Question 6:What Have You Learnt About Technologies From The Process Of Constructing This Product

This is The Sony Vaio that I used to research, create and evaluate my magazine. I did all of my work on this laptop.

I also used a 1GB memory stick to hold back up copies of my magazines and to store images that are relevant to my magazine.

During my photo shoot, I used my Canon EOS 1000D

Also, during my photo shoot, I played music to my model's in order to make them feel more comfortable and relaxed whilst i took pictures of them - as it can be quite a pressurising thing.

I bought and learnt to use Photoshop Elements 9.0 for my final magazine, however, for my preliminary task, I learnt to use Photoshop Elements 6.0

Also, I created a blogger account to post all of my research and evaluation activities for my magazine.

I also used Microsoft Word to display my test shots and research.

In addition to this, I also used Scribd to post word documents that I had created on my laptop onto the blog and also to display my test shots.

I used Microsoft Powerpoint to give my evaluation and research an aesthetic edge to it.

I used Slideshare to display the Powerpoints I had created onto my blog.

When converting screen grabs into JPEG files, I used paint.

To display some of my presentations, I used some online software that I had never used before -  Prezi.

I used an online video creating software called Animoto, i had never used this software before, either.

 

To do most of my online research, I used Google

For some of my inspiration, I used Youtube

Finally, I contacted the models of my magazine through Facebook

I used movie maker to create a video of my target audience's feedback.

In conclusion, I have learnt to use and developed my use of new technologies throughout this project. I had never used Photoshop before the preliminary exercise, however, I am now confident in using this software. Also, I had never used Scribd, Slideshare, Prezi, Animoto, Movie Maker or Blogger before this project but now I can use them with confidence.

I have learnt that technologies decrease the amount of time taken to complete an activity and make my project look far more aesthetic and professional than if I had not of used them however, the most important thing I have learnt throughout the process of my AS magazine project is how to make all of the software work together and embed them onto other websites. Before, I would have figured out how to used these website individually and perhaps used them for their sole purpose, however, now, I am fully able to sync the software together and create a blog that looks nice, makes sense, looks professional and is still interesting.

On the whole, I think that new technologies have enhanced the research for my project and made it easier to put together. I would say that these technologies have more advantages than disadvantages. The advantages are: the ability to display work at your own convenience. And the disadvantages are: junk e-Mails bombarding my inbox, however, i can just block them.