Q6 what have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?

Through constructing my media product/ music magazine I learnt a lot about the equipment required in order to construct the product. Firstly through creating this media product I gained the knowledge in using a canon E0S 400D camera, this was the camera I arranged with my teacher to use during, the task to produce a distinctive music magazine that could be recognized by an audience. The camera I used achieved what I wanted it to; all photos were taken in a studio where a blue screen was behind. The photo on the front page and double page spread both used this background in order to show consistency as well as a magazine view to it. The canon definitely met the quality I wanted it to, picking up the slightest of details as well as showing overall great quality in the images taken. Out of a possible 15 images I had taken, 13 of these actually could have been used for the front cover, contents page and double page spread, suggesting the camera proved good use.

Although the canon E0S 400D was good it had to be used in conjunction with another type of technology, a program used on the computer. The program was called Photoshop, software used in creating, editing and also viewing imagery; this was an adobe product and was very necessary. At the beginning of my course I had not used this program once and had no familiarity to it, over the time of creating my magazine I found it less time consuming and simpler to use. My computer had adobe Photoshop CS3 installed, which is a basic version of the software allowing you to do all of the essentials. The main problem