Question 6

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

Photoshop

The main thing I have learnt to use well from the process of constructing my music magazine is Photoshop as before I had never used it before, I have learnt how to cut out backgrounds of images

precisely using the lasso tool that you can see on the left, and also how to brighten and change the hue and saturation of images. However as I

have never used Photoshop before I think this has impacted on my work as the layouts and images are quite simple, and with more time to practise using this software I think my images and magazine would look

a lot more professional.

Facebook

I also used Facebook to create a focus group and insert images of my magazine on so that my friends

could comment on my work, I have learnt how to create a focus group and post things in the group.

Blogger

. Another website I have never used before is blogger, this was used to upload all of my coursework and my

final pieces and also my evaluation with the use of presentations and voice clips.

Slideshare

Another software I had to use alongside blogger was slideshare this was used to upload a word document

onto blogger; I didn’t find slideshare a challenging software and found it was easy to upload word

documents onto blogger by using it.

Nikon Camera And Iphone Camera

I used a Nikon camera to take some images in college, I used different aspects of the camera such as the zoom and taking images with the flash on and off, also I took images at different angles so they looked

more interesting. I also used my iPhone camera to take images at home of my sister, I preferred using my iPhone as I was familiar with it and could take better images at home of a model instead of in college.

Prezi

I used Prezi software so that the presentations aren’t boring; I think I had success using this

new software as the presentations weren’t as boring as the usual PowerPoint presentations.

Soundcloud

Another software I used was sound cloud, I already had an account which I listened to

music on however I have now learnt how to record my own sound and upload it.

All of these different software’s have been done using the internet, my iPhone, a Nikon camera or software already

on the computer, because of technological convergence it has been made easier to create my magazine.

technological convergence has made it easier for me to distribute and publish my work from the same computer

and on my iPhone at home therefore saving time and money to produce a professional looking music magazine.