The document discusses the various technologies used during the process of creating a magazine product. During research, the internet was used to find existing magazines as examples. Planning involved file converters to change image formats and scanners to upload drawings. Production made heavy use of a DSLR camera, lighting in a studio, Photoshop to design the cover, and InDesign for page layout. A video camera captured audience reactions for evaluation. Blogging on Blogger allowed easy presentation of the final work.

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

2. Research
• Technology helped me
carry out my research, the
internet helped me find
existing magazines. I used
this to look at magazine
conventions to make my
project look professional.

3. Planning
• During the planning, technology helped me with
various things. File converters helped me convert
images so that I was able to use them in certain
formats. For example I converted a psd file into a jpg.
• I also used scanners, scanners enabled me to upload
drawn plans onto the blog.

4. Production
• The production stage was where technology was most useful.
• Cameras- I used a Nikon D60 to take my photographs. This gave me high quality photos to use in my
magazine to effect the audience. The camera had a number of settings which were effective. For
example the portrait mode blurred out the background and brought the model into focus.
• Lights- Some of my images were taken in a photography studio, this meant I had use of lighting to
create a more effective photo.
• Photoshop- Photoshop was very effective when designing the front cover. It was suitable to create
colour pallets for my text colour and edit images. It was also simple and created a very effective
front cover.
• Indesign- This was the program used when designing the contents page and double page spread. It
is effective for aligning text and placing images on a page. It was also useful for creating graphics to
make the page more attractive.

5. Video Camera
• I used a video camera to film a member of my
target audience’s reaction. This makes my
evaluation more exciting than just writing a lot
of text.

6. Blogging
• Blogging is a very effective and easy way to lay
out my work. Blogger is where all my work is
presented.