1. Qu6) What have you learnt about
technologies from the process of
constructing this product?
Qu7) Looking back at your preliminary
task, what do you feel you have learnt
in the progression from it to the full
product?

2. Definitions of programmes and technologies I used
• Adobe InDesign: a software application produced by Adobe Systems. It can be used to create works such as posters, flyers,
brochures, magazines, newspapers and books. InDesign can also publish content suitable for tablet devices in conjunction with
Adobe Digital Publishing Suite. Graphic designers and production artists are the principal users, creating and laying out periodical
publications, posters, and print media.
• Abobe Photoshop: Adobe Photoshop is a graphics editing program developed and published by Adobe Systems.
• Microsoft Powerpoint: a non-free commercial software program developed by Microsoft. PowerPoint presentations
consist of a number of individual pages or "slides.“
• Microsoft word: a non-free word processor designed by Microsoft.
• Dafont: an online archive of freely downloadable fonts. Fonts are categorized by theme, and can also be sorted by name, date,
and popularity. The site also allows users to enter custom text when previewing fonts.
• Find Your Tribe: an online questionnaire that finds your “tribe” (target audience,) from the answers you give.
• The Internet: The Internet is a global system of interconnected computer networks to serve billions of users worldwide.
• Google Search: a web search engine owned by Google Inc. Google Search, is the most-used search engine on the World
Wide Web,[3] receiving several hundred million queries each day through its various services.
• Canon d400 SLR digital camera: is an entry level digital single-lens reflex camera introduced by Canon 24 August 2006.
• Glogster: http://glogster.com is a site for online poster construction
• Bubbl: http://www.bubbl.us/ is an online brainstorm/ mindmap creator
• Pixton: http://www.pixton.com/ is an online comic strip creator

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• Before I began my preliminary task, I had no previous experience with using either InDesign
or Photoshop. The – only programmes I had any skills were Microsoft Word, PowerPoint and
other similar ones.
• The only knowledge I had of any magazines (including their codes and conventions,) was
knowledge I had gained through reading magazines in my personal time. The only music
magazines I read before I began the preliminary task were Kerrang! And Rock Sound, both of
which were reasonably long ago.

4. • When undertaking my preliminary task, my skills at using InDesign
and Photoshop were non existent. However, although my
preliminary task wasn’t to a very high standard, it improved my
basic skills at both of the programmes brilliantly and as when
making the contents page I struggled at editing the images to
import and thus ran out of time to include one, I knew I had to
practise my Photoshop skills before creating my final product.

5. • When carrying out my research, the main programme I used was Internet Explorer.
Via the Internet, I searched and gathered information on magazine publishers, and
their magazines. Throughout the research phase, my search engine skills improved
vastly, as there was so much research – I needed to become efficient to save time.
• The other two main websites I used in this section, I hadn’t come across before:
Blogger, and Find Your Tribe. Find Your Tribe was an online questionnaire that
found your target audience – this was reasonably easy to control. Blogger is an
online blog where I will be hosting my magazine and the work surrounding it.
During the research phase my blog was very simple and I had little on there.

7. • In the planning for my magazine, I used the website
Dafont to test different font styles on my
masthead. The websites lets you chose and
download any fonts from different categories. From
using this I gained greater knowledge on different
typographies and their input to a magazine. The
site itself was simple to use.
• When on the photo shoot for my magazine, I was
using a Canon 400d digital SLR camera I had
borrowed from a friend. I had next to no previous
photography experience. I used the same camera
in my preliminary task and the photos weren’t as
good due to lack of experience.
• When taking the photos in my planning, I was in a
photography studio, with a backdrop and props.
My skills with a camera improved massively, and I
was altering the focus, brightness and contrast,
zoom, shutter speed and flash to develop the
quality of the photos in comparison to the
preliminary task – where I just left the default
settings on and took the photos.
• I also had another chance at using Adobe
Photoshop (the photo editing software,) too as I
then went on to edit my photos in preparation for
the construction. After practising and advancing my
skills with this programme during and after the
preliminary task, I was able to change the contrast,
pixels, size, and layer my images.

8. • During my production, the
programme I used was InDesign
(alongside a little Photoshop for
editing.)

9. Text boxes
Image fitted
to A4 (learnt Different
from fonts, colours
preliminary & text sizes
task.)
Aligned
text boxes
Weight on Layered – photo at back, text at
outline of text front. (learnt on preliminary task.)
• The production of my main task was much more successful than that of my preliminary
one.
• I think this was mainly down to the fact I had experience from the preliminary task. My
photography skills improved greatly, as well as my skills at all of the above features.

11. • Throughout my evaluation I tried to use a range of
different methods to present my work to make it
creative and visually interesting; these included:
– Powerpoint: To present my pictures, images, screen caps in a smart form.
– Glogster: an online poster maker, I used this to import images and text to
visually represent my target audience from the research I had gathered.
– Pixton: an online comic maker I used to represent and visually show the
opinions of my target audience and social groups – as well as briefly
showing the stages my magazine went through.
– Bubbl: I used this magazine creator to simply and visually demonstrate the
technologies I used throughout the process of producing my magazine.
All of these websites were reasonably simple to use , however I learnt more on how to creatively
present information. From each my skills in using the internet, importing and editing images and
graphics, and downloading images to PowerPoint have improved. Since the preliminary task I have
gained much confidence in using technology to my advantage – within the preliminary task I was only
using Microsoft programmes and struggled with any editing software, and since then I have gained
more and more experience by using all of these programmes.