Evaluation Question 6

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

For this project I had to use lots of different new technologies to create it, they can teach you good skills which you can use all the time, the technologies I used in this project were good to understand and learn as I can now use them for other things as well.

Camera

The camera I used for my project was a Nikon coolpix camera , before the project I rarely used the camera so I didn’t know how to use it properly , but after going through it I found you could change the kind of scene you capture, it can also adjust to the picture I’m taking , for example it has an anti blur motion for taking pictures of something like a train. I wouldn’t of used this camera if it weren't for the project and learnt the things that help you take better pictures.

Internet

Internet- Although before this project I knew about the internet really well , it was the things I researched on the internet that helped me with my project, as I was looking things up for my research I found the site press gazette, it gives statistics and information that I put into my project which helped me understand it a lot better.

Its useful for looking at the different publishing companies as I spent many times looking at these sites, the internet is the biggest help into looking up things for my project

Blogger

Blogger is a internet site for blogger’s , people can blog about anything on this site but I put my media coursework onto it , I created a page , I put my diary and print screens of all my work and homework on here so its easy to access, this displays all of my work , I’ve used this technology the most as it’s the most useful.

One of things I learned you can do on Blogger is to organise all your work into labels, so people know what there looking for can find it at the side ,for example if they are looking for my diary but it’s a few pages you can just click on the tab called diary and it will take you straight to it, another thing I learnt to-do was to add multimedia to it , I added videos of people talking about my front cover on there, I also learnt how to add pictures to my bogs as well.

This is the main page where my work is displayed so I made a presentable background and fonts for the page.

Photo editing software's

In my project when I had to edit the pictures , Corel didn’t have any ways to edit the photo so I used different technologies.

Picnic is a good online site where you can use many different effects on photos , it helped my photos look more professional , on my front cover I used an old rustic effect which made it look more effective than just a normal picture , I also used it on her single front cover ,I used different texts and a brightness effect.

I also used power point as it could make simple effects like making my double page spread photos black and white, I tried different technologies for example , Photoshop, but I found that I didn’t need to do any detailed changing to my pictures so I found I didn’t need the software at all.

Corel

Corel draw was the software I had to use for my front cover , contents and double page spread , so I had to use a lot , I got accustomed to the software because its very easy to use , everything is clearly laid out.

I learned the skills of finding different colours to mix and use for fonts and backgrounds , I also learnt how to create borders to keep everything straight.

With this software you can create barcodes which I use don my front cover, I liked using this software because I find it easy but one of the disadvantages was that it kept crashing a lot and losing my work so I had to save it regularly but it was still a good software.

These technologies have helped me to understand new software's and now in the future I can use them for work or different topics/subjects, these have defiantly helped me advance in using different technologies as I can experiment more with what I'm doing.