What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?
College Desktop Computer
The majority of my work took place and the different technologies were used. Through this I was able to use all of the other programs and softwares that aided my coursework. Everything, from my research and planning to my final copy came through the computer to be put onto my blog.Iphone 4
My personal Iphone aided my work in many forms. Firstly, it allowed me to communicate with my model Harry Yates, my draft model Thomas Leason and other members of my class for advice with my work. Secondly, I was able to download the blogspot app from the app store. This allowed me to update my blog with small comment or posts from where ever I was. Also, I occasionally used the camera on my iphone to take pictures and post them through the blogspot app.
Samsung Black SL30 Camera
I used my personal camera to take the pictures for my draft magazine and also my final images for my final magazine. I then uploaded the pictures from the camera memory card directly to the college desktop computer to be used in my work. From doing this I have learnt a lot about the effect lighting can have on the resolution on photographs as when I did my test photos a lot of them did not work form the shadows displayed.
Memory Stick
I used a memory stick a lot during the researching and planning phase of the coursework. I did this mostly to make myself able to take word documents that I was working on home after college to complete them in my own time.
Animoto.com
This was the first time I heard of this product so from using this I learnt a new skill of a practical way to present work in a video form. The main use of this was when I had to present my magazine pitch to the rest of my class, I had to put together a presentation to make people aware of the intentions for my magazine. Luckily, I found it easy to use and I was very happy with my presentation.
Adobe Photoshop Elements 5.0
When I decided to take media studies on as a A-Level course I had never before heard of or used any form of photoshop and truth be told initially i struggled with it. It took some time practising with it before I understood the techniques of it so I think this was a dis-advantage to me. But eventually from using it I was able to take a group of pictures and text and arrange them to create my magazine.
Microsoft Powerpoint 2010
This is a program that I was very familiar with so when using it I did not struggle to compose Powerpoints for use in my Research and Planning.
Microsoft Word 2010
I used this program a lot when creating general documents for my research and planning. Out of all of all of the programs and technologies I believe this is the one I was most familiar with so I had little to learn when using it.
Scribd
Scribd is a program that I had never previously heard of, It allows you to put word documents onto your blog. Luckily I had practised using this earlier in the year on other media work. I now find this to be a useful program that is available to me.
1001freefonts.com/dafont.com
These are two similar websites that I used to browse through different fonts some of which I used on my draft and final magazine. i found them helpful because they are free to use and are categorised so you can find the styles of fonts that you want.
Facebook is a very popular social networking site that I have used for a while now and it aided my work from how it made it easier to communicate with other members of the class to ask for advice or guidance. Also, I choose Harry Yates to model for my photographs because I was able to see his facebook account and evaluate his style to decide whether he would be suitable or not.
Microsoft Publisher 2010
I had very little practice with Publisher before this task and I did not understand the benefits of it, but through this project I have been able to use it for different aspects of the work and now I understand the program
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