The student learned about various technologies through constructing their music magazine product. They used Photoshop to edit and manipulate images for the magazine cover and spreads. InDesign was used to integrate text and images on double page spreads. A DSLR camera and remote flashes were used to take photographs for the magazine. Online software like Google Docs, SlideShare, Prezi, QuickTime, and Blogger were also utilized to construct and present various aspects of the product. The student had to do independent research through YouTube tutorials to learn how to use Photoshop and InDesign since they lacked experience with many of the technologies at the start of the course.

1. Q6
What have you learnt about
technologies from the process
of constructing this product ?

2.  From constructing my production work I have
learnt a lot about various technologies. I have
come across software such as; desktop
publishing, Photoshop, professional DSLR’s in
terms of uploading material, flashes, lighting,
remote flashes as well as manipulating photos.
I’ve also learnt a lot about in design in terms of
constructing a double page spread and
integrating text with images, and excel.
 I’ve also learnt how to used online software that
was used to construct my product, by using
Google docs, slide share, prezi and QuickTime.

3. Photoshop was one of the first desktop
publishing software that I used to create
my product. I particularly used this
software to edit and manipulate images
for my magazine front cover, contents
page and double page spread.
The software Indesign was used to
construct my double page spread as well
as integrating text with images.

4. Manipulated image

5. During my production
work I used a DSLR
camera to take most of
the images that are in
my music magazine.
Remote flashes were
also used when taking
my photographs. This
was to change the
lighting effect that the
background had on
some pictures, making
the images brighter on
different angles when
taken.

6. Blogger is also an online software
that was used to present all of my
media coursework as well as my
production work.
Prezi is an online software
that helped me to
construct my presentation
in a flow of movement. As
it goes in-depth getting to
the point as it moves
around

7. This particular software was used to
send emails. Before I started this
course I didn't know what Google docs
were. But as time went on I begun to
familiarise myself with it.
QuickTime was used
to construct a screen
recording for my
evaluation on
question 1.
Slideshare is another form of an online
software that is purposely used on
blogs. It is very useful because its
compared as an online PowerPoint.

8.  At the beginning of this course I was unable to
use most of the technology that I have listed. To
enable me to use most of the software I had to
do some independent learning where by I
researched how to used Photoshop and Indesgn
by watching tutorials on YouTube.
 This then helped me to build an audience with
my production work as I dynamically developed
a range of techniques.