Stan Shirokiy created pages for a school magazine coursework project. He used a camera to take photos and record videos for feedback. Photoshop was the most useful program for editing images, text, and laying out the front cover, contents page, and double page spread. Some layout work was done on paper and scanned into the computer. Additional editing of images and fonts was done using online tools like Befunky and Dafont. PowerPoint was used to present feedback and analyze other magazines. Slideshare was used to upload the PowerPoint presentation to a blog. In conclusion, Photoshop was most useful overall, while InDesign was least useful.

1. Stan Shirokiy

2. I have used camera in order to take pictures for
the pages. I would also use the camera in order
to record a video of my friends, who would give
their feedback on the final piece. I had to make
sure that the camera which I have used would
produce good and high quality images which
would prevent my mark being decreased.

3. Photoshop, had been the most useful programme that I
have used in order to create the three pages for my
coursework. I have gained some experience, whilst
making the front cover and contents page for school
magazine and then applied my skills for the ‘real’ task. The
functions that I was able to do included: edit images, edit
text and put all of the information together.

4. Some of the work, I have preferred to create
using a pen and some paper instead of typing
up on the computer. Largely it was the layout of
all of three pages, students voted on to choose
what was their favourite layout was. The
scanner, helped me by transforming the paper
onto the computer, that later on could be
posted online.

5. I did not find using InDesign particularly useful, as I have
used it only once in order to edit the columns on the double
page spread. The programme is very similar to
Photoshop, which meant that most of the work could be
done on either one programme or the other.

6. Befunky is the website, which edits the image that you would choose. I
have used Befunky only once, but it helped my image for the front
cover to be more eye-catching and ‘different’. On the website, there is
a vast amount of different functions that could be done, but I have
only found one that would suite the type of genre for my magazine.
Below, shows to images, on the left hand side, before I have the
website, and on the right hand side, is the result.

7. This is the website where you can change the font of the text. I
have found the website particular useful as it helped the pages to
look more interesting and fascinating, by using eye- catching
fonts. The most useful part of using the website, had been finding
out a specific font which would reflect on the genre of my music
magazine. Even though, colour editing had been done using
Photoshop, the font itself and general idea on how it could be
edited had been taken from dafont.com. Furthermore, I have
asked a number of student to comment and pick their favourite
font that would suite the magazine, and, below, is the screen shot
which shows the process of choosing the appropriate font, for
all, front cover, contents page and the double page spread.

8. On my blog, I have used PowerPoint a couple of times, but
mainly in order to show the audience feedback statistically-
by providing pie charts and analysing them. The process of
producing material on PowerPoint is not only much quicker
but also efficient in comparison with either typing on Word or
Blogger itself. On PowerPoint I have also covered- analysing
the pages and briefly studying one of the magazine which is
relevant to genre of my magazine which have been
produced. On the slide I would how I was able to transform
the work that had been on the PowerPoint online. Below, is
an example:

9. Even though there is not much to be mentioned about the website, the
reason on why I had to use it, is to change the format on the PowerPoint
so it could be transformed online- onto my Blog. The process of posting
and signing up very quick, but the reason why I have used Slideshare is
to make the Blog more interesting by using a wider range of
technologies.

10.  To conclude, I have found Photoshop as the
most useful programme because all three pages-
front cover, contents page and double page
spread had been created using Photoshop. The
functions which I was able to do using
Photoshop were- edit the size and the font of
the text, edit images and also the title. On the
other hand, InDesign, had been the least useful
during the process of making the pages, as
mentioned, I have only used it once.

11.  Through the use of different types of
technologies, I was able to gain some experience
especially from using PhotoShop, which would
help me in the future tasks. Throughout the
process, the requirement of using the internet
had been high, which lead me finding new
websites which I have not used before-
Dafont.com, Slideshare etc. Overall I feel much
more confident and the technologies have
helped me to make a good quality product.