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

2. Internet
I used the internet a lot when creating my media product. It
allowed me to gather information and images which I needed
during preparation and when I was actually making my product.
The main websites I used when creating my magazine were:
• Prezi
• Blogspot

3. Prezi
Prezi was a website I used to display my work rather than just being written in
paragraphs. It allowed me to create spider diagrams where I could include
images. Some of the things I learnt from using Prezi when creating my
magazine:
 How to embed a Prezi onto my blog; simply by copying a link and posting it
 Creating a path so my Prezi could have an order to it
 How to insert images into my Prezi and how to re-size/move them
This has benefitted the production of my magazine as it has enabled me to
display my work in a new, interesting way. By using a spider diagram with a
path, I could easily look back at what I had wrote without having to read
through paragraphs to find the thing that I was looking for. This helped me to
save time, which I could put into making my product instead.

4. Blogspot
Blogspot has been a very useful website whilst producing my magazine as it
has helped me to publish my work and to have it set out in a chronological
order – showing the progression of my product. Some of the things I learnt to
do on Blogspot were:
 How to embed Prezis, YouTube videos, Powerpoints, comic strips and posters
 How to insert images into my posts
 Alter the layout of my posts
Blogspot has brought a lot of advantages to when I was creating my
magazine. It enabled me to display my work in an effective way which
demonstrated my progress. By displaying it in chronological order, I could see
where I was up to, and what needed to be done.

5. YouTube
Before I started this project, I used YouTube when watching videos or listening to
music. However, once I had used it for my product, I learnt a lot more about it:
• How to publish a video made on Movie Maker onto my channel
• How to embed videos into my blog posts
• Alter the information of my video – e.g. making it public or private
YouTube has benefitted my production of my final product widely. It allowed me to
see how people of a certain music genre are targeted through music videos. This
helped me to create the representation of social groups that I wanted in order to
make my magazine effective for its target audience. It also benefitted my
production as I could create my own video on social groups which could then be
embedded onto my blog. This makes my blog look interesting and professional
rather than just a paragraph of written words. If I had done that, I would have took
me longer to do where I could have been improving my work instead.

6. Adobe Photoshop
Before I started this production I didn’t have any idea of how to use
Photoshop. After I had created my final product however, my knowledge
grew of the program.
• How to edit my images effectively – adding gradients and changing the colour to
make my image look more professional
• How to convert images to a JPEG file so it was compatible
• How to insert my images into Movie Maker, Prezi and my blog
All of these skills helped to benefit my production. It helped me to create
a professional looking photo which I could use for my magazine making it
look more appealing. The skills I learnt through the production will come
in useful in the future if I do another project similar to this. Photoshop was
simple to use and benefitted my product a huge amount.

7. Movie Maker
I had used Movie Maker a few times before I started this project but only had little
knowledge of how it worked. Through this production I learnt how to:
 Import music and images into my videos
 How to caption over the images so I could add some description
 Moving the slides into a chronological order that would make sense
 How to cut and fade out music onto certain slides
 Using the animations on my video to make it more appealing. This included transitions etc.
 How to make a slide longer or shorter depending on the content on the slide
All of these skills did benefit my production and also increased my knowledge of the
program. I could create a professional looking video that could be published onto
YouTube where I could then embed it onto my blog. The program was easy to use and
it was actually fun to create a movie.

8. I found all of this software extremely useful for the production of my final
product. All of them made my blog look more interesting and appealing with a
wide range of different posts. This helped me to create a professional
product, that matched my professional looking blog. It also increased my
knowledge of programs which hopefully I will be able to put into practice in
the future.