Evaluation 6

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

In the process of constructing my media product i have learnt how to operate many new technologies. This has helped me to get my magazine to the standard it is at and helped me make it look as professional as possible.

First of all i familiarised myself with a cannon camera which has many different, confusing settings i had to figure out to get my pictures up to a good standard. The more i used the camera, i learnt new camera techniques and also shot from different angles.

Using a Mac computer was different from what i am usually used to. I mostly worked at first on a computer or laptop which was windows oriented and it is very different in many ways than the Mac computer. For the whole time i have done media i have used a Mac computer which has made me familiar with different programs and the way that they navigate. I have learnt a lot about these computers over the year and it played a big part in helping construct my media product.

Before doing media i had no idea how to operate photoshop or in design and i had to practise different techniques within the programs to become familiar with them. I originally created my drafts of my front cover, contents page and double page spread on indesign so i could mess around with different ways to set them. After i decided on my final layout i imported it to photoshop. This helped me take backgrounds out of my images, use different shapes also using different blending options and inserting different texts and images to ensure my magazine looked professional.