What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product? AS Media - Josh Webb

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3. Throughout my process of creating my media product I have been recording it all on Blogger.com. This has allowed me
to show all of my research and planning in a way that wouldn’t otherwise be possible. I had never used blogger before
creating my magazine, however luckily it wasn’t difficult to master as it comes included with very simple navigation and
creation tools, so I was able to create my blog with ease. Blogger also incorporates the use of HTML, which I had very
little practise with in the past, however this also turned out to be simple to use when I needed to use it. Mainly to
embed items or edit the size of things. This was simple enough to use and get used to. With blogger I was able to save
all of my work to edit in the future and schedule to post when I was ready to. This meant that nothing would go up
onto my blog unfinished leaving it look professionally made. I have never used technology to showcase my work and
this has proven to me how convenient it is to store my work online, with hard back-ups of course, just incase. I was also
able to suitable organise my posts into different sections so similar posts could be grouped together and make it a lot
easier to find the posts I wanted to.
Labels Tab to quickly navigate
Example of
blog posts ->

4. One of the most important pieces of software I have used to create my Media Product, was Adobe Photoshop.
This quickly became a very vital part of my working process as it made sure I was able to create and edit my
magazines. I did have prior knowledge of using this software before creating my magazine which helps a lot, as if I
didn’t it could have taken a long while for me to learn how to use it. Photoshop made it possible to create my
product and I wouldn’t have been able to make the magazine without it. Although I already knew the basics of
using Photoshop, this experience has really made me a lot more proficient with it. I can now use Photoshop with
ease to create anything that I could possible want to. The tools included such as lasso, shapes, gradient, eraser and
many more made it a much easier job to make this product. By using these tools, I was also able to perfect new
techniques that also made it much easier to complete the magazine and adjust and edit the images to my liking.
Photoshop made my products look professional and seem like they were expertly created. Without Photoshop or
the knowledge to use it, the task of creating a magazine would have proven painfully difficult.

5. The camera I used to take my images is called the ‘Canon EOS 600D’ which is a very
expensive professional camera. They are often used by professional photographers so it
proved to be a learning curve to use it for someone like me who’s only camera
experience is with a smartphone. Despite this I was able to quickly learn how to use the
camera well, with the exception of my first photoshoot where I ended up focusing in the
wrong place which ended up with me having very blurry images. However in the end I
was able take some very nice photographs with little to no camera experience in my past,
so I think it all worked out well with the cameras.

6. Prior to this course I had never used an Apple PC in my life so in the beginning it took
me a short while to initially get used to them and learn the differences between them an
Windows PCs, which is what I was used to. It turned out that when paired with Adobe
Photoshop, I was able to seamlessly create professional looking images with the iMacs. I
was also able to use the iMacs to easily edit videos with, which also turned out very
professional-like. In the end I was quickly able to get used to Apple computers, even
though I thought it would be difficult to switch between Windows and OSX everyday,
which it was but I slowly got used to it. I also found it difficult to adjust to the large
screen and tiny keyboards which just made it difficult to use, however I really enjoyed the
ease of use with the 4-way scroll on the Apple mice, as they made scrolling through page
much easier.

7. • Prezi
Prezi is an online presentation creator, which makes it easy to create professional looking
presentations without having to know how to use it. I was able to use this to display some of
my evaluation questions and it also provided me with the code to embed the presentations
onto my blog.
• Powtoon
Powtoon is another presentation software that can be found online, however this one is a lot
more difficult to use, but with its wide range of functions you can create some great
presentations with it.
• Slideshare
Slideshare is a site where you can upload your premade presentation onto the internet to share
to other places. I will be using it to upload this slideshow and then embed it into my blog site.
All of these have their separate features and make different things possible online and allow
them to be embedded in different location. E.g on Blogger.