What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product
- 1. Alice and Harry Media Evaluation What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product? All of the technologies we used helped to create a professional and unique approach to our magazine spread. Without these specific programmes the magazine wouldn’t be created in the same way and the final outcome wouldn’t have turned out as strong as it did. Blogger Using blogger to begin with seemed confusing and challenging, however as we began to publish posts to our blog we learnt different way in which we could present the posts, and how to edit how and where they were presented in the blog. Changing the colour of the text in the blog made a difference to our work as it make it more presentable and professional, we could also change the font colour and style depending on how bold or informative the text was. We learnt how to change the background in the blog so it was relevant to our theme, we chose a simple black and white concert photo to match the genre and target audience of our magazine, to make our blog even more readable and approachable we kept to a black, red and white theme which is the stereotypical colour scheme for a pop magazine which was our chosen genre. Instead of just adding simple JPEG or PJEN images to our blog we learnt how to embed images which helped expand the amount of media sources we were able to involve. Changing documents into images also became useful so there weren’t blocks of text which could’ve potentially looked baffling to read. Audience research required YouTube videos being embedded into the blog, learning how to do this made external sources presentable within the blog, another example of an external embedded source we used was Prezi, embedding Prezi power points enabled us to show our work on the blog in a different more interactive manner.
- 2. Alice and Harry Media Evaluation Photoshop Using Photoshop at first seemed rather daunting however using tutorials and teaching ourselves how to use particular tools resulted in us being able to extend our outcomes in more impressive ways. By the end of editing our final product we were able to add drop shadows and add various effects to our images for a professional and legit outcome, doing this meant that the audience would find the magazine more professional to look at and more attractive to the eye. Contrast and brightness was an important effect whilst creating the final outcomes of out images, doing this and involving the labels meant we could make particular parts of the face brighter than other parts of the body if it was necessary. Using layers and the eraser tool allowed a colour splash effect to be given, this was a complicated process but the final outcome looked professional and of high quality. We wanted to keep a quirky and edited feel to our pop magazine, this is why we removed the background and added a false and edited shadow to a background filled layer rather than keeping an imprecise and somewhat fussy shadow. Flickr and photo bucker and slide share These were programmes where we could upload our images o, this meant we could then easily embed them to our blog making it more interactive and a more approachable way to viewing our on-going artist research and magazine spreads. Slide share was particular convenient as we could upload word documents which could then viewed online and embedded into the blog to viewed straight off of the blog, simple and effective to the reader.
- 3. Alice and Harry Media Evaluation Illustrator Illustrator was a brilliant programme to use if we wanted to create our own logos and join text together, because illustrator uses vectors instead of pixels, the images then converted into Photoshop wouldn’t be affected in resolution when stretched and adjusted as they’d been imported from illustrator and converted into a smart object, meaning the resolution would never change.
- 4. Alice and Harry Media Evaluation Photography When we took the images for the magazine we realised that using natural light and editing from them wasn’t as successful as using a flash on the fact, the flash made the brightness of the fact too high and ruined the quality of the picture, We used a studio with a white backdrop which meant we could easily edit out the background if need be. We learnt how to use the camera and change the setting accordingly o the lighting we were in. Positioning the artist was important to suit the demographic. Scanner Using the scanner was helpful to document our journey and show how we developed our ideas. Scanning images meant we could put our written work straight onto the internet because sometimes writing things down and brainstorming can be simpler and more effective than designing and editing on the computer.