During the time I have been constructing my music magazine I have
encountered a range of different technologies and programmes which I would not
of come across before. Using these programmes allowed me to develop the skills
I needed to do the work and also possibly in further life. The programmes
allowed me to create my final piece professionally and easily!
Blogger
One of the main programmes I used was ‘Blogger’ which allowed me to show
people the stages I went through, my research, selection process and other
steps I went through to create my final piece. Blogger made it easy to document
what I had been doing and my final pieces.
The initial thing I had to do when starting up my blog was choosing the
design on my blog. I did not want to go for anything too over the top and
wanted to ensure that it was easy to read and the user did not get distracted.
I also wanted the design feature to be easy to navigate through.
Another thing I had to ensure was efficient was the labelling system. I
could not have the blog with just posts so ensured I labelled them. I used the
labels; Preliminary task, main task, research, target audience, evaluation and
planning for the labels so the user could differentiate the different sections
which I had put my work into. Each piece of work has a label on it and these
are visible at the side of the blog for the user to click on.
I also had to put multimedia onto my blog, such as Youtube clips and
pictures which allows the user to see diversity to the blog. Luckily this was
fairly simple and not hard!
Camera
For my pictures I used a Canon 7D which is a great camera and ensures my
images are not blurry. The pictures were taken with this camera as I thought
they would be better quality that the previous ones I took before with an
iPhone therefore I felt it best to go with a high quality camera to get the
best results.
Photo shop
Photoshop was my original choice to design my magazine on, however after
attempting to do so I decided to go with another programme. Although photoshop
is a efficient programme I felt it was not good for me therefore I only used it
to edit photos.
For my double page spread I used photo shop to edit the main photo. I
used it because it a great programme for editing, therefore I felt it best to
use. I found it difficult to use at first but after a while I learnt how to. I
adjusted certain settings to make sure that the photo went exactly how I wanted
it to go.
I also edited the photo on the front to make it black and white and also
removed any marks from the background.
Corel Draw
Corel Draw was a completely new programme to me as I have never used it
before ,and after decided to use it instead of photoshop, and found it quite
hard to use. Corel draw has many features which are used to make a magazine and
it is very professional.
Corel draw was the programme I used to design all of my coursework on
and I found it very efficient to do so. I like that I could make it look like a
magazine and it appeared seemingly easy to use after getting use to the
software. I like Corel Draw because it gave me a vast range of things to use.
Corel Draw was efficient because it was easy to use after and while and
effectively got the work done. I liked it because it made my finished product
what I wanted it to be and I doubt the other software available would of done
the same.
Internet
I used the internet a lot in my project as I researched a lot of
different things. I also used it to see what other music magazines were writing
about and what kind of thing was popular in their magazine.
The internet was an extremely useful tool to identify which kind of
magazine does what and how I could form mine around this.
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