Question 6

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

Digital Camera

All of the photos that are featured in my music magazine I took myself using a digital camera. Digital cameras have become so advanced that professional looking photos can be taken with ease. The upside to taking photos on a digital camera is that you can see them instantly so it made it easier for me assess if the photos I had been taking were up to a good enough standard to feature in my magazine. It is also good having all the photos stored in one place so that when coming to upload them to a computer it was a simple process. 

Scanner 

I used the scanner to scan my sketched drafts of the magazine which I had edited to add various conventions of real media products. This was a good idea, as it shows how I developed from my original sketches to the final piece. Also it was a lot quicker to draw the drafts by hand over having to create it on the computer. 

It was extremely handy to have the drafts saved on my computer after scanning them in, so that I could refer back to them and then put them on my blog. This giving me the chance to go back and reflect on what I had done.

Photoshop 

Using photoshop I edited all of my photos and used it to create all my pages for my whole magazine. I could have easily used another programme e.g. Publisher, however was convenient as it meant I could edit it as I went along. It was extremely useful using photoshop to edit my photos as it allowed me to create the same effect on all of the photos and pages, so that there is a good house style and the reader will feel comfortable with the layout. For example throughout the whole magazine many pictures have either been filtered or overlapped so that you can see two giving off a very nice effect. 

Internet Explorer

I mainly used the Internet for research such as;

• Looking up statistics- this way I found out what sells well in the magazine industry 
• Finding out about my target market- what they are interested in 
• Forms and Conventions- this way I made sure that my magazine confided to the majority of them, so that it looks like a high quality one. Also so that I could challenge them and develop them to give my magazine an edge to all the others 
• Analyse other magazines online