The document discusses various technologies the author learned about and used during the process of creating their product. They used Adobe Photoshop to create professional images for their magazine, learned how to export images and use color gradients. BlogSpot was used to organize their work and research in chronological order and they learned how to edit HTML and embed content. Prezi was used to create brainstorms and present research in an organized manner. YouTube, Slideshare, InDesign, Internet Explorer, Microsoft Word and PowerPoint, and a Canon camera were also utilized at various stages of research, content creation, and production.

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

2. Adobe Photoshop
• Adobe Photoshop is a
professional software. It
worked efficiently for me to
create professional images
fast and effectively.
• I learnt how to export
images and convert them
into a JPEG’s.
• I learnt how to put depth in
my images by using the
colour gradient tool
creatively. This made my
images look professional.
Photoshop was a
main software I
used in the
production of my
magazine.

3. BlogSpot
• I have found www.blogspot.com
, useful whilst producing my
product because it has enabled
me to organise my work and
create a chronological order of
my research and products.
• I have learnt how to edit the
HTML and embed helpful
powerpoints, videos and prezi’s
to my blog.
• I now understand how to
arrange my blog so the content
is clear and understandable.
This is the
layout for
my blogger.

4. Prezi
• www.prezi.com was a very
useful website to create my
brainstorms because it was a
simple yet creative programme
to follow to express my ideas.
• Prezi was a creative way to
publish my work I had
researched and evaluated.
• I learnt how to add a path to my
presentation to allow my work to
be seen in chronological order.
Snapshots of
my prezi’s I
have created.

5. YouTube
• I have learnt how to upload videos in their appropriate format
so that I could embed them into my blog posts.
• It was useful learning about the video so in the future I will
understand and be able to create my own to embed into my
blog
• I can now edit information on a video to change necessary
words or sentences.

6. Slideshare
• Slideshare was a useful media technology due to it allowing
me to covert my PowerPoint presentations into a more
compatible format so I could embed it properly into my blog.
• I learnt how to create an account efficiently so I was able to
upload a PowerPoint effectively and quickly.
• I found using Slideshare relatively straight forward due to it
being similar to YouTube, therefore embedding my work was
as easy and efficient.

7. InDesign
• I constructed the contents page and double page spread
using InDesign software due to it being more text based
compared to Adobe Photoshop.
• I learnt how to import my front cover – which was created in
Photoshop. This joint all my 4 pages together.
• InDesign was useful for grouping and scaling texts and
images together. Nevertheless, the resolution was greatly
smaller for images, therefore photos were pixelated at
times.

8. Internet Explorer
• I used Internet Explorer as my
main use of finding out
primary and secondary
research such as; magazine
layouts and stereotypical
tribes.
• I learnt how to research
properly into different areas
for my product, such as;
finding out particular owners
for magazines.
• Internet Explorer helped my
complete my
research, nevertheless, its not
100% reliable and had poor
quality images at times.
Finding
research was
fast and
efficient

9. Microsoft Word
• I used Microsoft Word to create my questionnaire for my
primary research.
• Due to their being no voice overs or video recordings I
believe the questionnaire was a hard way to find out
what my target audience wanted leaving it rather
limited, due to not seeing the readers attitude towards
the question.

10. Microsoft PowerPoint
• Microsoft PowerPoint was
rather useful when researching
various topics into my
product, it allowed me to
show my ideas on a slideshow
to express my work and be
seen creatively.
• Picture A is an example in
which way I used to share my
research on my blog.
• I then learnt how to upload my
presentations to Slideshare to
then be embedded into my
blog, which was a familiar
process as YouTube.
Microsoft
PowerPoint was
useful when
presenting my
research ideas.

11. Canon
• I used the canon camera for
my practise and final photo
shoot for my final magazine
product.
• I learnt how to take images
professionally using thirds –
this allows you to get the
right eyeline in the image.
• I understood how to zoom in
and zoom out to get the
image I wanted, so more
than one object or person
was suitable in the frame.
This is the camera I
used to take my
images for my final
product