1. What have you learned about
technologies from the process of
producing this product? Skills
developed, strengths and limitations
2. In the process of producing my media project I
learnt many different things. I first learned how
to take a photo of a very high standard and then
how to import and edit these images. I also
mastered Adobe Photoshop which was a
challenge as this was something that was knew
to me before this particular project.
3. I feel that my biggest strength was the editing of the images that
would appear on my finished product, this was important because
they needed to be of a high standard as they had to look
professional on the finished media product. If they didn’t it would
have ruined the magazine because the images are arguably the
most important part of the finished project. For the images shown
on the next slide I first cut out the background and then smoothed
off the edges so that they weren't as sharp and any little bits that
were still noticeable would not be apparent, I then used the
luminosity effect, which gave the image the black and white
contrast that is shown on the edited image.
5. When taking the images I had to decided on the
setting, the image that I used on my front cover
was taking in front of graffiti which I think fits in
well with the genre of magazine that I was trying
to produce, I also think that it provides a certain
edge to the piece.
6. The main skill that I have developed is that I now feel
confident using Adobe Photoshop, whereas before this
project it was something new to me that I did not fully
understand, but I now feel that it is something I could use
with relative ease. I feel that my biggest strength when
producing the magazine was editing the images, this was
something that I felt was important to the magazine, as
just basic bland images would have been boring and
wouldn’t have fitted in very well with the genre of
magazine that I was going to produce. The biggest
weakness that I found within my piece was the actual
cutting out of the images, the ‘magic wand tool’ was
something that I could not use very well and I found
myself using the rubber more as this gave me a much
more defined edge, I also found that I was using the blur
tool as to make the edged of the image look more
smooth, as they looked a little bit ragged before this.
