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

Fatimah Patel

Different Technologies

During the construction and process of my magazine, I used many different types of technologies. Here are a few:

To create my magazine I used Adobe Photoshop CS5 and CS6. I used it to produce the structure, layout and to input and edit my images and texts. At first I didn’t have any experience with Photoshop so I found it difficult and challenging, however I used online tutorials which helped a lot.

Photoshop:

I have learnt a lot from Photoshop in the construction of this product. I learnt how the quality of images can be improved by adding little adjustments and by changing the brightness and contrasts of them. Another thing I learnt would be how to make the background disappear so that it is only the model on the image. This is useful for magazines as the backgrounds are usually already there especially on front covers. I learnt how to do this through watching YouTube tutorials which were extremely useful.

I also wanted certain aspects such as the some of the sell lines on my Front cover to have a certain effect, therefore I added the ‘Drop Shadow Effect’ on it to make it stand out more. Here is the example of where I added it on my front cover:

Where it says ’13 songs’ I had to create a square shape first using the shape tool, and then add the typography and edit it further. This is where I used the ‘Drop Shadow Effect’ tool in order to make it look more eye catching and also look 3D. I believe that this pull line will attract my audience, especially if there is two colours contrasting on top of each other there.

Microsoft word was useful to me especially for when I created my double page spread as I was able to use it to type up my script. It allowed me to identify any errors with spelling and grammar and helped my magazine to look more professional.

Microsoft word allowed me to type up most of my evaluation questions in the end in order to then convert them into a slide-share. It allowed me to be more organised with my work. It also allowed me to save screenshots of my progression throughout.

I used Prezi to answer one of my questions for the evaluation. This was something that I had never used before therefore I was able to learn how to use this form of media and insert images into my Prezi to make it look more interesting.

I used iMovie in order to create some of my vlogs for my evaluation. This allowed me to record my voice over images in order to allow audiences to understand the choices I made throughout my process.

Photography and Images

For my images of my magazine, I decided to use a Canon Camera as the quality of these cameras are very high and good. My pictures came out clear with these and I was able to use aspects of the camera such as Flash in order to make them look even more better. For my shots, I decided to use a variety of different shots such as some close-up, mid-shots and also some long-shots. I ended up taking many different camera angle shots and then decided which one I preferred the best in the end and used them for my front cover, contents page and double page spread.