A powerpoint about how/what technology I have used throughout the making process of my coursework.

1. Technology

2. WIX.COM
Throughout the production, construction and evaluation of my music magazine, I have used Wix.com to record all
information and track my journey throughout the whole process. In doing this, I have learnt a great deal about the
WIX editing site such as how to create links to different pages, How to insert image galleries, how to size and scale
images and texts, How to import links and images from external webpages, how to upload my own images and all in
all construct a presentable website. It is important that I created an interesting and easily navigated website in
order to clearly show my steps throughout the process. Before this editing process, I had never used Wix before so
had no initial knowledge when I began to plan my magazine. However, I believe my knowledge of and skills on Wix
have improved significantly from when I first began to use the site as I can now navigate my way around the site
and know how to use the basic tools. However, my knowledge and skills on wix and website construction as a whole
could be improved further by looking at additional tools wix offers in order to edit and upload elements such as texts
and images in a more advanced but interesting way. Furthermore, I could have looked at more existing sites to
decide which tools on wix would allow me to create a more professional and presentable look for my information.

3. Survey Monkey
As part of my research, I decided that it was importantto get my target audience’sthoughts and opinionson music magazines –
especiallypop music magazines. I wanted a wide range of results and I decided that this may be impracticalto do in person
using a paper questionnaireso I decided to use the easy to use site – Service Monkey. I had never used this site before but I
found it very straightforward to construct my questionnaireandit was very easy to distributeto my target audience for
feedback as it has the optionto share on Facebook and the link to the questionnairecouldalso be sent over private messenger. I
thought this was a very successful and vital decision as part of my research as it gave me an insight to the needs, interests and
expectationsof my target audience. I decided not to send my questionnaireto my fellow media students as they are not the
same age as my target audienceand it Is my target audience’sage that contributesmassively to the type of features used so
their feedback was more importantto me.

4. D7 & D10 Camera’s
I had not used the college camera’s before but I decided to use college’s own digital cameras to take the
photographs needed for my magazine in order for my images to be high quality and give a professional look to my
magazine. Whilst using the cameras I learnt how to change the focus and zoom of the camera as well allowing me to
experiment with a range of different styled shots. Due to taking a wide variety of shots it allowed me to select the
best quality and positioned ones for my magazines. However, my camera skills could be improved further as I did not
experiment with the aperture of the lens meaning that sometimes I found my images were too light or too dark due
to just using the set aperture.

5. Adobe Photoshop
I have had no previous experience on photoshop so struggled at first, however throughout the process I began to
gain more and more skills throughout the process allowing me eventually to show off the skills and techniques that I
gained. I began to construct my website using the basic shape, text and colour tools in order to form the basis of my
magazine which I found fairly straight forward. However, I began to use more advanced tools such as the spot
healing tool brush, magic background eraser, magnetic lasso and colour adjustment tool, contrast and brightness
settings and the blur and smudge tools. I found that I had to be patient when using these tools in order to edit my
image precisely and give my images a professional look. I do believe my magazine could be improved further as I
could’ve used for advanced and complex tools when designing my masthead instead of doing it when I only had
basic skills and knowledge of photoshop.

6. Popplet & Prezi
As part of my evaluation,I have had to use a range of different technologies. Two sites I haveused are Poppletand Prezi
which are types of presentationsites. I had not used any of sites before but I found them quite simple and straightforward to
use and their simplistic layoutstyle makes displaying informationvery easy easy.