The document discusses various software and hardware used for a project. Blogger was used to create a website to store all work. Photoshop allowed for professional magazine design through tools like rulers and color pickers. InDesign created professional layouts for magazines and leaflets using columns and drop caps. SurveyMonkey gathered audience data through an online survey. Excel analyzed survey data through charts. PowerPoint presented this data clearly. Word typed written work. Prezi created flowing presentations between slides. Slideshare and Flipsnack published documents online. A computer processed software demands. An iPhone 5S took images and video. A Canon 700D took high quality main images through customizable settings.

1. Technologies
Software
Blogger
I used this software to create one area where all my work can be stored and easily viewed and is very is to
navigate creating flow for the user. This software has many features such as labels and embedding external
features into the pages. These features created a functioning website that was very useful storing all my work
completed on the project in one place. The website was very reliable in provide its service to my project.
Adobe Photoshop
This software is fantastic in allowing me to create professional looking content by having a wide range of features
and tools. It allowed me to design my magazine efficiently with tools such as rulers and colour picker speeding up
the production process. The software’s complexity was a challenge at first but after a few hours I mastered the
software to complete the task. I used this for many different task but mainly my Front cover and Contents page.
Adobe InDesign
InDesign is a software focused for the production of leaflets and any written content such as a magazine double
page spread. This software allowed me to create professional looking design. This software worked exactly how I
wanted and functioned effectively with many features and tools such as the drop cap tool and the feature
allowing the text to be split into columns. This software worked well but did take some time to master.
SurveryMonkey
SurveryMonkey was only used once but it was essential for gathering the data needed to complete important design
decisions. As an online survey it allowed me to publish the survey and collect a large number of results in a short
period of time. It also showed breakdowns of the results which helped give a general idea until I
transferred them to a more suited software. One negative was some respondents were unhelping e.g.
unwanted respondents, receiving over 50% 13-17 year olds with an 18-45-year-old target audience.
Microsoft Excel
Excel worked really well for creating charts from the respondent’s data from the questionnaire. It had useful
features such as the editable charts and a wide range of chart choice. I have a lot of past experience with this
software and it’s why I chose to use it as I know it’s reliable and its functionality is excellent. The only downside
is its awkward when it comes to presentation so the charts had to be copied over to a more useful software.
Microsoft PowerPoint
This software allowed me to present my questionnaire data in an easy to use format which left the data looking
clear and space to analyse the results. This software had many useful features such as compatibility with the
Microsoft Excel software allowing the Excel file to have the document data imbedded in the PowerPoint file.
This software is excellent in creating a presentation and can be made into a video for presenting.
Microsoft Word
This software allowed me to type up my written work and was great as it had many features such as a wide
range of fonts and layout options. I used this to type up almost all of my evaluation work as it is the most
useful software on the market and it can be published into a PDF file so it can be uploaded to a file sharing
website without being modified.

2. Prezi
This software allowed me to create a presentation that looked attractive and flowed well between
slides. This software was browser based and often crashed but when it was working it was perfect. As
this was the first time id used the software it was a challenge at first but after a while it became easy to
use. This software had lots of useful tools such as the transition tool allowing for the attractive design.
Slideshare & Flipsnack
These two pieces of software were very simple in allowing me to upload and publish documents. They
only took PDF’s which was an advantage in being un-editable and universally available. They also
allowed the option to embed files into websites which was perfect for the blogger posts.
Hardware
Computer
I used this hardware as it was essential to complete all of my work from production to
research this tool was incomparably important to the project. This hardware allowed
me to create my products and publish them online. As I’ve had a lot of experience with
PCs before it was easy to adapt to the college PC’s. The PCs were powerful enough to
process the demand of the software which made the production process quicker. My
only complaint would be the access to better monitors to show true colour and
definition in the magazine design do it is easier to design and analysis.
IPhone 5S
I used this hardware to take one image for my contents page and a video for an evaluation. The hardware has
a high quality camera for small scale images. I used this hardware as it was convenient and easy to transport.
This hardware was easy to use as it is my phone that I use daily. The video was done using this again as it was
easy to access and set up. It also has a good quality mic and completed the job without any hassle.
Canon 700D
I used this hardware to take all my main images. This hardware is a very high quality camera. It is
very useful with a wide range of customizable features such as the ability to change shutter speed,
contrast, aperture, focus, focal length, and zoom. This was the best piece of hardware available to
create the images and it worked perfectly. It took a while to master as I lacked experience in the
hardware due to the cost of such equipment.