Question 6

The technology I have used:

Mac (apple computer)

Photoshop

In-design

Professional Camera

Microsoft word and PowerPoint

Wordpress

Slideshare

Mac Computer

I had access to the apple Mac computer because they have them in college, the mac is what I did almost all of my coursework on and it is what Photoshop, InDesign, word and PowerPoint is on

I learnt many shortcuts on how to do useful things on the mac, such as screenshot (Shift+cmd+4)

Photoshop and InDesign are both made for Mac computers, and I used them on the mac rather than a windows computer because it made it a lot easier

I did, however do most of my blogging on a windows computer because it was easier, I did find that it was difficult to transfer some files from mac to windows computer, however

Adobe Photoshop

Adobe Photoshop is what I used to create my magazine cover and contents page, also my two mock covers (college magazine and mock music magazine covers)

I found that Photoshop is a lot easier to use than InDesign, but that may be because I had come across Photoshop before and had some experience with it

I did watch many Photoshop tutorials in order to find out how to do some things, such as change background colours

I also learnt how to link a Photoshop document with an InDesign document, which became very helpful in creating a background for my double page spread

Adobe InDesign

I used InDesign for the creation of my double page spread

InDesign was the hardest piece of technology to use for me, I found it was very complicated and difficult

I had to go on YouTube in order to find video’s on how to insert picture and make these images fit the boxes I made

After a bit of practise I finally figured out how to do everything I needed and it became easier for me to use InDesign

I also learnt that fonts that you download for Photoshop also work in InDesign which was very helpful in creating my double page spread

Microsoft Word and PowerPoint

I used microsoft word and powerpoint for my coursework and blogging, I also used slideshare to upload these powerpoint presentations to my blog

I had used both of these and I have had plenty of practise, therefore these were the easiest to use.

Microsoft PowerPoint is very useful in putting courswork into a different form, making it more interesting to look at rather than just blocks of text

Wordpress I used wordpress to do my blogging

Wordpress is very useful because it is free to use and to create an account, therefore it was the easiest to use for a media coursework blog

A good thing about wordpress is that you can go back and edit your previous posts which is very useful as I could go back and improve everything

I could also use previous blogs from people who have done media studies in the past, this is good because I know what I need to aim for and what quality my blog needed to be

I also learnt how to embed YouTube videos which means I was able to upload the photoshop tutorials I used etc.