Question 6

Question 6

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  WHAT HAVE YOULEARNED ABOUT NEW TECHNOLOGIES AND SOFTWARE FROM THE PROCESS OF CREATING YOUR MEDIA PRODUCT? QUESTION 6 – SOPHIE ROBSON
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  LIST OF HARDWAREAND SOFTWARE USED Throughout the process of creating my magazine I used a lot of different tools to create my magazine. • Prezi • Photoshop • Mac • Canon Camera • Professional Standard Lighting • Powerpoint • Powtoon • Word • PC • Blogger
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  APPLE MACS Most ofmy work was done on a macs. I used this as I felt it gave me the chance to understand how to use them more as up until now I hadn’t had much experience using them up until now. I used it to access programs such as photoshop etc. to create my magazine and do a lot my research and planning. Using the macs made it easier to use photoshop and edit things easier. This gave me a lot of transferable skills in all of my subjects so it was helpful to understand how to use all the programs and hardware.
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  BLOGGER Blogger helped meorganise all of my research and planning. I had heard of blogger but had never actually used it as I thought it would be complicated and too hard. However I found it easy to use and helpful to keep things organised. I customised my blog to make sure it would appeal to my target audience and was easy to navigate and use. I chose to use labels to make it easier to navigate and so the user could find what they were looking for easily. I used blogger to present all of my research and planning, final products and my evaluation.
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  PHOTOSHOP I used photoshopto create my reader profile, drafts and final products. Previously I had no experience of using photoshop and didn’t know how to use it very well. It helped me learn the basics and more advanced skills. I used it to create my magazine and edit my images I chose to use. Editing the images helped me present them the way I wanted to so they would appeal to my target audience. I learned skills that helped me in photography. Throughout the I used the crop tool to change the image sizes and make sure they fit the page. In most of my images I edited the levels so the colours and contrast was emphasised. I used the rulers to make sure that all my text was allied correctly to make sure it was organised and structured. I used the burn and dodge tools to lighten and darken pictures where I needed to make sure the image looked the best it could and blended the backgrounds the best I could.
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  CAMERA AND LIGHTING Ihad previous experience with the camera and lighting from photography so I knew how to set the lighting etc. to create the best image I could. I used this set up so I could create high quality images and make sure they weren’t pixelated. I was able to customise the settings in the camera to make sure I got the quality of image that I wanted and make sure I got the lighting the way I wanted. I was able to experiment with the different types of lighting so I could decide what I wanted to achieve. In the end I chose to focus mainly on high key lighting as it was the most common lighting used and hid the flaws of the model..