What have you learnt about technologies from the
- 1. WHAT HAVE YOU LEARNT ABOUT TECHNOLOGIES FROM THE PROCESS OF CONSTRUCTING THIS PRODUCT?
- 2. Throughout the task we have used technologies such as Photoshop, blogger, Facebook, slide share, cannon and Microsoft. Firstly I have mainly learnt the different aspects that different programs can give to you on a basic level. However on different forms of technologies there is different techniques that come across where you can go beyond the basic level, especially on programs like Photoshop where the production mainly takes place.
- 3. Photoshop: The main function I used was photo shop, within this software you are able to do so much and be so creative within a task; from cutting out the background to changing colours within photos in an effective manor. As Photoshop was mainly the fundamental part of the production, the production part within photo shop allowed us to use different techniques to make the product look professional. One of the main ways in which I believe photo shop was effective was when manipulating an image. As some of the photos I took weren't professional as such, Photoshop gives you tools in which to make the images stand out more and be more creative. Not only does photo shop allow you to improve skills on image manipulation, it also helps when constructing the magazine with the use of alignment of text, and also different uses of texts to make the magazine different. However some of these fonts did come from www.dafont.com
- 4. Blogger: Blogger is a useful website that enables you to promote the production you are doing and show an audience on what, why and how you are creating something. Blogger is easily accessible and easy to use for you to promote your media, and also the research behind it, however sometimes you would have to use slide share to be able to put on some programs i.e Word. One of the key ways to promote the media was to use the labels when uploading to products, which then allowed you to compact your work into different segments to make it easier to locate specific forms of the production
- 5. Cannon: Another key device that was used to make the product was a cannon camera; this form of technology was crucial in being able to use the equipment right so you can get the right image. Even though on Photoshop you would later edit the images take, it was stil idle to get the lighting on the photos right and the right angles. Also the cannon camera allowed us to adjust the different focuses, which enabled to take numerous effects on photos. As on the main image the focus would be the face of the model, this would be what our focus would have been on. Whereas in other photos the model could be doing hand gestures that would look good in focus with the rest out of focus.
- 6. Slide Share: This sort of programmer allowed us to put on different documents that weren’t compatible with blogger. For example when writing a word document, to put it on your blogger you would have to put it through slide share first. Slide share is easy to use and easily workable when wanting to delete projects etc.
- 7. Prezi: This web browser was a way in which you can put across an evaluation question in a different way to just a simple word document or PowerPoint. It allows you to be creative in presenting an answer to a question; Helping the answer flow from one point to another. It is a creative technique to make work look presentable. However at first it is hard to get used to, after you do get used to it the different techniques and layouts makes work look more professional.