Question 6

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

What I have learnt about technologies from the process of constructing my product on Prezi

Since September when I first started creating my school magazine, I have learn't to use a huge variety of different technologies on the MAC's at school and at home. Whilst constructing my product I have learn't to use programmes and websites such as Pages, Prezi, Slideshare, Flickr, Xtra Normal, iMovie, Blurb book, Photoshop, Photopeach, Photosnack and Blogger.  

When starting to construct my media product I had to take my pencil sketches and make a plan onto pages therefore I could start making my music magazine. I knew the basics of using Pages when I did media last year. This was good because I had a bit of a head start compared with some in my class.  After I created my plan I had to start editing the plan. In my plan I decided I wished to make a collage of photos as the background of my double page spread. Below is the set of photos I put into pages and rotated them to look like a scrap book collage.

I then started to play around the different picture frames you can put around them. I found a variety of different frames that fitted in with my theme of a scrap book style which looked much better.

Once I had chosen the background for my second side of the double page spread I had to start creating my first page of my double page spread. I started with the name tag at the top and putting the picture I had taken in the centre. I asked a few class mates and they said they thought it didn't flow as a double page spread. The fact I had chosen to use a scrap book style I just didn't look like a double page spread with the neat black and white style on the first page. Therefore I decided to change my idea. This is when I used photoshop to cut 'Scott Kerner' out of the background and place him onto the collage background.

After learning to cut out a figure from the background in Photoshop I then copy and pasted him onto the collage background I had made on Pages. (Below)

I then started working on my front cover of my music magazine. I had the text boxes already and I had photoshopped my original photo using lens flare, brightness, contrast etc. I used these effects to make the photo fit in with the genre of pop, ibiza issue and summer.

Using Pages became alot easier over time as I started making changes to my music magazine to make it look better. I used a variety of different fonts I had chosen and fonts which are seen as associated with my genre. I made  sure I stuck to a certain colour scheme which was bright neon green, yellow,black and white. This colours fit in well with the dance and festivals genre.  I took out the photo I was going to put on my front cover as I felt the black and white image didn't fit in well on the front cover.

When writing my double page spread I knew that a key code and convention to start the text was to use a drop cap but I was unsure how you did this. Therefore I searched on Google and worked out how you did and it worked well on my double page spread. I got the hang of changing a variety of different settings for example on the text boxes I made them more opaque so that it looks more effective and it flows better than just a white box. The images behind the text which tell the story are still visible.