During his coursework, the student used various platforms to research and create his magazine, including Microsoft Word and PowerPoint for organizing his work. He also used Photoshop and InDesign for the first time to create the magazine cover, contents page, and double page spread, learning skills like using layers and rulers. Additionally, he used SurveyMonkey to conduct a survey of his target audience, and learned how to use SlideShare, SoundCloud, YouTube, and DaFont to include multimedia elements in his blog.

1. During my coursework I have used various different platforms to research and
create my magazine. I used Microsoft Word and PowerPoint which I have
used many times before, these were for my research to organise and make
sure my work was easy to understand.
I also used Photoshop and InDesign for the first time to create my front
cover, contents page and double page spread.
Another tool I used was Survey Monkey for my survey to be able to find
out my target audience.

2. I had already used Microsoft Word
and PowerPoint many times in the
past, meanwhile Photoshop and
InDesign were completely new to
me but by the end of my coursework
I had learned many different things
about both programmes such as in
Photoshop how to operate the tool bar
and how to create different layers to
make it easier to edit the document, I
used rulers to position the images or
elements precisely. I also learnt how
to edit the images using adjustments
to get the best out the image as
possible.
I also used Photoshop as well as
InDesign when making my double
page spread, I used an area of the
background of the image I was going
to use and pasted to the other side
of the page and blurred them together
to make the both pages have the

3. In InDesign I learnt various things such
as how to operate the tool bar ( type
tool, shape tool, etc), columns and
column guides.
I used column guides to ensure my
text was placed neatly on the page.
In the process of making the double
page spread there was a lot of extra
space between the model and the text.
I tried different methods to fill in the
gap by using pull out quotes, but in
the end I felt like it looked the best
by just zooming in on the image.

4. SurveyMonkey was a website I had
never used before. Once I had made
an account everything was quite
simple from there. I used it for
my audience research as it was a
quick and easy way to get lots of
responses once I had shared it on
Facebook. I asked questions on basic
information about themselves and their
opinion on music magazines.
I had also never used SlideShare
before doing my coursework. But it
was very easy once I learned how to
use it, I used it various times on
my blog by copying the embedded link
and pasting onto my blog.

5. I also learned how to use Sound
cloud and how to upload
YouTube videos to be able to
insert my music interviews onto
my blog. On Sound cloud once I
created an account I uploaded
the audio then copied and pasted
the embedded link. I used the
same process when uploading my
video onto YouTube except I
already had an account.
Another thing I learned how to
use was DaFont and how to
download different fonts using
Run.