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

2. Software
Used:
• Adobe PhotoShop •SlideShare
• Internet Explorer/ • Blogger (www.blogspot.com)
Google Chrome • YouTube
• Survey Monkey • Forum sites (Kerrang!)
• Microsoft Products: • Blackboard
Word • Sony Vegas Pro 10
PowerPoint
Publisher
Hardware
Used:
• Camera • External Hard Drive
• Computer/Laptop • Card Reader
• Memory Card • Video Recorder
• Memory Stick • Mobile (iPhone)

3. Research Production Evaluation
& Planning
• Adobe PhotoShop • Microsoft:
•Internet Explorer/ •Blogger (blogspot.com) Word
Google Chrome • Camera PowerPoint
• Survey Monkey • Computer/Laptop • Internet Explorer/
• Microsoft Products: • Memory Card Google Chrome
Word • Card Reader
PowerPoint • Memory Stick
Publisher • Microsoft Publisher
•SlideShare
• Blogger (blogspot.com)
• YouTube
• Forum sites (Kerrang!) I used certain tools throughout the different stages of
• Blackboard making my product, from the beginning research to the
• Sony Vegas Pro 10 end evaluation. I have had experience with a lot of
• Computer/Laptop different software and hardware by creating this magazine
• Video Recorder that I wouldn’t have come across otherwise such as
• Mobile (iPhone) Blogger which I used for the first time for this project.

4. Things I Have Learnt
During the making of this project I have leant many different skills regarding the various tools that
I have used. Two of the main things that I feel are important are Adobe PhotoShop and Blogger
(www.blogspot.com). This is because a large majority of my project centres around these two
software tools and so using these has really helped in developing my skills and I now feel a lot
more confident using this software.
The blog that I created has been
really useful in displaying my work
efficiently as it is accessable from
anywhere, whether that be college or
home and also on my mobile so that I
could update my posts and entries if I
remembered something on the go!
I especially liked the way that the
blog displayed the images because
you could choose from many
different sizes depending on which
you felt was better. Also, it was very
customizable which was a bonus
because I was able to give it a dark
colour scheme and an appropriate
background.

5. Things I Have Learnt #2
PhotoShop was the main software used throughout my
project because my magazine was created solely using
this, and so I had to become familiar with the interface.
Creating the York College magazine as a tester made
sure that I knew how to use the basic tools such as the
text tool and adjustment layers, as I would be using
these the most to add text and articles and adjust the
settings on my photographs. I also learnt to do more
advanced things such as cut around my subjects head
for the front cover so that it overlayed the masthead as
this is often found on rock magazines.
Another thing that I have learnt to use is SurveyMonkey because this tool helped me to
find out what my audience would prefer in my magazine (such as style of photography etc)
and what age the target audience is. This has been really helpful when creating my
magazine because I could cater ACID to the specific audience to achieve the result I
wanted. It also helped me to create surveys which looked professional and were very easy
to create and fill in, which was a bonus as the audience don’t want complicated surveys.

6. Key Questions
• I feel like I could have completed this task in some aspects without technology.
However, this would have been extremely time consuming and wouldn’t have been as
efficient as things would have to have been kept in a paper file instead of over the internet
and on the computer – this is incontinent in case things got lost. Having a blog meant that
I could update whenever I wanted and wherever I wanted and keep presentation neat and
tidy and didn’t use up any paper. I wouldn’t have been able to create my magazine using
PhotoShop software and so the presentation would have been extremely poor.
• I think I could have completed the project without the blog because documents could be
printed out instead of being kept online. This is doesn’t mean that I would want to do this
however, because the blog was one of the main aspects of the project that I enjoyed and
gave me ease of use.
• PhotoShop played a large part in creating my project so doing it without it would have
been difficult and expensive so I’m grateful that I have learnt the skills to navigate the
software efficiently.
•The positives of using technology was that the blog was easy to run and maintain and
creating the survey was very quick and was sent over the internet meaning it didn’t use
printing costs and was completed a lot faster.
•The negatives were that if the website for the blog was down then I didn’t have access to
it which was quite incontinent when I wanted to update quickly.