Evaluation Question 6

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

Throughout the process of creating my media product i gained the ability to use many different technologies. Before doing this actual product i had never touched Photoshop before so it was like a brand new experience. At first i wasnt confident at all with using Photoshop, however eventually i managed to be a lot more confident and i succesfully completed my main product with full confidence that i did a pretty good job. I also got a chance to use the Apple Macs, learning to control an Apple Mac computer was difficult at first because it was so different from using a normal computer and i have only really had a slight experience in using them in the past, this slowed me down at the beginning of the process, but after a couple of weeks of using the technology it gave me many advantages,  mostly because of the easy use of taking printscreens and the way it displays Photoshop.

Photoshop was the main technology I worked with over the creation process of my media product. This program was hard to use and get used to at the start and was very stressful throughout the whole process but without it the creation of my media product wouldn't have been possible. All the possibilities that Photoshop opened up to the creation of my magazine such as: the ability to edit my photos, add text and vital information and create my whole magazine! Overall the Photoshop tool came in extremely useful in the construction of my media product and was the most handy tool we were provided with.

We got to work with many other tools whilst constructing our product; cameras, Prezi, Animoto, Slideshare and other physical forms of technology such as video cameras, these are things thta i never knew existed before i started doing this course. The use of cameras (FinePix HS10 HS11) was huge in the production of my media product. The digital images i captured using the cameras we were provided with were the backbone of my magazine and helped me create a very proffesional approach.

Overall, throughout the construction of my media product i have gained the ability to use many different technologies which are helpful in the media industry, all of which came in unbelievably handy in the production of my magazine and will help with other things over time also.