Q6

Q6. What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?

The first technology that I have used during my coursework was the internet, I was given a blogger account to store all my coursework work into it. Using blogger was pretty straight forward however it had some disadvantages I had to face  for example when using large pictures within a text, shortcut support does not work with it (ctrl+v etc) and also their text format is different from the one in Microsoft. The advantages with blogger are that it’s straightforward and it does not allow unauthorised people to view your blog making sure its safe.

My coursework task was to create a music magazine front cover, content page and double page spread. For this task I had to take a pictures that I was going to include for my magazine using a canon E0s 400D, the reason why I had used this particular camera is because it would help my magazine look as professional as possible and effective in terms of the focus of the camera rather than using any other low budget camera. I had created my music magazine using adobe Photoshop cs3 which was very useful because it was very good in editing the images and font text of the front cover and content page. I am not a big fan of adobe Photoshop cs3 because It is a very complex editor for me as Photoshop is not the first choice for me if I was to edit a magazine. When it came to using the still camera, I was having difficulties with operating the camera because it was my first time using a canon E0S 400D camera and also focusing well on the subject. However after a few practises I started getting used with operating the camera this then started to build my confidence in using the camera. After using Photoshop a numerous amount of times, I then became an expert in using most tools which then made things much more faster and easier for me.

When taking a photograph of people i wanted in my magazine, it took me a long time to take it this is because of the state of the weather

One of the 3 tools that are enjoyed using were custom shape tool crop tool and layer style.

Custom shape tool-I used this tool on my contents and double page spread .I did this to beautify it even more and also give that teenaged nature letting people know my magazine is aimed at young people. What you do is click unto the custom shape tool on the tools box and select whichever type of shape best suits you

Layer style-this is one of my favourite tools that I enjoyed the most as it helps me give that effect unto the photo, such as strokes, drop shadow, inner glow and texture etc. When you have your photo up you simple double click unto the layer page on the right hand side and then the option will come up.

Crop tool- I really enjoy using this because its fun and exciting and it helps get rid of things i don’t want in a photo right away.

I believe that I could have taken a better medium shot of my subject, as my subject was to close to the camera making it seem as if the artist was too into your face distracting the audience from viewing elsewhere