Technologies

Technologies played a big part within the production of my magazine, but just like on a day-to-day basis everyone finds technology a vital part in their lives and have become more reliant on it. Throughout the research,planning,production and evaluation of my product I have gained a wider knowledge within various programmes. Below I have listed a variety of technologies in which I used to help with my product, how they helped and why they were suitable. 




Blogspot.com 


Blogspot was the main website in which I needed to use to progress my evaluation. This meant learning new technological skills as I have never used this programme before. Evaluating the website I overall thought it was a very easy and successive format to display my work on.











Photoshop

Photoshop was the most valuable programme within the production of my magazine. It provided the equipment to edit my photographs and get them to high quality standards making my product more proffesional. Although it was hard first learning how to use the programme seems I have never gained a in-depth understanding of the programme throughout trial and error and step by step learning I was able to increase my level of knowledge with the programme substantial amounts and complete photo editing and production to a high quality standard. 







 
Facebook

Facebook was one of the primary sources of collecting target audience feedback, although normally used for socialising this seemed like the ideal technology to use to extend my indepth research into target audiences likes and dislikes.









DSLR camera

I used this technology to record my "target audience feedback". This enabled the video to be high resolution and easy to understand, see and hear. Although within my production and photo taking of the product I was not equipt with the technology of a DSLR camera, therefore had to use a smaller mega pixel - this effecting the standard of my magazine images but was dealt with by creating a "storyboard" image look on the double page spread to confine the images to smaller sizes therefore reducing effects of blurs and pixelated imagery.




 
Computer + Printer

This was the most vital technology I used within my Media coursework as it was the source of my presentation,production and planning. It allowed me to research magazines, use proffesional programmes such as Photoshop to produce my product, and also websites such as Blogspot.com to evaluate my product and also communicate with my target audience. This would be a hard task if I did not have acess to the computer, or a printer to gather my work.