Evaluation - (6) What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?

When I started creating my magazine I used three key technologies which I had used and learnt about from previous tasks (such as constructing a front page and contents for a magazine in groups or pairs). In order to create these we used Photoshop to edit the photos and our front page and Quark Express to develop our contents page; so naturally when it came to constructing our own magazine we had a relatively decent understanding of the technologies. We also used a DSLR camera for our photographs, which required learning about different settings and other such information.

Of course went it came to our own magazine despite the help we had had we were still some what left to fend for ourselves; we had to use our initiative and bite the bullet. Once I had set up the layout for my magazine I set out to take photos; this involved using a studio, taking on the wilderness and experimenting in an incredibly cluttered bedroom. By using a studio I was able to learn in more detail about lighting and shadows - whilst taking pictures of two musicians I also experimented by taking a bedside lamp and wrapping it in a orange plastic bag to ejected a warm glow onto my models (although these pictures where never used because they did not fit into the colour scheme). This new technology of which I have discovered has enabled me to complete a reasonable looking magazine and achieve my aims - to be honest, anyone could produce some decent material with the technology we have used and I hope my magazine shows this.


Blogspot was something I was previously familiar with before starting this course so the process of blogging was relatively simple although I still learnt tiny little things about it (such as displaying all your blogs on one page). However, Slideshare was a website of which I had no idea about; so I certainly learnt something there - although luckily it wasn't rocket science. I also used Youtube at several points in my blog (embedding links and such) I even uploaded my own video which I had edited on my laptop - these being elements I had learnt from past adventures and projects I had created in Film Studies. I believe that all these technologies have allowed me to display my Media work in a new, accessible and interesting way; as appose to producing endless essays.