page and the

background of my article. Some of the skills I learnt to use were.• Using layers to edit photos and when adding new things to the page.

• Using the magnetic lasso to help cut out the background of the model.

• How to edit photos such as adjusting colours and removing imperfections in the picture.

• The effect I used the most was layering as I did not only use it for editing I also used it to help back up photos I was editing encase I messed up.

• I really enjoyed using Photoshop, I found looking and working out how to use all different types of techniques was very fascinating. Also since it was my first time using Photoshop I found it all very exciting.

InDesign • InDesign was most probably the hardest software for me to use. I found it very hard and couldn’t get the hang of it for quite a while.• As it was my first time using InDesign and I didn’t understand it like Photoshop this meant it took me longer to do things with my article.• A skill I learnt in InDesign is how to link pages from Photoshop to InDesign. I used this skilled for the background of my article.• Also another skill I learnt was to colour code my layers so I new exactly what was what.• In the end as I used InDesign I got better at it and I started enjoy using it.

Internet

Word press

• Word press is a free blogging site. I used this site to blog all my media.

• I found it very easy from the start so it made blogging easy.

• The thing I found most helpful was that you could go back an edit posts if you needed to.

• I found that I could re-read old post that I did to help me remember things.

• Also I learnt how to embed YouTube videos into my blog. This meant I could show what tutorials I used to help with Photoshop and it also meant I could also add things my teach had shown us.

Slide share

• I used slide share to convert all my PowerPoint's so that I can use them on my blog.

• After my photo-shoot I converted all my photos into a slide share so that I could explain why I didn’t use certain pictures and why I used others.

• I also used slide share to do quite a bit of my evaluation. It made my evaluation look better visually and it was easier because all the information could be in one area.

• This was the first time I used slide share so it took a bit of time for me to get the hang of it but also learnt some new skills that helped improve my media blog.

Overall• Overall I would say that I learnt the most skills in InDesign and Photoshop. I also spent extra time on these things so that I could help increase the stand of my work.