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Question Six
- 1. Question SixWhat haveyou learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?
- 2. Whilst planning, developingand producing my magazine I came across several different technologies which helped me do this. These were; Quark Xpress
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- 9. The internetQuark Xpress I used Quark Xpress in order to create my; cover, contents page, and double page spread, I found this programme a lot easier to use in order to create my magazine than it was to use Adobe Photoshop; I found Quark Xpress easy to use as it has relevant tools. Rather than putting the exact measurements of a page into the layout box there was the choice to click a pre-set one; A4, this is what I used for my magazine. After doing so I then added images, worked out the layout, and also the content of the magazines. Even during the first time that I used this programme I learnt efficiently; I found it easy to use, even during slightly complicated bits such as; installing fonts ect. I had help to learn how to install fonts, though eventually I got the hang of it and was able to finish my magazine independently. I found that with this programme I could make my magazine look professional and run smooth therefore, I found Quark Xpress extremely helpful and relevant to creating my magazine as it had all of the different tools that I needed in order to do so.
- 10. Adobe PhotoshopI wasalready familiar with Adobe Photoshop when I began to create my magazine; this is partly why I wanted to use Quark Xpress in order to create my actual magazine on, due to the extra sense of technology and tools that it offered. Although I didn’t use this programme in order to create my magazine; I used to edit and adapt any images that I used in my magazine; this programme allowed me to: change the brightness and contrasting of the images, crop them and also make them smaller or larger without any pixilation, it also allowed me to edit and delete any unnecessary things that were in the background of the image. Considering I chose to create my cover, contents page and double page spread I did find the image and text manipulation a lot easier and more efficient on Adobe Photoshop than it was on Quark Xpress; I found that there were more tools in order to do so which Quark Xpress lacked, but I felt that Quark Xpress was more relevant and gave my magazine a professional publishing style to it. I found that this programme was easy to use and extremely adaptable as to what you specifically wanted to do to the images on there, though overall I found the programme easy and adaptable I did come across a few complications due to the layering system that the programme has; I couldn’t get the hang of them at first but eventually I realised what I was doing wrong or what had to be done in order to make it correct.
- 11. Blogger.comWith this courseworktask I found Blogger.com extremely useful to use; it has been the main programme that I have used during it. I found it easy to keep track of my work using its online record system which we have kept all of our media work on and I have used it to update and record all of the work that I have done for this task and others so far it also allowed me to present my work in a clear and consistent way. In this task I have used Blogger.com to blog the production, research and planning and also post production on my magazine. I found it easy to use and to sign up for it; and also to maintain anything that needs doing or updating on my magazine; I think Blogger.com is an excellent source for recording work with. The fact that you can embed videos and slideshows as well as add images to it; helped me a lot with the project as it allowed me to narrate and show how I did things and also find different technologies in order to do so.