Media Evaluation

1. Evaluation Question
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WHAT HAVE YOU LEARNT ABOUT TECHNOLOGIES FROM THE PROCESS OF
CONSTRUCTING THIS PRODUCT?

2. Throughout the process and construction of making
my music magazine I have learnt many new skills.
Doing this magazine really helped me expand my
knowledge on the amount of work that goes into one
magazine, as well as gaining knowledge on various
different programs such as adobe Photoshop. Where I
learnt how to enhance change and manipulate photos
to make them appeal to an audience specific to my
genre and age range.

3. ICT skills
 I used various different programs such as blogger and slide share which
were new to me. Blogger allowed me to make posts and create pages
expressing my work in new forms of media such as uploading PowerPoint
presentations onto slide share, so I could then embed my PowerPoints like
this one onto my blog.
 Uploading and downloading was difficult to start with and took me a while
to understand however once I got used to it, it was easy to convert files
and upload them.

4. Photography
 For my photography I used a cannon camera, this was very helpful for the
outcome of my photos. This was a digital camera which allowed me to
view the photos once id taken them so I knew what looked good and what
didn’t . It also meant that I could see if I needed to adjust the angle of the
photo or if I needed to change anything else (my model). I learnt a lot
when using the camera such as, how to change the brightness or how to
zoom in and out. Due to this being my own camera I had a lot of
understanding about the settings and which ones would work well and
what wouldn’t

5. Programs
 Whilst making my music magazine I had to express my knowledge and understanding of
different programs. Programs such as adobe Photoshop extended Cs3 (and adobe InDesign
when designing my double page spread mock up) were used to help make my magazine as
professional as possible. Adobe Photoshop Cs3 helped me enhance , alter and remove
background and filter my images to make them look as eye – catching and interesting as
possible, also I could convert my images to make them to the best quality without ruining the
original quality of the images and without leaving the image pixelated . I wanted to try a
different program to see if I could handle it better so used Adobe InDesign which helped me
build up my double page spread, the program helped create separate layers and the quality
of the text was so clear ,even when zoomed in , and at the end it compressed the layers into
one end product which is my magazine, also this program allowed me to build up layers
without bleeding one image into another, however I found this program took me longer to
use and i found harder to navigate therefore when creating my final construction I stayed
using adobe Photoshop extended Cs3.