What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing the product ?

To make my product I used a variety of different technologiesI used hardware technology such as a Computer/Laptop

Digital cameraIPHONE 4SInternet explorerMicrosoft PowerPoint PhotoshopMicrosoft publisherWeb Application -Prezi

DIGITAL SAMSUNG GALAXY CAMERA

My Samsung galaxy camera was used to take pictures for my magazine it was very useful and it helped produced professional images. The camera is a digital camera so it was easy for me to see what my pictures looked like straight after I had taken them . Because the camera had large space and memory I was able to keep all the pictures I took of my model sand I was able to have the option on whether I wanted to keep or delete them . The camera allowed me to create folders so I created a folder names “ Idea images” in this folder I inserted picture that I wanted to analyse and use for my magazine .With this camera I learnt how to use it and I learnt how to experiment different effects for my photos.

IPHONE4S

This piece of technology allowed me to take pictures of my sketches and upload it to my wiki space . It allowed me to highlight the evidence of what I wanted my magazine to look like and it gave proof of me planning and researching different magazine ideas before starting off my production . Having my sketches and drafts uploaded to my wiki space put me at ease because I was able to look back at them and make comments on improvements and what I wanted to keep.

Microsoft PowerPointThis program helped me extremely because it allowed me to create PowerPoint's about the history and origin of the R&B genre it also helped with analyzing each picture that I took off my models. On PowerPoint I was able to save each slide as a JPG and directly upload it to my wiki space by uploading it as JPG from PowerPoint it made my work presentation look neat and clean . Using PowerPoint also allowed me to experiment with the background colours and make my work look more appealing, PowerPoint was a very useful software especially because I was able to upload some work straight to the web application called “PREZI” there was no trouble at all.

JPG IMAGE FROM POWERPOINT

Internet Explorer/ Web application The internet out of most technologies used I believe was the most helpful one because it was the foundation of my product it allowed me to find out information about the genre I was going to use which was R&B , the internet also helped me with finding suitable images that would suit my front cover contents page and double page spread. The internet helped me enormously with finding the correct conventions of my magazine .-The internet also helped me with how to use some software's that I wasn't familiar with example Photoshop I looked at some tutorials on YouTube to help me with the basics and also Excel to create my questionnaires , the internet was a great help because without my research and planning wouldn't have turned out as I wanted it to .

The web applications –PREZI and Wiki space helped be a lot throughout my process of constructing my product , because it allowed my work to look presentable (PREZI) . The web application Prezi consists of different templates to chose from and it allows you to customize your own presentations how you want , by using Prezi it made me feel comfortable and confident on how to show evidence of my step by steps my analyses of different pages included in my magazine and also my evaluation questions. The wiki page was the foundation of my product , it has helped me throughout the process because it has allowed me to add my images my drafts my analyses and it hasn't been so much trouble its been easy to use and understand.

Microsoft publisher

The software Microsoft publisher helped me when designing my practice IT layouts on my front cover and contents page . The software includes various colours that I was able to customize by myself in order to include to my magazine I was able to experiment different colours and positions of how I wanted my contents page to look like.

Photoshop

I didn't have so much Knowledge on Photoshop but as I watched tutorials online I realized that Photoshop would give my magazine a good professional look because I was able to format and layout my pages well, also I was able to experiment fonts that I wasn't familiar with . Using Photoshop I was able to manipulate my images Photoshop gave me the chance to crop away the bad bits of my chosen images it also allowed me to make my models face seem very clear which gave it a professional look . The tools on Photoshop(rectangle tool) allowed me to separate some texts and make my page organised

Overall technology has helped me with creating my magazine in different ways , because without the software involved wouldn't be able to draft my ideas or make any pie charts (questionnaire) . The technologies I used helped me organise and format my ideas ,evidence ,planning and research very well .