The document discusses the various technologies used to construct a music magazine media product. It describes learning and using Adobe InDesign to lay out pages, Photoshop to edit images, Blogger to upload drafts and present work, Prezi to display research and evaluations, PowerPoint and SlideShare to create presentations. A digital camera was used to take high quality images and the internet/laptop were relied on for research, applications, and construction of the magazine. Overall, the author found the software programs like InDesign, Blogger, and Prezi easy to use once familiarized, while Photoshop and SlideShare were more time consuming but effective.

1. What have you
learnt about
technologies from
the process of
constructing this
media product?
Question 6

2. Adobe InDesign
 This is what I used the most when constructing my
magazine. I had never used it before so it was
totally new to me. I managed to have some
practise on this software with the preliminary task.
I found it okay to use just different, once I got the
hang of doing the simple things like creating new
layers and creating text boxes and inserting
images I was fine and I understood how to use it.
I spent hours on this to create my magazine I
thought it was easy to use and eventually I think I
was able to make a good media product.

3. Photoshop
 I found this at first extremely hard to use, there
were so many ways of editing the images. After
practising using the software I got the hang of
tasks like removing the background on images I
did this by re doing it over and over again until I
was happy with how the image looked. Once
again I got the hang of this I found it easy to use
just time consuming when removing the
background as I had to be very careful to make
sure I didn’t get rid of a tiny bit of the actual
image.

4. Blogger
 I had never even heard of blogger before starting this
media product. But I used this regularly throughout the
progress of my music magazine production.
 I uploaded drafts all the way through this progress of
creating a magazine including drawn drafts and then the
progresses of the progression of each page of the
magazine.
 I found it easy to use, just annoying now and then when I
wanted an image and text in a certain place sometimes I
found it hard to arrange it how I would like. I like the way
though how everything has been presented as it looks
professional and sophisticated.

5. Prezi
 Prezi is another online site that I have used throughout
the construction of my music magazine. I have used
this to display my research for the magazines and also
my evaluation of the final product.
 It is a creative way of displaying work and an attractive
way of displaying work. Before media studies I had only
seen an RE teacher use this previously I had never
used it myself but now I use it not only for media but for
other subjects I'm studying as a way of planning/
revising. I think it is a very good online application an is
extremely easy to use.

6. PowerPoint& SlideShare
 I have always used PowerPoint I think it is really easy
to use and is again a good way of presenting work as
you can get creative with it too. I used this to create my
mission statement and mood board and also for the
evaluation.
 SlideShare I felt was easy to use but time consuming
when putting it onto my blog as the PowerPoints can
sometimes change after uploading it to SlideShare
which then meant you had to go back and adjust it.
Other than this minor issue I think it is a great way of
producing and showing work.

7. Digital Camera
 I used a digital camera to take all the images I
used for my music magazine to make sure the
quality was the best it could be for the
magazine. I found it easy to use and
experimented with having the flash on or off to
get the best images possible. I took multiple
pictures so I had a choice of what looked best
on the page. I feel that all my images were
successful.

8. Internet and laptop
 During the construction of my magazine I have used
the internet a lot to help me with my work, I have used
it t research magazines to get inspiration and also
Blogger, Prezi, SlideShare are all online applications.
 All the software's I have used have been on the laptop,
all the work I have done apart from the drawn drafts
have been using the laptop. I have always loved using
laptops and by the construction of this music magazine
I have found different softwares to use in the future. I
have really enjoyed using technology and finding new
ones and combining it with what I already knew.