Evaluation 6

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

New technologies have enabled me to achieve my task as cameras helped me get the right image and access the images much more quickly. Cameras helped me achieve my task as it helped me get the right image for the right page in the magazine. After these photos was took I was then allowed to use different effects on the pictures which made them look better when they were on the magazine. Taking pictures using a camera is easier and makes the magazine look more professional whereas if there were no cameras you would have to get photos elsewhere and glue them on the magazine which would look fake and you would not be able to make them look effective.
Being able to use Photoshop and Quark Express it has helped me with the different effects I have been able to use on my magazine and also my pictures. Using different effects like the gradient tool has allowed me to have a certain background for my target audience. Other effects such as the crop tool and the magic wand on Photoshop have also helped me when doing my photos. This has helped me because I have been able to get rid of certain things in the photo which I do not need and this has made the picture look more professional. All these effects have helped me a lot and I could do these before on other software’s like word or PowerPoint as they didn’t have the tools which I needed to use.
Using blogger often when I kept updating my planning stages and posting my work on the blog has allowed me to look back over what I have created if I am unsure on how to do something. This has made it easier for me when wanting to know something out.
I have used different websites to help me research into magazines with the same genre as the one I chose to do and this has allowed me to develop ideas about different magazines which I could follow when designing my magazine. I have also used YouTube to look into different types of music and to see what sort of people listen to the genre I did which was R&B.
A lot of the technology has helped me when constructing my media products but I did find that sometimes the technology didn’t always work which made it harder for me to work and get the work done in time with my dates I set.