Through constructing a music magazine, the author learned several technologies. They learned how to use Photoshop to manipulate and edit images and text to make them eye-catching and professional looking for the target audience. They also learned how to use rulers and guides to accurately place elements on pages. The author learned how to blog and upload documents using Eblogger and Slideshare. They also learned how to take clear, focused, and professional-looking photographs using a Nikon camera, including using the grid and rule of thirds.

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

2. Through the process of constructing my media product
I have learnt many things about the technologies that I
have used on the way to create my music magazine.
Firstly, I have learned a lot about Photoshop and all the
different aspects of the software, I have learned how to
manipulate images and make them become more eye
catching, I have learned how to edit text in certain ways
so that it doesn’t look like dull, uninteresting text
through the use colours and resizing. I have also
learned from Photoshop how to put together a full
magazine front cover, contents page and double page
spread and make them look professional and suitable
for a target audience. Through the use of rulers and
guides I have learned how to place accurate text and
images onto a page without it looking untidy and
unprofessional.

3. The website ‘Eblogger’ has taught me how to blog my work
documents whether it was a text document or image also with
the help of ‘Slideshare’ which also allowed me to learn how to
upload my documents onto its website, for example, a document
on the analysis of a music magazine front cover.
When putting my magazine together I had to take photographs
on a professional Nikon camera which allowed me to take clear
and focused images which looked professional. I learned how to
add the grid on the screen of the camera so I could achieve rule of
thirds accurately and also how to put an image in focus so that it
did not look blurry and unprofessional.