Media Evaluation Question 6

Question 6: What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product constructing this product?

Throughout creating my music magazine ‘Wave’ I have used new programmes and different forms of technology that I haven’t used before, It has gave me more confidence in the production of my own media product and I would know what to do if I was asked to do it again and could improve on it.

The first thing I did in the production of my magazine was to place a photo shoot, I had never used my camera before so I was just experimenting with what I could do, when finally choosing photos that would suit the style of my magazine I used Photoshop to edit them and turn the picture into the front cover of the magazine. I have never used Photoshop so I had no idea what I was doing, the first thing I did was try to edit the photo by making it black and white however I still wanted the girl to be in colour in the photo as it caught you eye as the only form of colour on the page, I managed to crop the girl out and place her on top of the black and white image, after tweaking the photo a lot I was able to make the image approachable, I now feel a lot more comfortable with Photoshop and I would definitely use it again if I was need to create something of this format. When placing a photo onto Photoshop for my magazine front cover I was able to have grid lines on my page to show the rule of 3rds, this was very helpful in placing my photo and in placing my text and subheadings.

For my double page spread I used the programme Indesign this programme was perfect for the task of creating a double page spread as It had already made the layout for the 2 pages, I just had to fill one page with a photo I had a taken but first I put the photo into Photoshop so I could mess around with saturation and edit it so it looked more stylish and fitting into my magazine, after I was happy I placed it into Indesign and started on the three columns of text for my interview, I made sure I started the interview with a drop capital as this added to resembling a real music magazine.

If I had to create a magazine again I would use photo shop for the front cover page and I would use Indesign for my double page spread again, however I would not use Photoshop on my contents page and I would probably use Indesign for it as Indesign would make the page look more composed and where I have used Photoshop I just looks like a bit of a mess.