Q6.What have you learnt about technologies from the process of

constructing this product?

Blog:To present our media course work we had to create a blog which all of my work will be put on and is marked by doing this. The soft ware that I used to create my blog is called blogger. I had not previously used blogger before which means I had less experience using it and had to learn how to upload my work on to my blog.

While using blogger I learnt that this is a suitable way to present work and ideas. I also learnt how to change the design of how your blog will look to a viewer looking at it on the internet.

Pre Production: ResearchTo research my target audience of my magazine I used survey monkey. I found that survey monkey is a good soft ware to use to create a survey as well as being able to distribute it through social media (Facebook, twitted) and email it to people.

From using survey monkey I was able to get a good response to my survey and was able to create a reader profile from the results I got. As well as finding out certain aspects of a music magazine that people like to see in each copy. If survey monkey was not available to use I think I would still be able to carry out a surrey if a different way. However this will take more time and I may not be able to distribute it as effectively.

Pre Production: Planning While I was planning my magazine I used different technologies to be able to find out the information I needed and was able to present it in the best way. The software I used to present my planning was on PowerPoint, I did this because I thought it would be the most suitable way to show my work.

During the planning of my magazine I also planning the photographs that were going to be in magazine. To do this I had to google to research different images from other magazines as an influence for mine.

Production: Photoshop

Before stating my magazine I had not had much experience using photo shop software. This made it harder to do creative things to add to my front cover, contents and double page spread. However I soon learnt how to improve the image that I wanted to use so that it would professional and like it should be on a magazine.

From using photo shop I have learnt how to improve an image by changing the levels and how brightness of an image which improves the quality. If I was not able to use photo shop for this project I would not have been able to improve the quality to get a high enough standard for a magazine.

Production: InDesign Before I started my magazine I had never used InDesign software before and had to learn how to do my double page spread.However as I learnt to use InDesign I found out that InDesign and Photo shop work well together. For example you can have an image placed in InDesign and able to edit it in photo shop and it will automatically change in InDesign. This will save time as well as making it easier to edit images while I was working on my double page spread.If I did not have access to this soft ward I would not have been able to design my double page spread to a high quality. This is because InDesign has the correct size that I need to use as well as including the columns which I use to design the layout of the page.