Media Evaluation

1. EVALUATION
QUESTION 6
Josh Tull

2. Q6. WHAT HAVE YOU LEARNT ABOUT
TECHNOLOGIES FROM THE PROCESS OF
CONSTRUCTING THIS PRODUCT?
 Hardware that I used in the production of my music magazine.
 The camera that I used in the photo shoot of the models was a
Nikon D3100 – Digital SLR. The settings – Manual Aperture
f11- Shutter Speed 1/300th. When using this camera I learnt
how to take professional photos using the flash trigger to
illuminate the model.
 When using the Horseshoe Flash Trigger an infra red signal is
sent to the strobe flash which triggers the flash with the shutter
of the camera.

3.  The strobe flash lights are set to trigger in sync with the camera
shutter and the dial on the back of these lights change the output.
This strobe flash highlights the model and makes them stand out
when in front of the white backdrop. The model of the strobe flash
lights are Hemisphere 300.
 When using the strobe light it helps to illuminate the model and it
also creates high exposure.
 The use of the soft boxes create a soft light onto the model and it
doesn’t create sharp images. The lights are not harsh on the
model and they create a smooth soft shot, hence why they are
called soft boxes. The use of these soft boxes help my photo
shoot to be more professional as the photos are clear, rounded
and sharper, this helps to show off the model in the photo shoot.

4.  Other hardware that I used in the production of my music
magazine.
Apple iMac - Hardware Overview:
 Model Name: iMac
Processor Name: Intel Core 2 Duo
Processor Speed: 2 GHz
Number Of Processors: 1
Number Of Cores: 2
Memory: 8 GB
Keyboard & Mouse
SD Card- Holds all the photos that I took on the
DSLR and i can then use a SD Card Reader to
put these images onto the iMac for use in the
production of my music magazine.
X-Serve – Server holds network accounts
 Without this hardware I wouldn‘t be able
to create my music magazine as there
would be no where to create my
magazine, also there wouldnt be a place
to store my files.
 When using the iMac I learnt how to use
new shortcuts and this helped me to
easily create my magazine and also use
different features in new software
programs easier.

5. SOFTWARE THAT I USED IN THE
PRODUCTION OF MY MUSIC MAGAZINE.
 Software used:
 Adobe Photoshop CS5
 Adobe InDesign CS5
 Wordpress.com
 Firefox Browser
 OS X – Operating System
 Powerpoint / Prezi
 YouTube
 Slideshare

6.  The main software program that I used was Adobe Photoshop
CS5. When using Photoshop I used tools to construct forms and
create the basic magazine frame.
 This hyperlink leads to the adobe products that I used in the
making of my music magazine.
http://www.adobe.com/uk/products/catalog.html
 I also used Adobe InDesign CS5 to create my magazine article
and I used Wordpress to publish and present all of the media that
I created.

7. TOOLS USED IN PHOTOSHOP CS5
I used the layers tool to order the different shapes, texts
and images so that they would fit into my magazine and
they would fit the theme of my magazine.
The main tools from the tool bar that I used were the
lasso tool, the text tool, move tool and paint bucket tool.
These different tools helped me to create my graphics,
forms and conventions. The lasso tool helped me to pull
images out of the background and have them cut out.
The character tool also helped me to adapt and change
my text so that I suited my theme, I could change the
height and width of the text I used to make it however I
wished. This made making unique text easy.