Question 4: Evaluation- what have you learned about technologies from the process of constructing this product?

I used many different types of software to help produce and plan my rap music magazine.

To plan my music magazine layout i used Adobe InDesign to create a flat plan which helped me design my layout of the magazine's pages such as cover, contents and double spread page interview, this included making the right sized item boxes and positioning them correctly. Using InDesign i was also able to use it to create a finished product of my music magazine whilst using InDesign  i learned many skills to create the perfect design on my magazine such as adding colour to font and pages also changing the weight and indentation of letter to create a drop cap or adding circles.

I also learned how to do new things on Microsoft Word Document such as creating the mix tape on the bottom of my contents page which i made from scratch using different sized shapes and colour fills, using Word i also made my own Barcode which is on the bottom left of my cover page which taught me how to add different weighted lines and group them together, i then had to export them over to my finished product back over on InDesign.

I then used Adobe PhotoShop to edit the photos seen on the double spread page interview to do this i had to learn how to edit the exposure and levels on photos also to increase and decrease the levels of posterization.

To take the pictures of the model that is in my magazine i had to use a DSLR camera which required my skills to adjust the zoom, focus, light and dark exposures and the orientation of the camera to take the perfect shot that would fit perfectly into the layout of my magazine.