What have I learnt about te

chnologies from the process of constructing this product?

InDesign

• InDesign is the program I used to produce my magazine pages• It is a mac OS only program• It has many simple and advanced tools to help you easily

create designs for many things including magazines.

During the creation of my preliminary task cover, I had to use InDesign. This was my first experience with the program, so I did not know how to make full use of all of its features. I only knew of the basic features such as Layers, text boxes and inserting images

This time, I already had a grasp of the basic features of the program. Since I had much longer to complete the task, I had a chance to experiment with the more advanced features. I learnt how to add effects to my images and text which made them look more original and stand out more.

Photoshop

• Adobe’s Photoshop is an image editing tool• It has many advanced features to edit

photographs and other images• It’s not very easy to use for beginners due to

the huge amount of buttons and tools.

I did not make use of Photoshop during the creation of my preliminary task so the only experience I had with it prior to my music magazine was a few years ago when I briefly used it in year 8.

Because of this, I did not risk spending too much time experimenting with Photoshop’s features. I used it to do a basic edit on the image I used for my double page spread. It was not used for anything else.

Internet resources

• Blogger, Prezi, Slideshare etc• Websites I used to help present the research

behind my magazine.

Blogger I used during my preliminary task. That was my first time using it but that didn’t really matter because it is a very simple website to use. This time was no different. I had to post updates often on my blog to show progress in my magazine and research to do with my magazine, such as target audience research

Prezi I had not used before so it is new to me. It allows the user to create more visually appealing PowerPoints. I learnt that it can be annoying, unhelpful and sluggish at times, but the end results do look good.

Slideshare was useful for uploading PowerPoints I had made for my research onto my blog. It was very simple and did not give me any hassle.