EVALUATION: QUESTION 6.

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

The new technologies we were able to use for own production work helped me greatly, as it allowed me to make my work look a lot more professional and well presented, which would appeal then to a wide audience. The new technologies allowed me to edit my images in Photoshop, which also helped me create my front cover itself. This specific programme allowed me to edit the images in the programme itself, adding effects and clearing up any mistakes that needed to be fixed, which again made my magazine look a lot more well groomed and professional. The cameras themselves helped me capture the best image possible, especially when used in portrait settings. Blogger.com helped me keep my work tidy and easy to access, which helped a lot as it allowed me to keep my timing on track. The internet itself helped me a lot through the task, it helped me analyse other media products for my planning, being able to contrast influence magazines with my own. It gave me an idea of what I wanted my media products to look like and how they would turn out, this allowing me to constantly contrast and show links between planning and production. A lot like Photoshop, InDesign was software that really helped and made a difference to my production work, as I feel now I have gotten use to the programme itself, knowing how and what to do within the programme. It allowed me to design and create my contents and double page spread, letting me decide on the best layout, which helped the overall appearance look more professional.

Blogger.com helped me present and organise my planning and pre-production, but also keep up to track with my actual production work. It allowed me to keep all my work overall in one place and it helped oragnise my work ethic, instead of panicing and worrying. It presents work in a clear war, allowing me and others to read and view the blog and the work in an easy way, clearly seeing which part of the planning is which. Social networking sites in particular allowed me to gather information and feedback from my target audience, gathering information straight from the best source. The ability to virtually upload my production work on to say, Facebook, was very useful. This allowed my audience and potention readers to take a look at the magazine and the layout, giving opinions and ability to say what could be changed.