The document discusses the technologies and skills the author learned during the process of constructing products for their AS media course. They learned how to use a DSLR camera, including considerations for lighting, backgrounds, and using a flash. They also learned when different camera types are appropriate. Additionally, the author learned about portrait and landscape images and that high quality images often don't require extensive editing. Through creating a college magazine and music magazine, the author developed skills in Photoshop and InDesign, such as brightening and colorizing images. They also learned how to use online applications like Prezi, SlideShare, and Blogger for presentations.

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

2. I used a DSLR camera to take
pictures of my main
model, before this project I had
never used one of these cameras
so I learnt quite a lot. I had to
think about lighting and
background, as well as choosing
whether to use a flash or not. I
used a compact digital camera to
take images of the other model. I
already knew how to use a
compact camera since it’s an
everyday use camera, but whilst
using this I also learnt when it is
appropriate to use flash and
when it isn’t. During this project I
also learnt what type of images
look good landscape and which
look good portrait. And
also, because the quality of
these images were really good I
learnt that they do not need to
be edited too much.

3. Before AS media, I hadn’t ever used PhotoShop or InDesign before, my skills in using
these two programs developed first by creating the college magazine, but then I really
got into using it properly whilst creating the music magazine. One of the images that I
photo-shopped was the image on the contents page, another image which I photo
shopped quite a bit was the image used on my cover page.
As you can see from these two images, I brightened it As you can see from these two images I photo
up, and then chose to change the image from black shopped the picture quite a lot. I cropped the
and white into colour. image, the I brightened it quite a bit.

4. I also used how to use online applications such as
prezi and slide share. Before this project I had never
used these, but once I got started I found out that
they are quite easy to use and effective ways to
present. Also, before this project I had never used
blogger before, which at first I found hard than later
discovered it isn’t as hard as I thought it to be.