Question 6: What have you learnt about technologies from the process

of constructing the product?

Dillon Ashford-Quaye

Photos

I have learnt how important mise-en-sene is when it comes to taking pictures. The model's costume can relate to the magazine you are constructing. So before doing my magazine i had to research on the clothing associated with my genre. Same goes with Location, Props and lighting. I also learn about different types of shots. This was important because different angles and types of shot convey different meanings in many different ways. When using a Nikon bridge camera I had to consider this before taking pictures. Taking picture was not too complicated because bridge cameras are highly restricted with what you can do compared to SLR/DSLR cameras.

Post production programs

Before starting this magazine, i new nothing about photoshop so i had to do a lot of research on how to use it so i can learn a lot of new skills on Photoshop when putting my magazine together. I had to do a lot of research using youtube to find out how to crop pictures. This came in useful because in my front cover, the background of the main image has been removed so i can use a white background instead. I also learnt of to change colours of certain objects and clothing. I used this technique in all my 3 pages. On the front cover and DPS, I changed the model's jacket from blue to black. On my contents page i changed the background of the image to black and white but kept the original colours of the model's clothing. to do this i had to also use the cropping techniques i learnt. I also made my masthead on photoshoprather than using front websites. This was so I can make an original masthead that is not easy to come across.

Website applications

I used a few website applications to showcase my work created so the overall presentation won't look dull, long and boring to mark. The website applications i used were, wikispace (to store all my work), Prezi (to answer questions for my evaluation) and slideshare (to also present some powerpoints). Prezi makes your presentation look more exciting with its layouts and transitions between slide. Slideshare allows you to put powerpoint slides on websites like wikispacewithout taking up too much space