The student learned to use several technologies while creating their media product, including a digital camera, scanner, Adobe Photoshop, Microsoft PowerPoint, and the internet. Specifically, the student practiced with their camera, learned to edit photos in Photoshop, created presentations in PowerPoint, researched using Google, developed their blog on Blogspot, and presented work using SlideShare and Scribd. The process taught the student new skills in various software and strengthened their understanding of technologies for media creation.

1. What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?During the making of my product I used a range of different technologies:Digital Camera (for taking the actual photos)

2. Scanner (to scan in my similar magazines

3. Adobe Photoshop (to make the magazines and edit photos)

4. Microsoft Office Powerpoint (to put together powerpoints for the blog)

5. Internet Explorer (Google, BlogSpot, Slide share, dafont.com, Scribd and company websites such as countryweekly.com)What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?Digital Camera:The camera I used was my own. It is a Fujifilm Finepix AX280 14 megapixel camera. During the creation of my product, I learnt a lot about my camera. Mainly I learned how to use it well and effectively.Using it I also learnt more about lighting, shot types, camera angles and backdrops.I practised a lot with the camera shown in my blog as test shoots, I did that all to ensure the best possible results from my actual shoot.The high quality of this camera and the photographs it produces allowed me to take very good photos of almost as good quality of photos produced using a SLR digital camera.

6. What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?Scanner:I used my scanner to scan in the magazines that I already owned that were of the same genre as my magazine. The scanner was also used to scan in my drawings, the drawings were of my original ideas for the magazine in the designing stages of creation of my product. Doing this I learnt not only how to use my scanner properly but also how to use the programs that I used to scan the scans in with. Some scans are shown below.

7. What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?Adobe Photoshop:Prior to this project I had never used Adobe Photoshop before. Using it in this project. Photoshop was the main program I used throughout the creation of my product, from start in creating my Preliminary task, to end creating my final media product.Every single one of the photos I used on my product were edited in Photoshop in some way. Some more than others however as the picture that is supposedly taken whilst the artist in performing in concert in front of thousands of people had a background entirely created using Photoshop.

8. What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?Microsoft Office Powerpoint:Powerpoint also played a vital role in the creation of my media product, as Powerpoint is the main program I used to record the creation of my media product. I then presented my Powerpoints using Scribd or Slide share on my blog.