The document discusses technologies used in creating a magazine project. It summarizes learning Photoshop skills like text effects and familiarity with PowerPoint for assembling images and explanations. A SurveyMonkey questionnaire provided audience insights on magazine preferences. A Nikon camera was used to take high quality images instead of a phone, since images are important to audiences. Work was saved to a SanDisk pen drive to easily transfer between home and college.

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

2. Photoshop is a program I’m familiar with because I have been working with it
for over 5 years on my spare time because I have always been interesting in
photography.
Making this magazine has only been the basic for me when it comes to
Photoshop, I knew how to do pretty much everything which made it fast and
easy for me to build up this magazine.
But something I wasn’t used to was to work with so much text and I learned
how you can put different shadows and frames around the text by using the
‘Layer Style tool’ you can find if you double click on the text layer.

3. PowerPoint has been really helpful for me during the
whole process, because it’s fast and easy if you want to
put images together for a post or write some short
explanations for different task. Another thing which is
good is that you can put your work on SlideShare so you
can use it as a normal PowerPoint instead of saving all the
slides as images.
It’s not really hard to work with and really quick and easy
so you can save time for other work.
I have used PowerPoint before so I know how it works, at
least the basic, because I prefer to keep it clean and
simple.
I used it to make my LIIAR analysis, my mood boards and
my evaluation.

4. I have been using SlideShare one time before I used it
on my media studies so I knew how it worked. I didn’t
use it a lot for my media either but it has been good to
use for my PowerPoint’s I’ve been making for my
evaluation.

5. I used Survey Monkey to make a questionnaire about music and pop magazines,
which I later shared on FaceBook for my friends to answer. Through the survey I got
to things like what my audience think my magazine should be called, what make
them pay attention to a magazine and which pop artists they prefer.
The answers a got helped me a lot because I got to know how I should build up my
magazine according to what my audience likes. This make it much easier to know how
to make your magazine appeal to the audience, which is really important because
you make the magazine for the audience and they are the ones you want to get
attention from to be able to sell your product.
I had never used it before so I wasn’t sure how to handle it at the beginning but it
didn’t take long to understand how to use it, all I did was to test different things and
look through all the alternatives you got and then chose what’s best for your survey.

6. MY QUESTIONS

8. Instead of using a bad mobile phone camera to take my images I used
my own Nikon D3100 to take pretty much all of the images I used in
my magazine. Because I wanted to make my magazine look as realistic
and professional as I could. After looking at my survey I did on Survey
Monkey, one of the big things that the audience say they pay most
attention to on a magazine is the images, so that’s why I thought It was
important with good quality images.

9. Pen drive
I used a 16 GB SanDisk pen drive to save my work on so
I easily could bring my work between college and
home. I do also have PhotoShop, PowerPoint and Word
on my own Mac computer at home so I did some work
at home but also brought my computer to college
because I prefer to use my own PhotoShop.