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

I developed PhotoShop skills by using lots of the different tools within the program.

I used techniques such as, drop shadows, strokes, inversing selections, editing photographs with contrast etc.

This is a screen grab I took whilst I was using the Drop Shadow tool in PhotoShop.

This is a screen grab I took whilst I was using the Stroke tool in PhotoShop.

I leant that Flickr is a much easier way to annotate my work, or any work. It's very useful for analysing products, and I used it a lot to annote my magazine, and other magazines, for example: Billboard.

I had never used Blogger before starting our media work. I found that it's a much easier way to store, organise and change your work, instead of having to print everything out and hand it in. It's very simple to use. I think that evaluating my work on Blogger instead of in an essay form is much better, because of things like: when evaluating different aspects of my media work - it's all broken into sections and divided by elements such as links and pictures, which makes it a lot easier to concentrate on writing small chunks of writing, rather than one long paragraphed essay. I think that when writing an essay to evaluate something, you can lose the ability to pay attention to detail, whereas on here, you can write as much as you can, because of the fact it's broken up.

 

Equipment I used:

Nikon Camera

I learnt about things such as shot distances, and unusual/interesting angles when using the camera. Taking all the photographs straight on at four people would've been very plain and uninteresting for the reader, so I took my photographs from all different angles and distances. My two favourite angles where: taking the photographs from below - looking up, and having my band sit down, with me sat closely infront of them to take the pictures.  

Computer

Lights for the photograph shoot

The very bright lights made it so all of my photographs weren't dark and blurry. The bright lights on my band meant that the camera wouldn't have to use flash - making them shiny and red-eyed. I had never used the lights before. They also made it a lot easier for the camera to pick up little details and made the white background more purely white than cream - as it would have come out in normal lighting.