Evaluation Question 6 Answer Part 1

What have you learnt about new technologies from the process of creating this product? 




 Photoshop is the most common use for editing pictures and creating media products like my own. Also, InDesign is another, which is good for writing in columns and getting them in the same size columns. Both are good quality and professional.
However, when you are creating a magazine, you want it to be the best possible magazine available on the market. You need to find out if the magazine is right for your target audience. Questionnaires/surveys is a good way to find this out. Typically surveys would be done on paper and handed out by hand to which I have used this technique in my feedback, however, nowadays, online is the best way to do it, especially with my own target audience. I have to understand what my target audience do and what is the best form for getting feedback from them, hence why most of my surveys are done online. By using websites, it also makes it quicker and easier to get results. I used both techniques to ensure that I got a range of people as not everyone would find the survey through the internet. Recently, there has been advertisements of Survey Monkey on the TV so this will gain recognition of the websites that are available to use, then for my questionnaires and then also to my magazine, so it is good using this sort of technology in different ways.
To talk about my magazine and it's progression I have used Blogger which is a site that you can create your own blog on and post just about anything on it at any point anywhere, so it's quick and easy. This is a good way of getting visuals of the progression of the magazine and also a chance for the audience to see it and say if there is something that could be changed or added. Blogger has allowed me to become a prosumer in the age of Web 2.0. I consume texts from the internet, however I also produce texts which can be seen by a global audience. Means of presentation varies; I have used Slide Share and Prezzi to show slideshows, as well as emaze and slid.es. Podcasts are another form which are also used in other websites and music magazine websites.
Varying methods of presentation is also good through sites such as Prezi and Slideshare, videos through Youtube.
Using the internet and technologies through this is a good technique for my magazine not only because of it's ease but also it reaches my target audience due to them being young which young people often use the internet. This helps build status for the magazine and popularity.
All of the techniques I have used are online, therefore I have learnt that the popularity of the internet is growing and how it is far easier and cheaper to do these techniques through it. I have also understood that people prefer visuals of what is happening rather than just writing and so this is good to keep in mind for the future.