From constructing his media product, Alex learned how to use Quark Express, Photoshop, and other technologies. He gained a better understanding of layout design in Quark Express and learned how to scan materials, edit photos by cutting out backgrounds, and use Blogger to publish his work. While he previously did not know how to use these software programs, working on his product helped him gain valuable skills with the technologies through hands-on experience.

1. Evaluation. 6. What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product? Alex Hill

2. Technologies. From using such technology as quark express and photoshop I think I have gained a lot of knowledge of using this sort of software, before I started the media course I did not have a clue how to use any of this software but know judging from all my feedback on my product I think I have gained a better understanding on all this technology. Using Quark express was crucial in making my product as it gave me the chance to set the layout of the front cover and I learned how to set out my outline of my magazine, another thing which was very important in making my product was scanning in things such as a draft of my contents and double page spread, and scanning in things such as questionnaires on my audience feedback, this made it a lot easier to get things I needed uploaded onto photoshop or my blog.

3. Using the camera played a big part in putting my product together as I used the colleges digital SLR camera to get all my photos that I have used in my magazine, which I then photoshopedand edited to took parts out that I didn’t need by cutting it such as the background, I then cropped it so I could put it into my magazine and made it look more realistic. As you can see above in the photos I have started to cut out a photo in photoshop which I then could put in my magazine to give off a bleeding effect. Using blogger.com helped me lodes in the way that I could keep track of my work and get all the work done that I needed to do and publish it in the right place. To sum it all up I would not be able to make any of my magazine come together if I didn’t have any of the new technologies such as quark, photoshop and blogger, which shows they hugely made the difference in my work.