Learning about technologies through magazine production
1. What have you learnt about
technologies from the process of
constructing this product?
Morgan Fearnley
2. Throughout the creation of my media
product I have used a lot of different types
of technologies that have helped develop
and improve my final design of my music
magazine. I have used the following:
Quark Xpress
Adobe Photoshop
Microsoft Word and Microsoft Powerpoint
Dell PC
DSLR Cannon D500
Prezi, Blogger, Slideshare and Scribd
3. Quark Xpress
Quark Xpress helped me
design my contents page
and double page spread.
Quark allowed me to add
images, shapes and text
in order to construct my
media product. It was very
important when it came to
my double page spread
because it allowed me to
write columns by using its
guidelines to write in.
4. Adobe Photoshop
Photoshop allowed me to edit the
photos I have taken for my media
product. It was very useful when
it came to the production of my
magazine front cover. It allowed
me to change the colour levels of
my cover star to make it have a
more attracting affect. Photoshop
also allowed me to put writing on
my front cover which is useful for
my sell lines and mast head. It
also allowed me to put shapes in
my front cover which is useful for
the puff I used.
5. Microsoft Word and Powerpoint
Microsoft word allowed me to write things like my
publication plan and questionnaires which I
could upload to Blogger. This is important
because it allows me to write evidence of my
work which can help me get more marks.
Powerpoint has been very useful in my evaluation
as I have used it frequently and it is a simple
and easy way to put together information and
put together. I can put pictures on powerpoint
which gives more evidence and makes it less
boring.
6. Dell PC
The Dell PC I used is the most important
piece of technology I used in the process
of constructing my media product because
with out it I couldn’t have done any of it. It
allowed me to go on software's like
Photoshop and quark to put together my
music magazine. It also allowed me to
download fonts I used for my front cover
so without it my front cover wouldn’t look
like how it does now.
7. DSLR Camera
The Cannon D500 was useful in my production
because it allowed me to take photographs to
put on my front cover, contents page and double
page spread. The large memory capacity meant
that I could take a lot of photos and keep them
all so I could choose which one I would use for
my production. It was also useful because I
could upload the photos I had taken straight to
the computer. It allowed me to see the photos I
had taken as I could scroll through pictures that
was on the memory card.
8. Websites
Websites allowed me to use different ways to upload my work to
blogger. Blogger was one of the most important websites I used
during my task as it allowed me to post my work online for my
teacher to see. Different websites like prezi, slideshare and
scribd all let me upload work from different formats to my blog.
Prezi was like powerpoint but with different features and a
fresher design. Slideshare allowed me to upload my
powerpoints to blogger and scribd allowed me to upload word
ducuments I have written to my blog.
Blogger Prezi Slideshare