Music Magazine Evaulation Question 6

Question 6. What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?

What I learnt about technologies from the process of constructing my music magazine is that I needed lots of technologies to help me construct my music magazine. Firstly I need a camera, a flash box, a soft box, radio trigger and Photoshop software. I’ve used a Canon EOS 400D Digital camera and I’ve used this type of camera because it would of made the quality of my picture very good and also it allowed me to focus on areas that I wanted. I’ve used a Bawens Gemini Esprit gm500 flash because so I could increase the brightness of the pictures that I’ve took since I took the picture in a dark area. I’ve used a 60 cm soft box is because to make the images soft instead of sharp when I took the image the outcome of it made my images soft and it made my image have a good quality as well. I’ve used a radio trigger for the camera because would be connected to the flash and when I take a picture it would time properly and give me the lighting that I want, if I didn’t time the radio trigger properly it would of made the lighting of my image dark. The main problems I had when I was using the camera was that I had to hold the camera it’s because I didn’t not have a tripod which would hold the camera when I take picture and there would be some pictures where I made mistake with the picture because I didn’t hold the camera steady.

As you can see these are the images that I had issues with because as you can see with the image on the left there a huge gap in the image and I wasn’t able to use it for my front cover because it’s not a medium shot because it also showed parts of her leg. And the other image I had issues with because it was a landscape and I can’t use a landscape for a front cover because there no magazine that uses landscape image as their front cover.

Another technology that I’ve learnt about from the process of constructing my music magazine is using Adobe Photoshop CS3 software. My skills on Adobe Photoshop were very limited because I’ve never used Adobe Photoshop before so I found it hard to edit my magazine. What I learnt when I was using Adobe Photoshop was that the tool was easy to use to edit like the brightness/contract tool. The reason why I’ve used the brightness/contract tool was because to make the skin tone darker to make the model more real because when I took the images the images looks too light.

I also learnt that I could import fonts in Adobe Photoshop from www.dafont.com and this really helped me constructed my magazine because it allowed me to used different fonts instead of the default font that was already installed in Adobe Photoshop. In my magazine I’ve used 4 different types of fonts including the barcode with is also a font.

I also learnt that Adobe Photoshop allowed me to make patterns, this was really useful for me because it on my double page spread it I’ve replaced a colour with a pattern and I’ve done this because it was a convention from a real existing magazine. What I’ve done is that I’ve used a rectangular marquee tool and I’ve highlighted part of my model clothe and copy the layer. After I opened up a new page which fit the size of the layer that I’ve copy and I would define the pattern so it would be pattern section and the reason why I’ve done this is because when I use the paint bucket tool it will fill the word with the pattern that I want. After I click on the letter I want and I would use the paint bucket tool and fill the letter with the pattern.

Another thing that I’ve learnt in Adobe Photoshop is that there is a grid where it shows grid line over the page and this was useful for me because I can see where I place my text and where you place your text is important for a magazine because you don’t see text over the place but in a fixed structure