The document discusses the various technologies and software the author learned in creating their media product. They gained experience with presentation software like PowerPoint and Prezi, photo editing tools like Photoshop and Befunky, and page layout software like QuarkXPress. They also discuss taking on roles like photographer, graphic designer, and journalist. The author found learning QuarkXPress and Prezi particularly challenging but felt they gained valuable skills from using these programs to make their media product look professional.

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

2. Throughout making my media product, I worked on lots of different software's, technologies and
power points which in some cases I had only just learnt about, they were:
• PRESENTATIONS:
Adobe Premiere pro
Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2007
Prezi http://prezi.com
Slideshare http://www.slideshare.net
QuarkXPress 7
Microsoft Office Word 2007
• PHOTOGRAPHS:
Fujifilm FinePix JX550 Red Digital Camera
• EDITING PHOTOGRAPHS:
Befunky http://www.befunky.com/
Adobe Photoshop CS2
Adobe Photoshop CS6
• FEEDBACK:
Facebook www.facebook.com

3. Different roles
I had to take on different roles whilst producing my media products roles like;
Journalism, photographer, graphic designer, proof reader, designer and editor. All of
which I found fun to do, some more then others though, but all just as important as I
was able to produce my media product so that it would look professional as possible.
My favourite role was a journalist because although it was probably one of the
hardest things to do whilst producing my media product but it was really fun to be
able to do things independently and that meant sorting out interviews with band
members and then being able to write it out. But the experience was really exciting.
Although, some of the journalist was boring, like producing questions for the double
paged spread so that my interview was the best it could possibly be and essentially
being entertaining for the audience so that they would want to read the interview.
Photography was quite hard since I had to make sure the angles were right and that
the pictures that I took fit into the genre of the magazine, so I had to prevent my
pictures from coming across as part of a fashion magazine and to look like a music
magazine. Also, had to be in control of the photo shoot, so that meant choosing
certain positions. The photographs were the main part of the magazine in which if
the photographs looked bad it meant that the whole magazine would look
unprofessional.

4. Blogging
I used blogger to keep track of all my work and
putting up all my work that I had done. I made sure
my work was up to date and organised so that I
could get the best grade I could get for the entire
thing. I made sure that all my work was on the blog
and kept track of my research and my planning for
my magazine. As well as the evaluations which were
about 50% of my work. The blogger allowed me to
use certain websites like Slideshare and Prezi to
upload my work. The meant I had to find to the
code and them pasting it onto the HTML.

5. QuarkXPress
QuarkXPress is something that I had never used
before so it meant that I had to spend more time
trying to figure out how to use it but after a while I
got to grips with how to use it. I used it for my
content page and my double paged spread. I am just
glad that I now understand QuarkXPress as it meant
I could make my content page and double paged
spread as professional as possible, I could not do the
content page and double paged spread without
QuarkXPress. It helped me organise my media
products in a more professional way. I was able to
grasp the idea of how professional magazines are
made and that I could make a professional magazine
by myself which was very impressive in my opinion. I
am now confident with using QuarkXPress.

6. Photoshop
I used Photoshop a lot throughout making my media
product like editing my front cover and editing the
sizes of pictures or the colour. Photoshop was
something I was familiar with as I had used it before
but since my media product it meant I could progress
my skills and now I am much more confident when it
comes to Photoshop.

7. Prezi
Prezi is a presentation software that allows you to
make presentations to get your ideas across. I used
Prezi through out my media product, I had never used
Prezi before so it took me a while to figure it out but
after messing around with it I found it quite creative
and fun to use. I like using Prezi as you are able to
make your writing look a lot more exciting then just
writing it on Microsoft word, and it is also just another
way to get your ideas and work come across in more
of an attractive way by using colours, sizes, adding
pictures, using different shapes, arrows.

8. Slideshare
Slideshare was a good as most of my work I would use
was a power point and although I had never used it
before it was easy to use as you just had to upload
your work and then copy the HTML onto your blog
and then it would come up. The only bad thing about
Slideshare was the fact that I was unable to upload
any moving images or sound and you had to fit the
writing further up as it would cut the bottom and miss
off some of the writing so I had to make sure I had the
writing further up. But overall I liked using slide share.