6. What have you learnt about the technologies from the process of constructing this product?
I used the sites of Flickr, Blogger, SuveryMonkey, Google and Photoshop when it came to editing and bringing my products together as well as the preparation for the products with my planning tasks and analysis of real magazine covers and double page spreads.
The logos above are of the programs I used for the production, analysis and editing of my preparation and main task products. I used Flickr to upload photos of magazine covers and double page spreads to add notes to and then forward to my blog, Flickr made me able to add important notes to my preparation work so that I understood the conventions of real magazines and how I then could apply this to my own work.
I used Blogger to display my whole project, the main tasks, preparation, analysis of real magazines and my research. It allowed me to keep updating my work and editing things that needed editing. Blogger is easy to use and straight forward, with a efficient way of presenting my work in particular categories and order.
I used the sites of Flickr, Blogger, SuveryMonkey, Google and Photoshop when it came to editing and bringing my products together as well as the preparation for the products with my planning tasks and analysis of real magazine covers and double page spreads.
The logos above are of the programs I used for the production, analysis and editing of my preparation and main task products. I used Flickr to upload photos of magazine covers and double page spreads to add notes to and then forward to my blog, Flickr made me able to add important notes to my preparation work so that I understood the conventions of real magazines and how I then could apply this to my own work.
I used Blogger to display my whole project, the main tasks, preparation, analysis of real magazines and my research. It allowed me to keep updating my work and editing things that needed editing. Blogger is easy to use and straight forward, with a efficient way of presenting my work in particular categories and order.
I used SurveryMonkey to advertise a survey that I linked to my facebook, so that all of my facebook friends had access to the survey and could complete the survey that asked all questions that I displayed in the product planning section of the coursework in charts. The site made me able to ask specific questions that would allow me to know the exact content that should be in my magazine. The use of the survey maker would be easier and more efficient than simply collecting results as I wouldnt know who was answering the survey and so there would be a wide variety of people including my target audience.
I used Google to research conventions of existing magazines, as well as the format of real magazines so I could analyze some magazine covers and double page spreads on Flickr, once found typical similar magazine models as 'Buzz' would be. Google also helped me search for my institutions so that I found a company that would be likely to publish my magazine.
I used Photoshop to create my main products, the preliminary tasks using Photoshop helped me learn the basic uses of Photoshop, as I didn't know much about the program, so I was worried about how I would be able to edit my magazine and make it have the same format and conventions as real magazines. However, when I had started on the main task, I found that I was learning about Photoshop, applying it to my work and developing my skills of using the program. I used cropping, magic wand tool and shapes that would help me edit my pictures by cutting out backgrounds and unwanted parts of the pictures to make them look effective and naturally on my page. Also I learnt how to use 'rulers' that outlined the doubtle spread into sections so that I was able to write in specific columns and have straight border lines so the magazine looked more professional and tidy. Using layers was something that I learnt was very important in Photoshop, at first I just had lots of layers that were in order, and I needed to get certain layers on top of existing ones, this is something that I learnt whilst using the program. I was able to change the image size to fit in with the surrounding texts, make texts smaller in certain parts and change colours of text when they overlapped with images. I feel that I used Photoshop well, though there is still so much I have to learn about how to use it because there's so many techniques of editing and there is so many effects that I didn't learn about.
I was proud of the images of the double page spread and the contents page as I had to edit these closely so they fitted in with the background rather than having small white areas and parts of the image that weren't supposed to be on the page.
I used Google to research conventions of existing magazines, as well as the format of real magazines so I could analyze some magazine covers and double page spreads on Flickr, once found typical similar magazine models as 'Buzz' would be. Google also helped me search for my institutions so that I found a company that would be likely to publish my magazine.
I used Photoshop to create my main products, the preliminary tasks using Photoshop helped me learn the basic uses of Photoshop, as I didn't know much about the program, so I was worried about how I would be able to edit my magazine and make it have the same format and conventions as real magazines. However, when I had started on the main task, I found that I was learning about Photoshop, applying it to my work and developing my skills of using the program. I used cropping, magic wand tool and shapes that would help me edit my pictures by cutting out backgrounds and unwanted parts of the pictures to make them look effective and naturally on my page. Also I learnt how to use 'rulers' that outlined the doubtle spread into sections so that I was able to write in specific columns and have straight border lines so the magazine looked more professional and tidy. Using layers was something that I learnt was very important in Photoshop, at first I just had lots of layers that were in order, and I needed to get certain layers on top of existing ones, this is something that I learnt whilst using the program. I was able to change the image size to fit in with the surrounding texts, make texts smaller in certain parts and change colours of text when they overlapped with images. I feel that I used Photoshop well, though there is still so much I have to learn about how to use it because there's so many techniques of editing and there is so many effects that I didn't learn about.
I was proud of the images of the double page spread and the contents page as I had to edit these closely so they fitted in with the background rather than having small white areas and parts of the image that weren't supposed to be on the page.
Good but what about the audience research? Did you use other techs there? And consider the evaluation - is doing this way better or worse than say writing an essay? Or are there some advantages and some disadvantages?
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