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

constructing this product?

Blog:To present my media course work I decided to create a blog which I was able to use to put all of my course work onto this. The blog platform that I had decided to use was blogger, I had no prior experience in using this type of plate form before and I had limited experience with blogging. As I had not previously used this software I at first found it difficult and had to research specific techniques on google. From example how to upload my work onto blogger and embed it as well as embedding images

Throughout my time using blogger I have decided that this is the most suitable way for myself to upload and show all of my media work in one place. As I have now learnt how to use blogger I will be able to continue to use this as part of my future coursework.

Pre Production: ResearchIn order or me to carry out audience research I decided to create a survey using survey monkey. Although I had not previously used survey monkey I was easily able to use it as it was simple and easy to follow. Survey monkey was particularly useful as you are able to distribute the survey onto different social media platforms such as Facebook, twitter and by email. For my survey I decided to post it on to my Facebook account which I was able to get the majority of my results from.

The survey results allowed me to create a reader profile, which is my ideal reader for my magazine. I was also able to find out information on what my audience would expect to see from in each issue of my magazine.

Survey Monkey was useful it saved me time as it designed the layout of the questions and everything was able to be done on a computer saving me time as well as money on the printing costs as well as distributing them.

Pre Production: Planning I used PowerPoint as part of my coursework as I thought this would be the most suitable way to present my work. I had previously used PowerPoint before I started this coursework so I was able to use it easily and quickly. PowerPoint was used through both the planning stages as well as now the evaluation stages, proving useful in both. During the planning stages I used PowerPoint to analyse other magazine designs and layouts. I found this useful as I was able to have the image in the middle and have my analysis in the middle.

After completing my PowerPoint I was then able to use slide share to then upload it to my blog. Using PowerPoints and word documents on my blog makes it more interesting and has shown a wider range of skills rather then writing straight on to my blog.

Slide shareI used slide share as part of my course work as I needed a way to upload my PowerPoint presentations onto my blog. When the presentations where uploaded to slide share I then used the embed code and pasted it onto the HTLM section on my blog. This created a presentation that can be seen and used on my blog. Slide Share helped me make my blog more interesting and has allowed me to used different technologies to present my work rather them writing straight onto my blog.

DSLR Camera In order to capture the images for my magazine I needed to use a DSLR Canon 600D Camera. Before starting my media coursework I already had some experience using a camera like this and had a basic understanding on how to set up the studio space and how to use the lights to make the image look good before editing.

If I had not has access in using this camera I would not have been able to create an professional looking image that looks as if it is meant to be in a magazine.

Alongside this I used a tripod as well as basic studio equipment including a white backdrop and lights

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.

This is an example of how I have used Photoshop to improve the image on the front cover. As shown I have cropped the image to make it a more usable size, as well as adjusting the levels and brightness and I used the spot heal tool to neaten up sections of the image.

Production: InDesign Before I started my magazine I had never used InDesign software before and had to learn how to in order to create 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 software 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, as well as features such as drop caps which are a convention for a double page spread.