Evaluation Question 6Media Studies

Jake Scott

QuestionWhat have you learnt from technologies from

the process of constructing this product?

During the process of producing the magazine, different media technologies have been used to create it to the quality it is.

These technologies are; Laptop, Gimp (editing software), Photoshop, Wordpress, Slideshare, Youtube, dafont.com, Kodak Easyshare camera, Microsoft Word 2007, Microsoft Powerpoint 2007, Paint, HP Photosmart C4580 Printer/Scanner, Internet Explorer, Windows Movie Maker, Nikon D3000. Verbatim 8GB Memory Stick.

Nikon D3000, This is the camera I used to take the photos of the main models who star as ‘DUO’. As this camera gives a much higher quality to the images.

Kodak Easyshare Camera was used to take all the images that appear on the contents page and the pictures that was done for the original idea for the music magazine.

I used the Compaq laptop I ownto save and edit all the pictures I took from the camera I used.

I also used the HP computers that they have at school to mainly do all the uploading to my blog, it was also used to research into similar products and also the first stages of planning and designing. Also to do all the analysing and written work that built all the research to give me a better understanding and idea of a music magazine.

This is what I used to scan on all my sketched drafts to upload onto my blog, they automatically transfer the documents to my computer. This was also used to print off research to put in my folder, and also to print of research to analyse, and then I scanned back onto my computer and uploaded it to my blog.

Microsoft Powerpoint &Word 2007 were used to put my pre-lim task on and were used to do all the writing and putting some of the research on and then uploading it using Slideshare.

Slideshare is the software that embedded my Microsoft work ready to be uploaded to my Wordpress Blog.

Wordpress is where all of my work is posted and is viewed. It has all my research, planning, designing, final product and evaluations.

Youtube was used to express a different way of telling the examiner what I have researched and just to use a different media technology. It also a different way to show and understand the information, instead of just writing it all.

Photoshop – I only used Photoshop to experiment and only edited a few pieces of text using Photoshop, the main editing software I used was GIMP.

The software I used to make and edit my magazine was a software called GIMP. I had never used GIMP before but it was recommended and I found it a lot easier to use and understand the tools to create my media product. The quality it leaves is very high it didn’t take me too long to get the grips of it but having to make everything on separate layers was confusing, but turned out to be much more easier to edit when wanting to make changes.

Paint was used to crop print screens and then save them as jpg. images.

My Verbatim memory stick was used to save all my working documents onto so I could transport my work easily as its a very small device. It keeps all my photos, documents, Print screens and copies of all my work from my computer and laptop.

It did take a while when creating my product as I was unaware of how to use all the different softwares at first. All the different technologies such as Wordpress and Slideshare have been of such great advantage, so as well as uploading my work, I now have a new skill I did not know how to work before.

Now having the knowledge of all these different technologies and software's, my future projects are sure to be much more of a higher standard and it will show in the intelligence of the new skills I’ve learnt in this project.