6. What have you’re learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?

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

Photography equipment:

1.       GE A1200 – is a digital camera that has 12.1 mega pixels. I used this camera to do a location shoot. I was confident about using the camera, but I also played around with the contrast settings as I had taken the photo during sunset.

2.   Iphone 4 –I had used my mobile phone to capture some nature and the surroundings of the location that I would've liked to add to my magazine. The iphone camera has 8 mega pixels and has a great focus. 

  

3. Computer/Laptop(iMac)- I used a laptop to upload photos, choose a selection of photographs that I would put in my magazine.

Desktop Programs
I also used a some designing programs to create my Front cover, Contents page and DPS. The programs I had used were Indesign and Photoshop. 

Indesign - is a desktop publishing software that can be used to make posters, flyers, magazines newspapers etc. I had learnt how the basics: crop an image, add text, use a ruler, create borders and add images. This program was manageable, it was also the first time i had used the program and i would definitely use it again for design purposes.  

Photoshop - is a graphics editing program used to edit JPEGS (photo files). I had used this program to create my front cover of my music magazine, this included adding subheadings as well as editing and placing images. 

Creative media technologies:

For each of the following creative media technologies I have used were different ways of presenting my work. Each website has a different theme and layout for my work and were used to present my answers  in a more youthful way. 

 

Blogger - I had used blogger to display my work in a simpler way. Blogger is very easy to use as it's layout is similar to the layout on Word Document.

Slideshare - Slideshare is a web 2.0 that is primarily based on slide hosting services. I was able to upload my Powerpoint presentations as your unable to upload powerpoint files on blogger. This was also another source that i used to answer one of my questions. I also found this website easy to use. 

Xtranormal - is a digital entertainment which produces DIY animation software for the web. It turns the words from a script into an animated movie using text-to-speech. This is particular type of technology that is new to me as I've never created an animated story. However, i think my final result of animated production was successful and a great challenge.

Blurb - is mainly used for users that want to make their own photo book (photo album) - But in this case i used this to show some of my pictures/evidence of my photos and annotation of the photos that i uploaded.  

Prezi - Prezi is quite similar to using powerpoint presentation - there's many types of templates that you can use; which each theme has their own individual movement of the slides and background.