Technologies

Planning phase

Software:• Microsoft word• Microsoft Powerpoint• Apple Newstand • Prezi

Hardware:• PC

Microsoft word: Word was a very helpful program for planning my work. Though it doens't present things in an exciting fashion, it did give me a distraction free drafting space.

Microsoft Powerpoint: At first I needed some basic software I knew to help me present some of my work, this was very helpful, as I knew my way around the software and was able to publish easily with it.

Prezi: Prezi was a very nice piece of software, it made powerpoint look like sticky. Prezi has such a fluid movement to it which just makes is a joy to watch, though it should be said this is repeated so shouldn't be used too often at risk of making them boring.

Apple Newstand: Finding hard copies of magazines is hard, what's even harder is getting them for the genre of Jazz. Because of this I decided to go online finding the magazine and to make it easier for reading and transport I would do this on my apple device. In the end I encountered a problem with the device and after deleting the magazine from my iPad I was unable to restore purchase.

Contruction

Software:• Photoshop• InDesign• Microsoft word

Hardware:• PC• Camera

• Photoshop: Photoshop was quite importantant. It was used entirely to create the front cover and contents page. Any picture used in the magazine came into here first for a quick touch up be it simply adding a filter or removing a background.

• InDesign: InDesign was used to create the DPS (double page spread). InDesign offered extensive word edditting tools that Photoshop lacked hense the reason the DPS was made here.

• Microsoft word: Once again Microsoft word was used to help draft so I could get everything spell checked first. This is because Photoshop doesn't have these sort of tools. Also InDesign was fairly complicated to use so it was easier to draft on this.

• Camera: I used a variety of camera's from the Kodak models to Olympus, we were playing with a few. My favourite would be the Panasonic, it offered the best quality pictures and a quick snap speed, I did initially have some problems with appature however this was sorted as soon as I'd had a tinker and some lighting change.