Evaluation Question 6

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

Overall I have learnt well from a lot of technologies when making my final products. I used various different amounts of technologies and these are:

-Photoshop.

-Canon 500d Camera.

-Laptop/Mac computer.

-Blogger.

-Internet.

-Memory Sticks.

-Memory Cards.

I have learnt a lot about using Photoshop and I am now very confident in using it. Throughout constructing my final products I feel I had an advantage from others as I have used Photoshop a lot more on previous occasions for other coursework such as photography and ICT. I feel I have improved a lot more other the time of making my products as I know now how to work each button etc. At first I found the magnetic lassoo tool hard to use but in the end I found this easy to use as the practicing from doing it at school and at home helped. I also learnt well with the layers have images above and below certain layers this I feel was very key and hard at first and in the end I finished well. In my product on my front cover I had to cut out the persons head with the lasoo tool and layer it between the main image and the masthead this took a lot of time and care and overall I managed to do this well. Another Photoshop technique I found good was and which I did with all my main images in the end and this was colour pop. This is where you make the saturation to -100 and you then rub out the bit you want colour in or use the magnetic lassoo tool. The outcome is where all the picture is dark with a little hint of colour I feel this worked very well with my 3 pages for my media product.

For taking pictures, I found this was a easy and hard task to do. I found it easier because I already have a camera and it is a camera which photographers use around the world this is good because the resolution of the picture making it smaller and bigger is very good to use. I found it hard to find the right place to take pictures and I ended up having three different locations to take these pictures these were hard to sort the timing the place where the images was going to be taken, the background. These all had to be taken into case where they were going to go. In the end I feel that the place background and the image are very good and I am proud of the finishing product.

When doing my blog and finishing off my final products I used my laptop or the Mac computers at the school. On my laptop and the computers at school these had all the technologies needed for doing my blogger which was the internet and constructing and editing the final products on Photoshop. Having Photoshop on my laptop at home was a big boost because this meant that I could do this at home in my spare time.

For blogger I found this hard to use at first because I have never used this before but I have recently came to grips with it and I now find it easier to use. This was a key factor to my media work as this is where all of my coursework goes. Also this would allow customers to view the website www.rhys-whitehead.blogspot.com to see the questionnaires.

The internet was another technology which was important to my work. This is where the blogger was and if I didn’t have the internet this would mean that customers wouldn’t be allowed to see my blog and either will I. Also I used the internet to search for my research on the front covers, contents pages, and double page spreads on google, also to research the target audience, audience demographics and Maslows hierarchy theory all where searched on google. I also used www.dafont.com to find fonts to use for my media products.

Another important factor was my memory stick and memory card. Without these I wouldn’t be allowed to of transferred my work from my home work to my school work. These are very useful and it’s an easy way of transferring work. Also memory cards without these I would not be allowed to upload pictures on my computer to use for my magazine.