Q6.What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?

Technology is very important when creating a media product such as a magazine because without it then the whole concept of making a magazine would be useless.

Photoshop- This was the main piece of technology that i used throughout the whole process of making my magazine. I was able to manipulate photos as i wished and with ease. Without the use of Photoshop it would have been a lot harder to construct my magazine.

Photoshop is very easy to use and the icons were very easy to understand. i have learnt how to use the program more effectively, to make it look more professional, using the icons on the program more usefully and cropping layers and images and also to make the magazine look to a very high standard. Without the use of Photoshop when making this media product, The magazine would not have looked anywhere near as professional as it does when using the program.

Quarkxpress- Overall this program was a lot harder to do than using photoshop. This is because the tools were more complicated to use. Though saying this, i do believe that using this program gives a better, more professional finish, especially on the double page spread. On the double page spread, i found it was easier to do this than on anything else. This is because it was easy to lay it out so that it looks like a professional magazine. It was also easy to put the pictures in the boxes.

The only problem that i had when using quark was when it came to uploading it to my blog. But apart from this it was an essential process in making my media product.

Digital SLR- Again i would not have been able to complete my media product without the use of this piece of technology. Without the camera, then i would not have been able to take my pictures and therefore i would bot have been able to produce my media product.

It has many different functions to a normal digital camera, for example, you can brighten colours or even make it focus in on a portrait style.

By using a digital SLR camera i was able to get a much more professional look than what i would have using a normal camera.

DaFont.com- This helped me create the correct font that i needed to capture my target audience. This was a very important program in the making of my magazine. This is because this website helped me with the font on both my front page and on my contents page.

So it has obviously came in very useful because without this i would not have gad a professional look to my magazine and also i would not have attracted my target audience in the same way.

Blogger.com- this was the basis of my magazine. Without this i would not have been able to blog my magazine. So his was very useful in the process of making my magazine.