Evaluation:- "What have you learnt about technologies from the processing of construction this product?"

I believe that technology plays an important part in media, because without it the fonts, the use of cropping images down to go well with the magazine, the fonts they use, colours etc... magazines would not be so popular as what they are now. I believe that all the different types of new technologies has helped me to achieve my magazine successfully, including Quark Express, photoshop, the internet etc...

One way I believe new technologies has helped me to complete my magazine is the way of cropping images down to the way I wanted it, which you cannot do on other technologys like microsoft word. An example of this would be of the small picture of the female teenager on the contents page with her punching her fist out to the audience. My first picture of the teenager had a background of a brick wall, but photoshop helped me to cut out the background to just keep the person. The way to do that is to highlight over the image you want to take out of the picture using swatches, then just click it and drag it away. Doing this became very effective for my magazine and makes it look better without the background.

I believe that Quark Express for me was probably the easiest to use compared to photoshop and thats probably the reason why I did my front cover and double page spread on Quark, but that doesnt mean that Quark is the best technology to use. Text boxes were the most difficult thing on Quark as they left the boxs lines around the outside, which doesn't make the appearence of the magazine look as good as it could be. But on the other hand, this technology does have some positives, including tools, which are very easy to find as what you want is either displayed to the side or the bottom. Then going back to the double page spread it was useful because it was easy to add the pages side to side. So eventhough Quark is probably the easiest and quickest to use, I believe that photoshop gives you the best overall result in getting a final result for a media magazine.

The internet also helped me in the whole of my coursework, from the start to finish. It help me at the start of my coursework to research into some magazines to see what the audience look for in a magazine, but also what forms and conventions the publishers use in their media magazines, looking at what different fonts rock magazines use and also colour, layout etc... This turned out to be very useful and helped me to put together my magazine. Youtube was another technology that helped me in my coursework. By using it I could upload my videos of people I have interviewed for one of my questions onto my blog. This has been helpful for my evaluation and I have learned a lot more in using this new technology.