This task included brainstorming,research and a lot of ideas, and of course it could not be done without technology as technology played the major role in the production of our final media project (magazine). Technology has been a part of the project since day 1 of this entire term as it plays a major role for the success of any type of the media industry.
In todays time, almost every other person on earth own their personal electronic gadgets like mobiles phone devices, computers etc and of course not to mention they work with the Internet, which is one of the most important thing now in this time. It helps us to find the information we require in seconds. In the whole term of my AS I feel blessed to have technology or God knows what would we be doing withour technology right now. The social networking sites, not forgetting to mention the online presentation tools and photoshop are some of the most important things in the life of a student who takes media studies.
Before taking Media Studies , I always thought that Photoshop was one of the most horrifying,difficult and irritating software to use because of which I used to run away from it but little did I know that Photoshop would become the most important thing in our lives regarding our project. Photoshop definitely was a nightmare for me in the beginning but as time passed and with a lot of failures and struggles regarding some of its tools like ,the Polygonal Lasso Tool which really made me cry one day because every time I would use it and then I would mess something up but as I began to work on it more it got a bit simpler.
I learnt a lot of new and definitely easy things like adding text, the horizontal type tool and moving pictures and text with the Move Tool, applying transformations and cropping etc.
Without Photoshop the magazine would not be made. Though the whole process was full of mistakes and difficulties, but I improved with and learned a lot of new things. Knowing photoshop also landed me a position in our school events media team in which we had to make id tags and flexes.
My cell phone also played an important role during this project I owned an iPhone 5s which was with me 24/7.I would take notes on my phone so that i do not forget the tasks i am supposed to do and it really did come in handy when doing my project also it was really easy to carry with me all day , I also used it to take pictures if they were needed for the project when the camera was not available.
My Dell Lattitude E7440 Laptop was the most important gadget in my entire terms as all my work depended on it.Without it, it would have been impossible for me to work. I used it for creating presentations, saving pictures, searching the internet for inspirational picture for the magazine and most importantly for photoshop. I blogged all my project process since day 1 on Tumblr on it as well. Luckily I did not have any problems on working on my laptop,because working on the school computers was a risk as sometimes the saved stuff does tend to get deleted with out other people knowing and i definitely did not want my project to be deleted.
I used Google Chrome and Opera for researching on my magazine genre, to know about it's codes and conventions, to find inspiration for my magazine and to to look at the famous magazines of same genre as mine.