Evaluation Draft Question 6

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


Laptop/Computer: I used the computers available at school during lesson time to help with my construction of my product. However the majority of producing the magazine was done on my Dell Inspiron laptop as it allowed me access to photoshop and I was able to do the majority of the work at home, giving me much more time in which to complete the magazine. 


Adobe Photoshop Elements 9: This is the editing software I have on my home Laptop, it is where i created an edited almost all of product. The tools on it allowed me to create the desired affects on my magazine. After the brief tutorial of photoshop during our preliminary, as well as personal practice I soon became able to use Photoshop effectively and to my advantage by creating the kind of product I wanted.


Samsung L313 Compact Camera: This is the camera I used to take all the photographs for my magazine. Although it isn't of the highest quality it was the best camera I had available to me with which I could take the pictures. I feel considering the lack of quality, it has produced good photographs and that I have made the use of the technology available to me. I also used photographs from my friend Steph's camera that we took together and consequently shared as we had the same photographs. These were only used on my contents page. 


Microsoft Word 2007: I used this to write up my double page spread interview as I thought it would work best on a word document as it would encourage a bit more structure to my writing and I could keep a word count of how much I had done. 


Scribd: This is an online publishing website in which you can upload word documents and then embed them onto your blog. I used this to put my interview on my blog, as well as my feedback sheet. 


Slideshare: I used this to create my artist profile. I created a powerpoint using Microsoft Office Powerpoint 2007 and then uploaded it onto slideshare which allowed me to publish it onto my blog. 


Animoto: I used this video creator to make a moodboard and also for my pitch. I found this effective as it was a good visual representation of my work, allowing me to put across my research and planning ideas more efficiently.


Memory Stick: This was the main place I saved my work, although I had back ups both at school and on my laptop. I used this as I could take the work to and from school easily allowing me as much time as possible to complete the work. It proved to be very useful.


Facebook: I posted some of the photographs I took for my magazine on facebook to see what my friends thought and which photographs they liked best, as they are my target audience, i felt there opinion would be most valid.


Internet (Google Chrome/internet explorer, Google.com, Live.co.uk/hotmail) A vital part of my research and plannig as I used google to do a lot of it particularly finding magazine exemplars and finding out facts.