The document describes the process of creating a magazine using different technologies. It discusses researching and planning the magazine, drafting an outline, taking photography, and evaluating the finished product. Photography techniques explored include using a DSLR camera, learning manual and auto focus, shutter speed, lighting, and experimenting with angles without a tripod. Adobe Photoshop was used to layout the front cover, contents page, and spreads, though it was initially complicated to learn. The work was showcased using wikispaces, slideshare, Microsoft PowerPoint, and uploading files to a personal wiki page.

1. Construction
USING DIFFERENT TECHNOLOGIES TO CREATE MY MAGAZINE

2. Process
I went through different stages to create my final product:
 Research and Planning to gather information on what will be
successful in creating a magazine.
 Drafting which outlined the main style of my magazine.
 Photography
 Creating the product.
 Evaluating everything from start to finish.

3. Photography
 I decided to purchase a DSLR for a professional photography look for
the shots featured in my magazine. I had experimented at first taking
pictures of random objects to find my photography style so I basically
taught myself how to use it.
 I learnt the basics of using auto and manual focus which helped with
the shallow focus that I chose to use in my photos and having pictures
unfocused on purpose for effect.
 Other features such as the shutter speed and lighting was more
frustrating to get the hang of because I didn’t know what any of this
meant until I actually took enough time to go through each setting. I
mainly used natural lighting and a fast shutter speed, apart from 2 shots
where the subjects were walking forward, to use for my magazine.
 I experimented with different angles and took photos without using a
tripod to allow more freedom in shots and the fact that the camera
was kept stationary on the tripod would make some shots harder to
execute than others.

4. Production
 I used Adobe Photoshop CS6 to create my front cover, contents
page and double page spread. I would have used a website called
pixlr if Photoshop decided to crash.
 Photoshop was quite complicated to work with during the
production as I was unfamiliar with most tools and settings but as I
worked on, I became more aware of what I was doing and I
realised that without Photoshop, creating the pages as instructed
would have been a lot harder.
 Photoshop helped with getting everything in line and cropping
images to size as well as taking out the backgrounds and layering
text over images and vice versa.

5. Showcasing
 I was instructed to put everything on wikispaces that related to the
construction as well as the research of my magazine. Some tasks,
including this, required a more creative showcase by using a
website such as Slide share to present my work. Other than that, I
used Microsoft Power Point to present most my work, convert it to a
JPG. and upload it to my personal wiki page.