Evaluation - question 6

What have you learned about technologies from the process of constructing this product?

I used a range of different technologies available on the computer. I used software like PhotoShop to create and design my media product.

Photoshop logo 

Photo shop helped increase the quality of my product as it allowed me to make my magazine fit other rock magazine conventions and therefore, can be clearly identified as a rock magazine. Photo shop also allowed me to put my own unique touch on my product by the large variety of tools that were available to use. This was great in making my product fit conventions but also breaking them at the same time. An example of a tool that I used is the shape create tool. This tool allowed me to create shapes that I could turn into puffs and also allowed me to put a border around the outside of my double page spread. This tool worked really well as it allowed me to fit conventions of a magazine as puffs are a common element of a magazine.

Puff created with the Photoshop shape tool

Black border around the edge, made with the shape tool from Photoshop 

Updated double page spread. 

I used photoshop to also improve my work as I was able to test out new designs whenever I wanted and that allowed me to find the right design for me and one that also fitted the conventions of a rock magazine. This also allowed me to copy other conventions from other magazines like Classic Rock. One way In which I used technologies like photoshop to improve my work was with my double page spread. I wanted to make my page fit conventions and so i used photoshop to add gradients, and layout the text so the page conforms to design conventions of magazines.

I also used another piece of technology I used to help create my media product, is Prezi. I used this technology to make creative looking power points that give a more exciting feel to my magazine product that gets the viewer immersed into the content of my blog. This is what i liked about prezi as it is interactive therefore, it will be more appealing to the audience than a blank bit of paper with writing on as they can become part of the content which is more than just looking at it.

However, one part of the magazine I am not completely satisfied with in the front cover. This is because I feel its a little untidy due to the positioning of the puffs and cover lines but photoshop will allow me to make changes in the future to the design of the cover. This is a great feature of photoshop as you can keep changing your product again and again until you are completely happy with what you have produced.

One area that of tech that I struggled to use was the shear amount of tools and commands that were available to use on photoshop. Although having a wide variety of tools was also a good thing, they were also quiet confusing to get a hang of a required some practise to get use to the tools photoshop had available for us to use.

I used photoshop to also improve my work as I was able to test out new designs whenever I wanted and that allowed me to find the right design for me and one that also fitted the conventions of a rock magazine. This also allowed me to copy other conventions from other magazines like Classic Rock