Media Evaluation

1. Describe/Illustrate the technologies you
have used and explain what they do –
then show me something you learnt
about using them.
What have you learnt about
technologies from the process of
constructing this product?

2. Hardware
Camera DSCR, Nikon
D3100-Digital SLR
Settings- Manual, Aperture
f11 – Shutter speed 1/300th
I used this camera to take
the individual photos for
my magazine cover,
contents and article page,
along with the other
hardware that I also used

3. Hardware
Apple iMac, was used in a lot
of the editing and construction
of the magazine, playing a key
role and the most important
role in creating the magazine
on a whole. Without this I
would've not have been able
to use software's such as Adobe
Photoshop, Adobe InDesign,
Microsoft PowerPoint,

4. Hardware
SD Card. We used this within
the cameras that we used to
perform the photo-shoots
and to also capture and save
the photos so that we could
then in turn transfer these
photos onto the mac, to
allow us to then
incorporate/use these
photos within our work. It

5. Software
Adobe Photoshop CS5.
This was used do produce
most parts and
components of the
magazine, such as the
cover page, contents and
the article page with the
editing of the graphics
and imagery on each page
all down to this one piece

6. Software
Adobe InDesign CS5. This was used for my
final page of my music magazine and also
helped with the writing of the article and the
layout, it played the key role in piecing
everything together and it was so easy to use,
which is a bonus.

7. Software
Wordpress, is the site/software that I used to
ensure that all of my research etc. was posted
and uploaded up onto the blog. This ensured
that my work could be quickly accessed by my
teachers and also made it easier fro them to
mark and it was a different way to presenting
my work on a website rather than in printed
format, because that is just boring. It also gave
my work a more visual look and made my
work look more professional amongst the

8. Software
I used PowerPoint for presenting my work as
such I have every question before hand