I learned how to use various technologies to construct my media product: Wix allowed me to create my own website and learn how to add pages, images, text and videos. Photoshop taught me how to edit images, crop them, change colors and fonts, and use layers. YouTube was used to upload and embed interviews to inform the target audience analysis and media product design.

1. Question Six
What have you learnt about
technologies in the process of
constructing this product?

2. WIX
 To present my work, I used a cloud-based web development platform that
allowed me to create my own website. Having not used this platform
before, I had to learn how to make pages as well as insert things such as
images, text and videos. I learnt to create buttons that would link
different pages.
 I also learnt to present my work well by using the App Market to present my
Similar Text Analyses, with Description Dots. This makes the work
presented easier to read as it is not presented in blocks of text, but
rather in interactive means that can be found interesting and showcase
my media skills.
 The use of this technology allowed me to present my coursework.

3. How to add pages
To add text, image and
videos you must select the
‘add’ option, the plus, on
the sidebar
How to add ‘Description
Dots’ from the App Market

4. Photoshop: CS6
 To construct my media product, I had to learn how to use Photoshop CS6. I learnt
to edit my images, for example turning the main image on the cover to black
and white. For this I used Adobe Bridge CC and the ‘Adjustments’ option on
the ‘Image’ header. This option allows me control features such as the contrast
and saturation.
 To edit my images I also had to crop them to rid the of their backgrounds. For this
I used the ‘Quick Selection Tool.’
 For the main image of my contents page I also had to use the ‘Paint Bucket Tool.’ I
had to first crop the image and then paint the background a light grey colour
so that it would stand out on a plain white background.
 I also learnt how to add text and to change its colour. By learning how to change
the font of that text, I could represent my intended genre.
 The ‘Advanced Text Tool’ further allowed me to control the text on my
construction pieces. The available option of adjusting the spaces between
each letters and lines mad my media product look more professional,
attracting my target audience who are of a mature nature (male and females
between 16 and 40).
 I also used layers in my media product to arrange everything in the appropriate
order ensuring there are no overlaps. This also makes sure that text is layered
above the images, rather than hidden beneath them.

5. How to crop images: found on the
menu bar along the left
How to colour things and paint
backgrounds
Controlling Layers
How to edit images

6. YouTube
 I recorded two interviews
for my Target Audience
Research and analysed
them to construct my
media product in favour
of my target audiences
preferences.
 I then uploaded those
videos to YouTube to
embed these onto my
WIX page.

7. YouTube
 I recorded two interviews
for my Target Audience
Research and analysed
them to construct my
media product in favour
of my target audiences
preferences.
 I then uploaded those
videos to YouTube to
embed these onto my
WIX page.