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Question 6
1. Question #6
What have you learnt about new
technologies and software from the
process of creating your media
product?
2. When designing and producing the
final product of my music magazine, I
used various forms of technology and
software to help me create it. These
have helped me to make the actual
magazine and to present things on
my blog in various media rich ways
4. My whole blog and media product was created using an
Apple Mac computer. The Mac was a huge part of the
whole creation process, as it was a very high quality, top of
the range computer which allowed me to easily access
programs and software to make my blog and magazine
successful. A few examples of the programs and websites
used by the Mac is; Photoshop, Prezi, Survey Monkey,
Blogger, Powtoon, Pinterest etc. Before this project I had
never used a mac before and it took me a while to get used
to the controls of it, however in the end I discovered that I
prefer using them a lot more to regular computers due to
how much faster and more efficient they are.
6. In order to present all my research, planning final
products etc. in one place, I decided to use blogger to
place them all on a blog. I had never used blogger prior
to this, therefore I had to get used to how to make
posts and add images and embedded videos to it, but
in the end I managed to navigate my way around the
site with great ease. All my findings and products are
displayed on this site in media rich ways, with the use
of attachments and embedded codes. I am able to edit
my posts, therefore whenever I learnt some new
information or gained any more ideas, I went back and
updates all my ideas and research.
8. Pinterest is an online website used to display
multiple images all in one place. This was a new
website to me when creating my blog; I had
never used it before and was not really sure
what it was. Once I learnt how to use it, I
managed to create ‘mood boards’ on it of
various images of music magazines and different
outfits ideas in order to help with my target
audience research. This allowed the images to
all be shown together on one page neatly, as if
they were ideas being pinned to a board.
10. Prezi is a website used to make presentations
slightly more interesting, as it uses a variety of
themes and customization techniques and
transitions in order to make the presentation
more appealing to the viewers. When doing my
research, planning and productions, I used Prezi
on a number of occasions, as I feel it is a good
alternative to Microsoft Powerpoint.
12. Animoto is a website used to create 30 second
long videos which act like presentations to
display pictures and information. I however used
a premium account when using animoto, as 30
seconds was not long enough to display as much
information as I wanted, and I found it was a
very good alternative to online presentations, as
it allowed you to add special features (an
example being music)
14. Powtoon is a website which allows you to create
a presentation in the style of a video. It allows
you to animate your ideas in a creative way and
is my personal favourite of all the newly
introduced programs/software/websites I've
used during this whole process. It allowed me to
put down all my ideas in a creative and cartoon
like way, which makes it very appealing to the
viewer.
16. Survey Monkey is an online website used to
display surveys and questionnaires. I had never
used this before however it did not take me long
to create multiple surveys on it, before posting
them to online social network sites (Twitter) in
order to get results back to help me with my
target audience research.
18. The main software I used during this whole process was Adobe
Photoshop CS5. Photoshop was completely new to me at the start of
this project, therefore I had a lot to learn. During the production of
my final magazine pages, I learnt a lot about the different tools that
photoshop has to offer, such as: how to use the eye dropper tool to
pick up colour, how to use the lasso tool to select certain segments
of your work, how to copy/duplicate layers with the Alt+Drag
shortcut, how to use different brush sizes and strokes to draw freely
on the page, how to use the ‘place’ tool to add photos, how to blend
using the finger smudge tool, how to add text using the text box
tool, how to rotate and scale images using the free transform tool,
and many, many more.
