WHAT HAVE YOU LEARNT

ABOUT TECHNOLOGIES

FROM THE PROCESS OF

CONSTRUCTING THIS PRODUCT?

FROM BEGINNING THIS TASK I HAVE LEARNT HOW TO USE TWO NEW PIECES OF SOFTWARE: INDESIGN AND BLOGGER. INDESIGN HAS HELPED

IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF MY PRODUCT, WHEREAS BLOGGER HAS HELPED IN THE PRESENTATION OF MY DEVELOPMENT AS A DESIGNER.

DESPITE NEVER HAVING USED IT BEFORE, I HAVE LEARNT HOW TO SETUP MARGINS, BLEED, SLUG AND ORIENTATION OF MY PAGES, THROUGH

WATCHING YOUTUBE TUTORIALS AND TRIAL AND ERROR. THESE NEW TECHNOLOGIES I HAVE DISCOVERED HAVE ALLOWED ME TO CREATE AN EFFECTIVE CONTENTS PAGE IN COMPARISON TO MY COLLEGE MAGAZINE WHICH I MADE USING ONLY WORD AND PAINT, RESULTING IN A SIMPLE PRODUCT. WITHIN INDESIGN I HAVE ALSO LEARNT ABOUT TYPING ON A

PATH AND LAYERING IMAGES AND TEXT. I HAVE ALSO LEARNT ALONG THE WAY THAT YOU CAN DIRECTLY EDIT IMAGES FROM INDESIGN IN

PHOTOSHOP, WHERE ADJUSTMENTS ARE AUTOMATICALLY SAVED AND UPDATED ON THE INDESIGN DOCUMENT.

• PHOTOSHOP IS AN EXAMPLE OF A PIECE OF SOFTWARE I HAVE USED MANY TIMES, HOWEVER THROUGH CONSTRUCTING THIS PRODUCT I HAVE LEARNT MANY NEW THINGS ABOUT PHOTOSHOP.

FOR EXAMPLE I WAS PREVIOUSLY USING THE LASSO TOOL TO COPY AND PASTE AREAS OF SKIN TO COVER BLEMISHES IN THE COLLEGE

MAGAZINE, HOWEVER NOW I UNDERSTAND THE ‘SPOT HEAL’ TOOL, AND ‘CLONE STAMP’.

WATCHING A YOUTUBE TUTORIAL AND READING AN ARTICLE ONLINE I HAVE ALSO DISCOVERED THE POSSIBILITIES OF ‘LIQUIFY’, ALLOWING ME

TO DEFINE CHEEK BONES AND PINCH IN OR BLOAT OUT AREAS OF THE BODY.

• I HAVE ALSO DOCUMENTED MY IDEAS AND DEVELOPMENTS THROUGH THE USE OF BLOGGER. THIS IS A DIARY

FORMAT PIECE OF ONLINE SOFTWARE THAT USES DIGITAL CONVERGENCE TO

INCORPORATE A RANGE OF TECHNOLOGIES IN ORDER TO CREATE A

SUCCESSFUL AND INFORMATIVE DOCUMENT. THE TECHNOLOGIES I HAVE USED WITH BLOGGER INCLUDE SCRIBD,

SLIDESHARE, THINGLINK, ISSUU AND PREZI.

VOICE NOTE• I USED VOICE NOTE ON MY MOBILE PHONE IN ORDER

TO RECORD THE INTERVIEW I HAD WITH MY FEATURE BAND, WICKED FAITH. THIS ALLOWED ME TO REVISIT

THE INTERVIEW WHEN I NEEDED TO REFERENCE IT OR WRITE IT UP ONTO MY DPS. I RECORDED THE

INTERVIEW IN THIS WAY BECAUSE IT SAVED TIME DURING THE INTERVIEW RATHER THAN WRITING IT

DOWN AS IT HAPPENED, BUT ALSO BECAUSE IT ENSURED I TRANSLATED THE INFORMATION THEY GAVE

ME DIRECTLY WITHOUT MISSING ANY KEY DETAILS.

IPAD

• MY IPAD ALLOWED ME TO RECORD IDEAS AS I THOUGHT OF THEM DUE TO ITS PORTABILITY. IT ALSO ALLOWED ME TO EDIT MY BLOG ON THE GO, HOWEVER PROBLEMS OCCURRED WITH THE WAY SAFARI WORKS COMPARED TO INTERNET EXPLORER. BLOGGER IS PRESENTED MUCH DIFFERENTLY ON MOBILE DEVICES THEREFOR THE FORMATTING OF MY BLOG CHANGED OFTEN WHEN VIEWING IT ON THE IPAD. THIS WAS USEFUL AS A RECORDING DEVICE HOWEVER I FOUND IT WAS EASIER TO STICK TO USING A COMPUTER WITH INTERNET EXPLORER.

GOOGLE CHROME

• ANOTHER PROBLEM OCCURRED WHEN I TRIED ACCESSING CERTAIN ADD-ONS FOR BLOGGER, SUCH AS SLIDESHARE, WHERE THE DOCUMENTS WOULDN’T UPLOAD CORRECTLY. I OVERCAME THIS ISSUE BY USING A DIFFERENT PIECE

OF TECHNOLOGY, GOOGLE CHROME. WHEN USING THESE PROGRAMS THROUGH CHROME EVERYTHING RAN SMOOTHLY THEREFOR I TRIED TO USE THIS AS A FIRST OPTION FOR ALL OF MY WORK THAT NEEDED TO BE DONE

THROUGH THE INTERNET.

FACEBOOK

• I USED FACEBOOK AS ANOTHER WAY OF REACHING MY TARGET AUDIENCE, 13-17 YEAR OLDS, BY UPLOADING IMAGES OF MY MUSIC MAGAZINE IN ORDER TO GATHER OPINIONS AND IMPROVEMENTS. I ALSO USED THIS TO GATHER SOME AUDIENCE RESEARCH. WHEN I

CREATED A QUESTIONNAIRE THROUGH SURVEY MONKEY I SHARED IT TO FACEBOOK IN ORDER TO RECEIVE AS MANY RESPONSES AS

POSSIBLE, AS PEOPLE OF AGES BETWEEN 13 AN 25 MAKE UP THE HIGHEST NUMBER OF FACEBOOK USERS.

DSLR CAMERA• WHEN ATTENDING MY PHOTOSHOOT AT THE WATERFRONT WITH WICKED

FAITH, I TOOK MY DSLR CAMERA WITH ME TO COLLECT A RANGE OF PHOTOGRAPHS FOR MY MEDIA PRODUCT. THIS TECHNOLOGY ALLOWED ME TO GATHER HIGH QUALITY PHOTOGRAPHS TO USE IN THE PRODUCTION OF MY MAGAZINE. USING A DSLR CAMERA OVER A COMPACT CAMERA MEANT I COULD GAIN A HIGHER QUALITY FINISH IN MY MAGAZINE, AND USING DSLR OVER A FILM SLR CAMERA MEANT I COULD DIGITALLY TRANSFER MY IMAGES

USING AN SD CARD, INSTEAD OF DEVELOPING THE FILM AND CREATING PHYSICAL ENLARGEMENTS AND CONTACT SHEETS.