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

Within the process of my final construction I became familiar with technologies which I had to use in order to produce a professional looking magazine. I used programmes such as Microsoft Publisher and Photoshop

CS6, and even social networking sites such as Twitter, Facebook and YouTube. All of these programmes and technologies helped me to make the process of my construction run a lot smoother and faster and also helped me to create the construction to the best of my ability. I had to familiarise myself with these programmes in order to be able to use them efficiently.  

I had to use internet numerous times in order to obtain different kinds of data on different topics. One of the first things I benefited from was QuestionPro within my research stage; this helped me to get a large number of responses in a relatively quick amount of time. I found that this is much easier, cheaper and more efficient than doing my research by hand. I also posted links to questionnaires on social networking sites such as Facebook and Twitter, which made my response rate relatively large. The bigger the response rates the more effective and reliable the results are. Even though I had past experiences of using the internet, I still learnt a lot on how to carry out effective research through the use of the internet. I also used YouTube in order for people to be able to view my presentation in a more interactive way. Another way in which I used the internet is the blog itself. My whole project is stored on Blogger (electronic blog), which I had to learn about so that I can present my whole project. 

I also used technologies in order to manipulate my images and make them appropriate for my magazine and demographic. I used Photoshop CS6 in order to do this. After a while I had sufficient understanding of the programme and I was able to manipulate the images so that they are up to a good standard. This allowed me to create hyper real images of the models within my magazine, which is what my demographic expected from my magazine.

I used such as Microsoft Publisher to effectively construct my magazine.