Q6. What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?

Hardware

The Cameras that I used to take the images that I have used to take images that I have featured in the music magazine that I have created are…A Nikon D3100 With a 18-55mm AF-S Nikkor lens with manual aperture f11 With 1/300th shutter speed.

A Cannon 750D with a 18-55mm stabilization lens with automatic aperture.

Horseshoe Flash Trigger

Infra red signal sent to strobe flash – trigger the flash in-sync with the camera shutter (Speed set to 1/300th sec to match the strobe speed)

Hemisphere 300 – strobe flash

Dial on back of the flash adjusts the flash output modeling light on. Auxiliary lights set to slave (triggered in-sync with by built in light sensor)

Backdrop

The backdrop is lit with a further two strobe lights on full power to create a high exposure, white background.This means that when the photo is being edited it is easier to determine the background from the main focus of the photo.

IMaciMac (20-inch, Mid 2009)

Graphics card NVIDIA GeForce 9400 256 MB

IMac – processer 2 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo

IMac - Startup diskMacintosh HD

Software

Programs

PhotoshopI have used Photoshop editing package to compose my music magazine cover and contents page.

I have done this by inserting images that I have taken on a digital SLR camera and have then removed the background using a snipping tool. I have also created new layers over the image to the add aesthetically pleasing graphics that fit will the over all aesthetic of the page and also add text box layers to the page to create the over all content of the pages.

Word PressWordPress is a blog website that I have used to present the work that I have done e.g. the preliminary questions, the planning for my music magazine, the market research that I have done on music magazines, the finished music magazine that I have created and also the subject evaluation.

I have split my WordPress blog up into three pages Home, which show cases all of the prelim work that I have done before I created my finished music magazine, Evaluation, this represents all of the work that I did to create my music magazine and the equipment and techniques that I used, Finished Magazine, this showcases my finished product of my music magazine.

Google ChromeGoogle chrome is the search engine that I have used to do my market research, access my WordPress blog, upload my work that I have done (Finished magazine, evaluation and prelim questions) to my WordPress blog.I also have used Google Chrome as a source of inspiration for my music magazine and the content that has been used in it.

InDesign InDesign is the package that have used to create the article for my music magazine on a landscape A3 page.

I have done this by inserting images that I have taken on a digital SLR camera. I have also added aesthetically pleasing graphics that fit will the over all aesthetic of the page and also add text box’s to the page to create the over all content of the pages. I have also edited the manipulated the text in a way that the text will surround an image instead of moving underneath the image.