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

2. Macs
Macs have been one of my main sources of technology for making
my magazine, as they are what we used at school
however, because I do not have one at home it has been hard
transferring work as the macs have different programs than my
windows laptop has. Therefore, I have had to learn how to use the
different programs on the macs for example IPhoto.

3. Camera’s
To take my photos I used different camera’s the one at school and
the one at home. The one at home was a lot easier to use and
easier to transfer my photo’s. The one I used at school was a lot
harder as it was more advanced and as only 1 mac had a slot of
the memory card, it took much longer to get the photos as most of
the time that mac was being used. The camera used at school was
the canon eos 350d camera and the one at home was the
Samsung wb550.

4. Microsoft Word
I used Microsoft word to create my entire magazine, because I
found Picnic very hard to use. Word was a lot easier to use
because I could get a white background which was very
conventional, and I couldn’t do that on picnic. However, it didn’t
create as much a professional look as my magazine would have if
it had been created on a program like publisher. Also, it was quite
hard to crop my images and get them onto my blog. In the end I
managed to do it. Word was easy as well for shapes and they had
a variety to choose from. In the future I would use a different
program to create my magazine so it looked more professional.

5. Blogger
Blogger was the piece of technology that I used most often. It was
where I posted all my research and planning. At first I found
blogger quite difficult to use because you have to layout
everything clearly so the moderator can read it. However, as I
used the program more often it got much easier to use. I have also
learnt how to edit posts in so they are in order chronologically.

6. The Internet
The internet was my most used source to find out all the
information on current magazines as well as my information on
finding out what is conventional for magazines so I could create
mine. Google was my main source and I learnt that this search
engine was the one that had the best and most results on it. I also
used Google images to find my style models for my magazine and
Google images had many different options for me to pick from.