Evaluation - 6

What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing the process?

‘BOOM’ Magazine

At the start of this project I had never used Blogger before and now I feel very confident with it. It is easy to use, easy to edit the layout and simple to change the order that all my posts were presented. Through using Blogger, I discovered how to upload j.peg images, embed YouTube videos as well as making hyperlinks to other pages and embedding different presentation widgets I had used.

I had used Photoshop prior to beginning this task, although I was never confident and didn’t know what each feature was in detail. It has simple tools, such as the ‘spot healing tool’ which was useful when editing the images I used in depth. It was easy to insert the images I required from iPhoto, with me being able to have all the documents I needed open to ensure that I had a fluent house style throughout my magazine. Editing and inserting text was straight-forward, especially installing fonts I had found online (dafont.com) that I wanted to use at the click of a button.

I had an account of YouTube before so I did not need to create a new account, although I had never uploaded any videos of my work. After learning to upload various clips to my channel, I began to learn that I could annotate my videos on YouTube itself which I had exported from iMovie. I then learnt how to embed videos onto my blog, discovering that I could select different sizes for the presentation to be shown as.

Before beginning this project, I had also never used iMovie before. I managed to download it onto my iPad and played around with different clips and edits, discovering that there were many templates to work with. I didn’t use iMovie whilst creating my production piece, however I created a small video discussing the feedback I had received from my audience. I found it was easy to import clips and export finished items to YouTube then furthermore onto my blog.

SnackTools is an online widget I used to create slideshows and flip-books to present any research or feedback I had collected. I had never used slidesnack or flipsnack and I found that slidesnack was easier to use. When using flip-snack you had to change your files to PDF’s and presenting it in a way that looked clear and professional proved to be a challenge. I also used Prezi to create mind-maps which looked aesthetically pleasing. It took a lot of patience to master but I discovered you could use different themes, fonts and could also import images.

Twitter, iTunes and Spotify are largely used to share musician's music to as wide as an audience as possible. Advertising on these types of media is an effective way to promote products and gain brand awareness as it targets a large range of people. On iTunes and Spotify you can view what songs and artists fall into a certain genre, which helped to distinguish the kind of songs that my target market would listen to.