Magazine Production Evaluation

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

During the process of constructing my media product I have used the same software that professionals use when producing magazines. I used Adobe Photoshop for creating my front cover and Adobe InDesign for my contents and double page spread. I found Photoshop easy to use as I have used it in the preliminary task and in the past for GCSE media. However I found InDesign to be more difficult as I have had no practise using this software prior to the preliminary task. Now my product is complete I feel that in the future I would be more confident in using Adobe InDesign as during the task I slowly came to grips with the software.Throughout the process of this task I have been using Blogger to document my progress. In the brief we were told to make our blog as interactive as possible so I incorporated websites such as Scribd and Slideshare to achieve a blog that is interactive and intuitive. I also embedded youtube videos into my blog to make my blog more appealing and user-friendly. I used youtube videos for my audience feedback focus group and to show several videos from bands/artists from the indie genre.I have enjoyed using Blogger and found that it is a good way to show how far I have come during this course. I am pleased with the outcome of using Scribd and Slideshare however Scribd has proved to be troublesome as at times it would not work properly on my blog.