Evaluation question 6

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

Photoshop –

Photoshop is a software that I used to format my magazine front cover, contents and double page spread. I took images and text and placed them so that it came out with my final product. In Photoshop, I had to teach myself skills of how to crop, resize, order layers, place, reatrersize, spot healer, blur, use rulers, and also arrange photos so that they fit with my genre (simplistic). To teach myself how to use these, I watched videos, inquired my peers, asked friends and taught myself.

Blogger –

Blogger is website that I have used to upload tasks and blog posts. It is a really useful way of uploading as peers can view whenever they want and keep up to date with my posts. Blogger also allowed me to embed codes so that different platforms could be available to view on my blog. Platforms such as, slideshare, scribd, soundcloud, Canva, etc. These different platforms allowed me to show off my skills which is a helpful thing that blogger allowed me to do.

Camera –

D3200 is the camera I used to take my images and I learnt to place subjects in the middle of my shots that I took so that the reader knew where to look straight away. I also learnt how take the photos so that the subjects were well lit ad I did this by placing lamps directed at the subjects and this made the subjects turn out well lit.

Soundcloud –

Soundcloud is a format where you can upload audio files. I used this to answer one of my questions and I learnt how to keep calm when recording myself. I also had to embed a link from soundcloud into blogger. Using soundcloud allowed me to broaden my range of platforms that I used.

In the past, during GCSE, I used these platform just briefly. This gave me an insight into what I needed to do when I started these questions and blogposts. This made it easier for me and furthered my knowledge.