Activity 6

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

This is the camera used to take the images, although it was clear how to operate a camera it was the camera shots that was relevant.

From the beginning of the course we had to create our own blogger, this was new to me as I didn't have a clue what this was. The blogger has helped through every step to create my final product. It acted as a guided as I would refer back to it and how i could improve on it to make it better.

Overall the blogger was a good form of communication as I was able to do unfinish work at home, updated with blogs by the teacher therefore I was able to keep my blog up-to-date.

I used Adobe InDesign to create my product. At first I found this hard to use as I was new to the porgramme. I think overall my product came out better than I had imagined. Adobe InDesign has shown me how I can change the images and fonts in different styles and shades. During this production I have learnt how magazines are produced and ways in which magazines are done to attract the consumers.

I did not use Adobe Photoshop to produce my product but I did use the software to create my masthead and the contents font. Adobe Photoshop was also new to me, it took me a while to get use to it. I experienced new methods for example manipulating the fonts. The font shown in the image fitted the genre I was working on as it is retro which links to graffiti which is why I had chosen this to be my masthead.

With my images photoshop allowed me to crop around the images and manipulate the colours of the image by changing the contrast or changing the colours of the image. Magazines do this to match the colours of the masthead with the colours in the image.