Question 6What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?

To begin I am going to talk about the specific programmes that I used. Then follow on with some pictures of the programmes in use and with a small explanation on how parts of that programmed would work.

To construct my music magazine together I used a programmed very popular within the media industry called ‘’Adobe Photoshop’’. In this programme I constructed my entire front page, contents page and double page spread. I created various shapes of different size and explored the use of images. Throughout my time using Adobe Photoshop I found it fairly difficult to get used to. After a while of getting used to the way it worked and learnt what button done what, I finally found myself the basics and went from there. It taught me that with constructing a piece such as a music magazine, you are not limited to what you can do. By this I mean with the types of texts you can use, by using different texts I was able to give my magazine that ‘edgy’ effect to make it more realistic.

Another important programme I used was the Internet. This played a vital part in my music magazine as I constantly used it to do research. I consistently researched rock magazines in order to find a type of magazine that I wanted to almost base my own on. In the

end I did find myself a magazine, without the Internet I wouldn’t of had a clue where to begin. By basing my own magazine on a magazine that had already been created, I found the task I was given much easier and made my music magazine feel more realistic as readers could relate to the similar layouts.