The document discusses what the author has learned about various technologies through creating a magazine product. Specifically, the author learned how to use fonts, shadows, layers, and tools in Photoshop to design pages professionally. Quark was used to layout pages in columns and sections. A camera and editing software were used to take and adjust photos to match the magazine style. Finally, Blogger allowed the author to document the process and embed multimedia like PowerPoints and Prezis.
1. What have you learnt about technologies from
the process of constructing this product?
Elisa Narborough
2. Within Photoshop I have learnt how to download and
use different types of fonts on ‘www.dafont.com’ to
improve the look of my magazine. On this website
there is hundreds of different types of font, so I was
able to pick fonts to match and create the style of my
magazine. For example; I downloaded the font
‘Scorched Earth’ for my masthead.
I also learnt about the ‘blending options’ and how to
create different drop shadows on the text and
photographs. Also how to give my text two tones
using the gradient option.
I now know how to successfully remove the
background from a picture using the back ground
eraser tool and/or the pen tool. I then discovered that
by using the blending tool I was able to make it look
less ‘sharp’ and look more natural and less amateur.
By using Photoshop I have been able to produce a
professional looking magazine front cover with forms
and conventions of real media products.
3. I used Quark to create my contents page and
my double page spread.
Once again I was able to use the fonts I had
downloaded to make my magazine more
individual and unique.
By using Quark I was able to layout my pages
into columns for the text using the typical
conventions of a magazine contents page and
double page spread.
I was able to create looking pages that looked
smart and were easy to navigate around.
I discovered and learnt how to use Quark from
setting up the page to inserting all of the
information and photos relevant to my music
magazine.
4. For my photoshoot I used a Lumix G10 camera. I
played around with the settings of the camera and
used filters to get certain effects.
I shot photos at different angles and distances to find
the best shot suitable and interesting for my
magazine.
By using the whitewall and lighting along with the
effects on the camera and using filters I produced a
range of different photos that looked professional.
I made sure that the photos complemented the
housestyle of my magazine and followed the
alternative look and colour scheme.
I then edited the photos on Windows Live Gallery, I
adjusted the brightness, contrast, highlights and
shadows to make the photo look more professional.
Even by improving the colour, making the photo looks
‘cooler’ instead of ‘warm’ to fit in with the style of the
magazine. I also made some of the photos black and
white.
5. I’ve used blogger to show the process of creating and
producing a new music magazine. By using blogger it has
kept me organised as I always know what the next step
is. I’ve blogged each stage of creating my magazine
including audience research and general magazine
research so that I knew what I was doing to make my
magazine look professional.
I have learnt how to use blogger and place
photos, text, prezi’s and PowerPoint's on there using
slideshare.
Slideshare is a website which has let me be able to place
my PowerPoint’s onto my blog by uploading them onto
the site and then using the embedded code to put it onto
my blog.
Prezi is a website which I can create a slideshow on but in
a more interesting way where it navigates to each section
with twists and turns and other effects. Again I was then
able to upload it to my blog by using the embedded
code.
