The document discusses the various hardware and software technologies used to create a music magazine. It describes using an iMac computer running macOS and software like Photoshop, Safari, PowerPoint, and InDesign. Hardware such as the Nikon D3100 and Panasonic DMC FS16 cameras along with additional equipment like strobe lights and soft boxes were used to take professional quality photos for editing in Photoshop. Word was used to write articles which were then incorporated into pages designed in InDesign. Throughout the process, Safari was used for research and a blog hosted work to keep it organized.

1. TECHNOLOGY – WHAT
HAVE YOU LEARNT ABOUT
TECHNOLOGIES FROM THE
PROCESS OF
CONSTRUCTING
THIS PRODUCT?

2. HARDWARE + SOFTWARE
• Hardware, in the computer world, refers to the physical
components that make up a computer system. There
are many different kinds of hardware that can be
installed inside, and connected to the outside, of a
computer, For example a computer mouse or camera.
• In contrast Software is anything that is electronically
stored inside the Hardware this could be a programme
such as word and safari or an operating system like
windows XP.

3. HARDWARE- COMPUTER
• Before producing my music magazine I had never
used an apple mac computer. For this project I
used an IMac with an Intel core 2 duo running at
2GHz this allowed me to run and gave me access
to essential pieces of software such as Photoshop,
Safari and PowerPoint which I needed in order to
produce both my cover, contents and article pages
as well as researching music magazines and then
writing evaluations and reflecting on my own
magazine.
• To navigate through this piece of hardware, I used
an apple mouse this allowed me to select the
software I needed to form my media product.
• I also used an apple keyboard this allowed me to
type the whole of my article with quick speed.

4. HARDWARE-CAMERA
• Another piece of hardware I have used to produce
my media magazine Is a camera. For my cover
and article pages I used the Nikon D3100 with 14.2
megapixel's I was able to take detailed close ups
of my artist. The quality of the pictures taken really
helped later on when it came to Photoshop in order
to edit them keeping its clear high definition focus.
This gave my magazine a professional look I
wanted.
• The second camera I used was the Panasonic
DMC FS16 this was a light weight camera with 14
megapixels this meant it had enough camera
quality as well allowing me to go places I would not
wish to carry the heavier more expensive Nikon
D3100 I used these photos for the contents pages
which did not magnify the lack of quality. I also
knew this camera very well adapting the shutter
speed for a blurred light affect shown here:

5. CAMERA EQUIPMENT
• To help me take clear pictures, which I would then go on to
edit on Photoshop, I used hemisphere 300 strobe light this
allowed me to create a shadowed affect on the artists face
as well lighting them up to have a clear photo of them.
With this one here I wanted this shadowed affect with it
being very light on one side. The strobe light was easy to
maneuver so I adjusted it several times before finding the
perfect shot that I wanted.
• By using a soft box I could soften the feel of the image this
brought more color and life to the artist in the image
without making the shadows unnatural and too harsh this
could have ruined my magazine as the image is an
essential part of my magazine helping me to achieve this
professional look.
• For my cover and article I used a white backdrop this gave
a professional look and didn’t take anything away from the
artist in the image it also allowed me to get the lighting ust
right.

6. MORE HARDWARE USED IN PHOTO-SHOOT
• I used a white back drop which was lit with
another two strobe lights to create a high
exposure picture which I need for my cover and
article page and gave it a professional look
unlike a none plain background such as a brick
wall etc.
• By Combining the horseshoe flash trigger, which
sent an infra red signal to the strobe to flash in
precise sync with the camera shutter. It allowed
me to arrange the angle of the flash to be taken
from another side other than directly from the
camera this meant I could form a slight shadow
on the main artists face. I did this because it
shows that Courtney Black has a dark side to her
and this is viewed as cool in the rock world.

7. SOFTWARE- PHOTOSHOP
• Throughout the producing of my music magazine I used Photoshop to
craft and bring all the different pieces of software together to form
each page of my media product.
• I also used it to edit my models by clearing their faces of
imperfections and fixing the cameras faults for example here with red
eye. By using the red eye tool on Photoshop.
• Photoshop allowed me too create my own magazines feel, by using
the variety of colours, text, images and the layout I was able to create
a personality for my magazine. For example throughout the magazine
I have used the same colour scheme this gave a rock like attitude and
feel to my media product. I could of only done this effectively on
Photoshop as I could easily arrange individual pieces of software with
its layered system. For example I could play and adjust the image
without it affecting any of my text. I also was able to put these
individual layers into groups to make it easier to maneuver like here
by grouping them together I saved myself time and effort. It took me a
while to get the hang of it having never used Photoshop before but
this was time well spent as I could not have used any other piece of
software to produce the same kind of results.

8. WORD
• Word played a crucial part in the
making of my media product as I typed
the whole of my article page on here to
then transfer onto InDesign.
• Word specializes in text work and
made it very easy for me to type the
interview with Alice Burns that I
needed for my article page. The article
was 757 words, I realized Photoshop
would have struggled to deal with me
typing this as I had experienced
throughout the producing of the music
magazine that it struggle as when it
came to dealing with the writing of the
contents page it struggled.

9. INDESIGN
• I used InDesign only for my article as this had a large chunk of text. InDesign allowed
me to combine the background of graphics and headlines that I created on Photoshop
and put the 757 words I had typed on word to form my article page. Photoshop would
have struggled to deal with the mass of text I needed in my interview and word would
not be able to do a double page spread with the graphics in the background. I
experienced the struggle of text on Photoshop in creating my contents page, this was no
more 80 words and it could not handle it. although it is a great piece of software it
doesn’t deal with text well with it becoming a complicated mess.

10. SAFARI
• I used safari in order to research and gather ideas that I would use to
inspire me and craft new ideas I could use for my magazine.
Throughout the forming of my magazine I used safari to upload my
progress to my blog on WordPress. I now believe safari is better than
google chrome or other search engines as everything was a lot easier
to access things such as commonly used sites, favorites and search
history. Over the course of the project I came to the conclusion that its
much better with pop ups and viruses being blocked by apple. I found
this extremely reassuring knowing I could search any site for
inspiration without it being dangerous.
PowerPoint
I used PowerPoint to analyse the work I did and eventually to explain why I did
what I did in the evaluation. I used PowerPoint for the majority of the analysis
questions including this one as it gave a clear cut structure and enabled me to
categorize and separate each question and point of view focusing on different
sections of the question.

11. MY BLOG
• My blog allowed me to put all my work in one place and to keep it organized. From the
start I used my blog to make it easy for both my teacher and myself to see what I had
done and what I needed to do. This meant I would know what I need to improve and add
onto my magazine. I accessed this through safari