The student learned about various technologies through creating their magazine product. They researched using a computer and wrote articles using Microsoft software. Photos were taken with a Nikon SLR camera and uploaded to the computer using a memory card reader. The most difficult part was creating the magazine using Photoshop on the computer to upload photos, edit them, insert text and shapes, and design layouts. While Photoshop enabled designing the magazine digitally, it was sometimes frustrating to use. The entire process relied on digital technologies converging to enable creating the magazine on a computer rather than through previous longer manual processes.

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

2. • Digital technology has been used for the
entire process of producing my magazine. The
first step was to research, I had to research
the music industry, indie mass audiences,
indie magazine conventions and magazine
layouts on a computer, this was fairly straight
forward. I wrote my article for the double
page spread on Microsoft at home on my
computer, I then used a USB to transfer that
article on to the college computer.

3. • I had to use a Nikon SLR to take all of the photos that I
used, then I had to upload them all on to the computer
by using a memory card reader; Using an SLR allowed
me to take high quality, professional photographs. The
most time consuming and difficult process was creating
the magazine. I had to use Photoshop for the entire
creation of my magazine. To simply summarise my
Photoshop process; I uploaded photos, edited the
photos, inserted different texts, added shapes, used
design layouts and deleted them after placing my own
products on top of the blocks.

4. • I am thankful that Photoshop exists, however, I found it
very frustrating on many occasions as it doesn’t always
work according to plan. The whole creation task uses
technological convergence, as I am able to make the
entire magazine on a computer, whereas in history
magazines were made by a much longer process
involving people, not computer devices. After saving
my designs as J-Pegs, I posted them in a Facebook
group for a few of my friends to review my work. The
entirety of my work is due to computers which I used
to do all of that work, which is an amazing example of
technological convergence.