Q7: What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?

Photography

I used manual focus over for a lot of my photos because I liked the effect of the background being blurred and the model being in focus.

Photoshop

This is the layering pane which allowed me to achieve the effect.

One of the techniques I used during making the my media product was showing how I put the photos on my magazine together, for example the small Polaroid shots I used to the bottom left hand corner of my double page spread. I found that layering my photos on top of each other suggested a preferred meaning of scattered photographs, maybe on a girls dressing table.

Other technique I used was to adjust the brightness/darkness of the photos. I found this useful as one of my images was a little too dark and it affected the quality of my photo. After adjusting the brightness the quality of my photo was increased to a good standard.

Another technique I used was to make the main image overlap some of the magazine name. I found that most magazines I looked at use this technique a lot when editing the front page.

This is the layering panel that allowed me to create this effect.

Another technique I used was creating text behind other text to make the page seem more interesting. I made speech marks and then enlarged them and also change the opacity so they look almost invisible. I then placed them behind the small paragraphs to give it more of a effect instead of just having the speech marks with the paragraphs.