A2 MEDIA STUDIES

1. HOW ADVENTUROUS
WAS I??
Kristy Lai

2. Technical Stuff…
 I used Adobe Photoshop, Indesign, Garageband throughout my
production…
 Indesign is awfully complicated. Till this day I still struggle with
Indesign as I was confused in how things work and what kind of
functions have an effect on my production..
 The different tools just confuse me a lot and I just didn’t know how I
can incorporate these functions into my production as it’s an industry
standard tool which people use to publish items…
 I don’t understand how I can I create articles that fit and look
professional with the use of the functions in Indeisgn.
 My aim for the furture is to understand how every single function
works, including how to use the gradient tool and how it improves
my productions.

3. Technical Stuff
 In terms of which softwares I’m confident in, I believe my
photoshops skill have improved massively, as I not only
used blending options, but the saturation, hue, brightness
tools to improve the overall quality of my magazine
images.
 I also learnt how to create images with different color
tones and also how to make them a certain style.
 Even though it was my first time using garageband, I had
a fairly pleasant experience with the software as the
software wasn’t hard to control. But I had a little issue with
the volume control which I had to create a fade in.
However after our media technician showed me, I’m now
able to grasp the skill.

4. Photography Skills..
 I have upgraded my camera from a canon powershot g12
(point and shoot) to a canon 6D (DSLR)
 I had no idea what ISO, White balance, aperture meant
last year…
 But after intensive research, I finally understood what they
meant and I have control in how my images should look
like.
 I now understand how to create images with a depth of
field.
 I also progressed by from using auto mode to manual
mode!!!

5. Photography Skills…
 I believe I can explore more of portraits better,
because my angles were not good enough, which
meant that sometimes the images weren’t straight
and a bit to the side.
 I think I can also decrease the ISO of my camera in
the future for outdoor shoots because it makes my
images washed out.
 I could have also used my flash in indoor shoots,
because sometimes lighting in certain places are not
as liable, and seem a bit to dark.