Evaluation Question 6

What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing your media product?

Blogger:

When starting my process of my media product, I had to learn how to use blogger in order to post all process I made on my magazine. I had to learn how to transfer images to a PDF, how to attach a Prezi to a blog, how to attach just normal files such as images and how to post a blog in general as I had no previous experience with blogger. However once using it a couple of times it was quite easy to get the hang of and I had no trouble uploading and adding to my blog.

Photoshop:

I was already quite familiar with Photoshop before starting my magazine however whilst using it I managed to pick up and figure put multiple new skills such as rotating and transferring images which allowed me to get a greater quality to my magazine in the end. I used Photoshop all the way through creating my magazine as I found it most helpful for the style I was aiming for.

Publisher:

Before starting my magazine I’d had some experience with it but a long time ago so it was reasonably new to me and had to pick up the skills to use it all over again. I made my college magazine with just publisher when I very first started working on magazines and picked it up fairly quickly. I found it was a good format to use to ad small amounts of text however I found it best to do most of the magazine in Photoshop as it allows a lot more options of editing.

Prezi:

I learnt how to use Prezi for the first time as a way to publish my evaluation and analysis of planning and research as it is clear and gives a variety of ways to lay out your work. I tended to use it when I would be analysing feedback as it was easier and clearer to go box to box which Prezi allows you to do very easily. I picked up laying out and adding text and images quickly and so used Prezi frequently through creating my final product.

Camera:

When taking my pictures I learnt how important the shutter speed is as I ended up with a lot of pictures have too high exposure and ruining the shot so I had to adapt to taking multiple of the same image on different shutter speeds in order to get a perfect image.