Saturday, 6 February 2016
What have you learnt about technologies from this process of constructing this product?
As a
previous GCSE media student I had already developed a range of skills through
the different technology forms that I used during this process, however,
through this process I learnt about new technologies such as blogger and a
range of presenting my information.
Pixlr
During this process I refined my skills. I used
Pixlr to edit my music magazine. Through previous use, I had found that it
provided professional editing techniques that I could use to improve my
magazine. For example, I used the ‘heal’ setting to remove any imperfections on
my music magazine. This was an important stage to creating my magazine because professional
magazines are typically airbrushed and ‘flawless’. As well as ‘heal’ I used the enhancing settings
available on Pixlr to brighten my image and increase the contrast to make the image
more striking. This made my magazine more advanced as, through research, I found
that a convention of magazines was a striking, eye catching images. Because I was
familiar with Pixlr I did not learn new skills but instead refined my own to
create a more professional magazine. I think that my use of these features was
successful as it made my magazine cleaner and therefore more appealing to my ‘aspirers’
target audience.
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| Figure 1 - First attempt at editing out knees |
To create my double page spread I used a combination of Pixlr and Pages.
I used one image as my double page spread which I edited through Pixlr. This
image originally showed the models knees, I had done this because ripped jeans
are a current fashion trend, however when finalising my image, I thought that
the knees were distracting and so I had to remove them. Firstly, I attempted to
heal the knees out but due to the amount of exposed skin the retouch looked extremely
unprofessional (see figure 1). Therefore,
I had to reconsider my approach to amending this issue. For the final image I
downloaded a black square which I super imposed onto my image, this covered the
knees, I then healed around the square to create the elusion that the jeans
were seamless. (see figure 2).
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| Figure 2 - Final image |
I feel that this was a successful
way of overcoming the issue, however, I feel that Pixlr still limited my
editing. For example, the Pixlr app in which I was using did not have an
airbrush option that would have benefitted me throughout constructing my magazine
and creating a more professional piece.
Blogger
Before starting this process, I had not come
across Blogger. I learnt how to publish and organise my blog (by creating
headings) in order to make it easier to read. This process taught me that there
are a range of ways in which to publish your product. I found that I enjoyed
the process of being able to easily present my magazine and comment on it in
one format.
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| Figure 3 - Evidence of organising blogger into sections. |
I was able
to successful grasp the concept of blogger and overcame issues that the program
presented. For example, on of my evaluation videos would not upload due to the
capacity of the video. To overcome this, I created a YouTube account to which I
added the video and inserted the link so that the video could be viewed.
Movie Maker
Furthermore,
when composing my evaluation video I used ‘movie maker’, a program that I had
not used before. I had to use an effect to deepen my voice. When creating the
video I was the voice for both the voice over and Jessica’s thoughts, therefore
to distinguish between the separate sections, I used an effect to deepen my
voice and make it sound like a different person.
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