1. Evaluation 6What have you learnt about technologies in the process of creating this product?
2. Planning Pictures
In order to plan the ways in which I was going to take
the pictures for my magazine I created a mood board
using pin treat. I also looked many more different
covers online. I then saved everything that I had
found and put it onto my iPad. Before the shoot with
my models I then showed them the mood board and
other images on my iPad to give them a brief
overview of what I wanted them to do.
3. Taking the pictures
In order to take my pictures I used a camera from
school which was a Canon EOS 1100D. The settings
on the camera took a while to figure out, as they were
all on auto so the camera changed see the settings
that it thought would be best. As I was taking my
photos outside it and had got dark the camera thought
that it was best to have the flash on. However this
made the pictures come out lighter in some areas than
others. As the settings were changed the auto focus
also turned off meaning that I had to ensure I focused
the camera myself before taking the picture.
4. Importing the Pictures
After I had taken the pictures I used the USB lead in
order to import all of the images to my laptop. As
the pictures were taken on a public camera I
deleted them once they had all been added onto my
laptop. I then kept them all on iPhoto to later be
edited.
5. Editing the Photo’s
As I have a Apple laptop I was able to use
iPhoto as my editing software. The software was
easy to use as it allowed you to undo and re do
things if any mistakes had been made. I used
the the effects the most on the software. As my
pictures were taken outside in the dark I had to
make them a lot lighter, iPhoto allowed me to do
this successfully without making it look like the
pictures had been over edited. Next I used the
warmer effect in order to give my photo’s
warmer tones. The blemish tool then allowed me
to remove any imperfections or blemishes that
my modes may have had.
6. Pixlr
In order to create my Front Cover, Contents Page and
Double Page Spread I used Pixlr. This is free to use online
however I put the software onto my laptop as it allowed me
to carry on with my magazine even when I didn't have any
internet. Pixlr allowed me to do many different things to my
magazine like adding text on to the image,place images
onto of each other and fade certain things. Like the letters
T.R.B on my DPS. The negative to the software is once
you have pressed apply to the thing that you are working
on you are then not able to go back and change it. So I
screenshot every now and then to prevent me having to get
rid of everything that I had been working on if I didn't like
something that I had added at the very beginning.
7. PreziIn order to present some of the research and
evaluations added to my blog I used Prezi. As I first
used press I didn't understand how to use it
however as I asked other people in my class and
played around with it for a while I finally got the
hang of it. I liked using Prezi as it made blog posts
more interesting to use rather than just typing
everything out into block paragraphs.
One thing I didn't like about Prezi was as you had
used up all of the circles that come with the
publication any more that you add are really small
and are placed in random places around you
publication. However with a bit more playing around
you can get them into the place that you want them.
Another thing that was difficult was uploading the
finished Prezi onto blogger as you can not simply
8. Slideshare
At first I found this a lot harder to use than Prezi as I
didn't get that you had to make the power point and
simply upload it. However I like the way in which
slide share presents the information as you can a lot
more to it than you are able to on Prezi, with it still
be clear and effective to read. Although Slide Share
looks good and presents the information in a clear
way there are many different stages that have to
occur before the slide share can finally be shared
onto blogger and takes a long time.
9. Blogger
As I had a blog perviously I was familiar with the blogger
website so did not need to take masses of time getting
use to how everything worked. Blogger has many
positives and negatives to it. It always you to easily
present information using many different forms mediums,
it also allows you to go back and edit posts as many
times as you need to. However the format of the blogs
can be frustrating when you are trying to add many
pictures to a post as sometimes they do not go to the
places that you want to on the post.
10. InternetDue to everything be published onto blogger the internet
was always being used during the production of my
magazine. The internet was vert useful when it came to
researching everything around my magazine and looking
into what other magazines had done perviously. When
ever completing any media work I always had multiple
tabs open looking at many different things.
When wanting to edit anything on my blog I needed the
internet. Also many of the editing softwares that were
used were online. A massive positive to the internet is
that fact you are able to access your work anywhere that
you have a connection on any device.
