By creating my music magazine I have learnt a lot
about the technology used, the time given up and the processes that go into
creating a music magazine. To create the overall product and blog I needed to
use a number of different technologies such as a camera for my images, Adobe
Photoshop to edit the images, an Apple Mac computer, the Internet for sites
such as blogger, Slideshare and Prezi and Microsoft word.
Time management was key in creating my music
magazine whereby I had set dates for myself of which tasks needed to be
completed by, this gave me extra time whereby I could create my music magazine
and still have enough time spare at the end to make any changes if they needed
to be changed in order to improve my music magazine as a whole.I have also
learnt a lot about the music industry from my research and planning. I learnt
all the codes and conventions that needed to be included, the layout of
magazines and how journalists collect their information about celebrities for
their double page spreads and how they wish to portray each individual artist.I
used a range of different technologies throughout which helped my create my
music magazine. The camera I used for my images was a Nikon D5100, I was not
experienced in using the camera therefore I asked the help of my friend to
teach me how to take images, zoom in and out and how to look back on the images
I had taken. After a few practice images I was then confident in
taking the images for my double page spread, as I was very familiar with the
camera.
Before creating my music magazine I had never used
the programmer Photoshop therefore it was not easy for me to start
using, I had to take a lot of time to practice and learn all the
different tools. From learning how to use Photoshop allowed me to be able to
use all the tools I would need in order to create a music magazine for example
I learnt how to cut the background off of images and edit the images for a
brighter tone to the magazine as a whole. The overall main technology I used
was an Apple Mac computer, which is very difficult to use if you’re new to the
idea, you have to use different applications in order to get a feel of how it
works. Copy, pasting, cutting text and images are different on this computer
than on a normal windows computer therefore was slightly difficult to start with.
After I understood how to navigate around the laptop it was easy to use the
laptop to create my music magazine. I used the Internet in the process of
creating my overall product for blogger, blogger was easy to understand and use
which was helpful as this is where most of my content for my overall product
will be situated. Slideshare and Prezi are websites, which I used on numerous
occasions to show my work in an interactive way and both were easy to use.
Although I found these websites easy to use I did have slight difficulty with
working out how to get the presentations onto my blog, after researching I
found how to embed the videos in order for them to be visible on my blog.
If I could change a part of my music magazine I
would edit the writing of the inside stories on the front cover, I would maybe
put them in text boxes where they stand out and are very easy to read, as at
the moment some of the words are not clear to read as some of the words blend
in with my models hair colour and the background colour of the magazine. I
believe this would be a good improvement to make to my music magazine.
