The document discusses what the author learned about various technologies through creating a magazine product. They learned how to use Word, Photoshop, and other design tools more effectively. The author struggled at first with InDesign and uploading work but gained skills through practice and guidance. They also learned to use tools like Excel, PowerPoint, and online surveys though initial difficulties. Overall, the author improved their ability to plan out and design professional looking materials through completing this project.

1. Question 6 - What have you learnt about
technologies from the process of constructing
this product?
While making my magazine I learnt how to use lots of different technologies.
firstly i used things like word and photoshop to do my prelim task, i have used these
before so i didn't find it too difficult, i did learn how to use other tools that i haven't
used before though, for example using the
tools to crop my images. i learn a lot about
the more complex tools and how to use the
basic ones more effectively than i was, this
helped me make my work have a more
professional look to it.
One piece of software i found hard to work was indesign, i found it hard to do the
simplest things like crop an image, i think i was too use to photoshop, but with help
and guidance from my teaches i found it easier to work out how to use the tools and
after lots of practise i was able too use
indesign quite comfortably.
To upload my work i use blogger which i
found very complicated to use at first as
you need to convert then in slide share,
but due to the fact i used my mac i have
to change them from mac setting before
hand so it has taken a long time getting use to that as well. But once shown how to
use all these websites i have picked it up and now know how to get my way around
very easily. severe monkey was another one i struggled with getting the hang of,
making the survey was quite straight forward but looking at my results was hard, as
it was quite confusing at first as I'm not use to collecting data.
For my planning i used mostly word or power point, i have used these plenty of
times before so i had a good understanding of how the worked already. i was able
to do more or less everything i needed to and the things i was finding hard once
explained to me i found them easy to use. i learn mainly how to playthings out and
make then look professional. One thing i found very hard was using excel to create
my flat plan, i don't think i had used this before so everything was new to me, to
begin with i found it extremely difficult as i didn't understand anything but eventually
i learnt the tools and how to add cells for example i was able to complete my flat
plan quite easily.

2. 7.Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel
you have learnt in the progression form it to the full
product?
Before making my product i did lots of research in to other magazines
to look at the styles and what was in theirs to give me inspiration for
my own.
Firstly i looked at the people and models in the magazines, at their
ages, how the dressed what the looked like and how the photos where
taken for example candid photos or live photos. when actually taking
the photos of the model i had an idea of the sort of look i was needing
for my style of magazine so we just took loads of different photos
doing different poses until we got some we thought would work.
I also did this all when making my masthead, i looked at lots of different magazines,
and looked t the styles and made mine fit the style of my magazine.
For the first photos i used a normal camera and took it just in the
hallway on a cream coloured wall, i didn't think too much about what i
wanted it too look like, whereas with my photos for my magazine, i
really thought about the look i wanted to go for, i shot these in a studio
so i could control the lighting, and a pure which back ground so it was
easy when it came to edit.
I also learnt about the poses which would work and what looks more
professional.
i also learnt about adding better fonts from dafont.com making it look
more realistic as a magazine.
When you look at both magazines your can really tell how much i
have learn and what a difference this has made to my final
outcome.