Evaluation question 6- What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?

In this blog post, I will be answering my evaluation`s question 6

when creating this media product, I utilised a collection of technological programs and technologies, for example adobe indesign and adobe photoshop. In addition, Ive learnt a lot about these programs, information and tips I didn't know before. they were absolutely imperative for my media products construction and improved my media greatly.

Technologies used:

• Adobe Photoshop
• Adobe Indesign
• Internet explorer
• Mobile phone(iPhone 4S)

Adobe Photoshop

 Adobe Photoshop is a graphics editing program, that allows me to edit the photo's I'd taken, it was extremely useful in the development of my media product and helped me vastly in adjusting images and photos. It was one the prime programs that created my magazine pages. An example of me using Photoshop`s facilities was when I changed the photo`s effect to a greyscale one. Photoshop made this possible as I was able to manipulate the image on the program.  Not only that on the front cover of my magazine I constructed my format and template, changed the opacity and transparency of certain images and fonts, so that it would maximise readability. This simply wouldn't have been possible without this convenient  technology. However, photoshop isnt built for text and writing like InDesign is, but is more specialised for photos and images.



Adobe InDesign

Adobe InDesign is a desktop publishing software application. This program had a major function in the process of generating this media product. This program allowed me to easily format my template and layout of my article page, with great proficiency and accuracy. It was the basis where my whole magazine was put together. At first, I made the choice of doing all of my pages on Adobe photoshop because I was more familiar with how it operated. However, as time passed and being prompted by my teacher, I had to use InDesign, simply because it turned out to be better with textual data as photoshop is more specialised with handling photos and images. The outcome of this transition from photoshop to indesign was positive.





Internet explorer

Although, Internet explorer had no direct relation in the construction of my media product, it still allowed me to gain inspiration from other hip hop magazines, in  which i leaned and applied the conventions of real media products to my own product. I also used Internet explorer to research real media products and analyse how they use the conventions and why. Nevertheless, without Internet explorer, I may have lacked the sufficient resources for me to research the genre and audience of hip hop.






Mobile phone(iPhone 4S)

My mobile phone also played a part in this as well. With my 8 megapixel camera, it was easy to take photos on the move. However, the quality obviously lacks the high standard of a professional, photo specialised camera. Nevertheless, the phone also has applications that make it convenient. I could use these apps to edit photos like I would on the computer but not with such precision. Furthermore, with the Internet features, I could do research, gain images and more almost anywhere.



Conclusion

Ultimately, I used a collection of different technology and they have all  helped me with my objective of constructing  a Hip Hop magazine front cover, contents page and double-page spread article in a diversity of ways and without it; the end product  that I generated would be noticeably  less professional and of a much lesser quality. Furthermore, It would have also resulted in me being less conventional in my production and showing less cohesive and clear research, planning, skills and evidencing