Question 6 completed
- 1. Question 6 By Hannah Hopgood
- 2. Introduction From constructing my magazine I have learnt much new software which has helped improved the quality of my magazine. The technologies I have used for this project are go animate, survey monkey, Blogger, Photoshop, Prezi, soundcloud, slideshare and Powtoon.
- 3. Blogger In the initial set up of our blogs we used blogger which allowed us to create an account where we could store all out reseach, planning, construction ect so that it is easy to locate for the examiner as well as out subject teachers. I really liked using blogger and it help me to get my work organised in an effect way.
- 4. Survey Monkey When researching for my audience I used survey monkey which helped me to gain feedback from the audience finding out their interests such as what their favourite music genre is and what aspects of the magazine they are most interested in etc as to build a strong knowledge of the audience’s needs and wants. To get a good size of responses I posted a link to the questionnaire on facebook which is a popular social networking site for my audience, by doing this I got a good number of response to help me with my research. When creating this questionnaire I simply made questions and then added answer which the audience could reply with. I then analysed the results helping me to decide what feature I should focus on within the magazine as well as what genre was most popular with the audience. For the results it shows me the number of people that responded to the questionnaire. The results are shown in a clear bar chart which was very effective as it helped me to analysis the results quickly. For each question it shows the percentages as well as the number of people for that answer.Survey monkey effectively helped me in the audience research as it clearly showed figures and visual presentation of what answers where most successful.
- 5. Sound cloud Another piece of software I used to help me in my research was soundcloud as I created moodboard based oh each music genre to help me get a better understand of each genre’s layout as well as their iconography and mise en scene. For each of these moodboards I created a sound clip to go along with it talking about each one and analysing them. I did this through the use of soundcloud where I could record my voice off my phone and easily upload it to my account then link it on my blog. At first I didn't like how soundcloud worked but when i knew what to do I then found soundcloud to be very beneficial for my coursework as when I was looking at my coursework I could easily record my thoughts and then edit them to create a podcast about my findings.
- 6. Go animate On from this I used Go animate to help me represent my findings of the research of an already existing magazine: Rocksound. This allowed me to show my findings in an animation piece using two characters but this limited me to a maximum of 10 dialogues speeches so I had to be effective with what I wrote out as to get the most out of each sentence.I found go animate to be an ineffective software as yes you could create an animation clip but there wasn't enough time within each frame of the animation to expand on relevant information and pinpoint key aspects.
- 7. Prezi I also used Prezi which is like a slideshow but has a better quality, this helped me to show my research well in a visual way through the use of images and text. I found prezi to be the most effective when presenting my idea purely because of how easy it was to use as well as you could make the prezi interactive and add voice overs and music as to better represent my ideas.
- 8. Photoshop For the construction process of my magazine I used Photoshop. At first I found this software really hard to use as I didn’t understand it but now that I have worked on the magazine it has helped me to understand the software more by seeing different vector tools and what effect they can create. I used photoshop for my construction mainly helping me to create the magazine. I first i didn't like using photoshop as it was complicated but after exploring the vector tools and what effect they could create, I understood the features and different effects I could create through the use of different vector tools. After understanding this software i have learnt to like it as it is very effective in the way you can design things.
- 9. Powtoon Powtoon was difficult to use as it took so long to create each slide but I feel it does have it's advantages as it creates a good visual presentation to show ideas and ideologies clearly.