Evaluation Question 6

What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing your music magazine?

Throughout the time in preparing for and making my magazine, I used many different forms of technology. To start I used Microsoft's publisher, to come up with a basic design for a magazine, and just testing how things work. It is a very primitive basic software, and didn't give me anything good to use, besides knowledge of what I need to improve for my real magazine. I not long after while doing my research for my magazine, I used a website called survey monkey, which uses software that shares surveys to people with an account, and you get results by people from across the globe very quickly too.

The main software I used in the production of my magazine was Photoshop CS6. It took me a while to get used to using this software, as I hadn't really used it before, and I didn't know how to do things like layer images, or add effects to texts or images. The majority of my work was done on that, and by the time I had finished my magazine I had learnt how to use the software very very well.

When doing the photo shoot I also had to learn how to use the camera, which was a “Canon EOS 5D Mark 3” which although at first seemed tricky to use, was very simple, for its basic functions which I needed it for at least anyway. I feel like I could have spent more time learning all its functions and I may have gotten some better photographs, however I was stuck on time, so I had to use what I could get my hands on in the time I had. I do feel like with the time I did have tho, I did well.