Evaluation 6 & 7

What have you learnt about technologies from the process constructing your product?

Overall I think I have learnt a lot more whilst building my media product, I have had experience using a camera and photoshop when I used to make desktop backgrounds and thumbnails for youtube videos, but overall I think my photoshop skills have became a lot better over the recent months of constructing my piece. I learnt how to use some more effects like 'Bevel and Emboss' and 'Satin'. I also didn't know how to use effects like the paintbrush effect which gave my model a completely better look. Since I stopped editing on photoshop I forgot how to do some of the things on it, but getting back on to photoshop and editing was good overall and a bit challenging at the start but I got the hang of the new software and produced my front cover, contents page and double page spread.

Also I have used a camera before but when I took photographs I didn't consider the 'Rule of thirds' because I didn't know about it, also I just took photographs not considering the background, but I did consider the lighting because you don't want a bright photo. If i'm honest before this course I got a bit confused about Landscape and Portrait, but now I know. The camera I had used was a Nikon Coolpix L26, which produced top quality photos. I was pretty privileged to be provided with such great equipment. These photos didn't really need editing apart from taking the background out.

During this course we have been using software to keep track of what we have done, this is called blogger, it allows you to share your work with the world and show what we can produce. The blogs have also shown our teacher what we have done. We have also used  online powerpoints called slide share and prezi. These softwares are also new to me and I was a bit confused at first but I gradually got the hang of it.

Looking back at your preliminary what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to the full product?

It has been a long time since the preliminary task and I can tell that my work has improved a lot and my finished piece looks 10 times better. The first magazine I created was very poor and now my magazine looks very professional. I looked at style models a lot more and was very careful with my main task.