Marcia Exam practice question 1a

‘Digital technology turns media consumers into media producers’

The main experience which helped my creativity was that I was developing new skills every time I adapted my designs and when I was producing my coursework. The skills I was developing were things such as with the digital technology e.g. how to take the right picture for the coursework, we had to get the correct lighting, angle and positioning of the person or people and the clothes they wear for the pictures.

Another skill was to be able to use Microsoft word, publisher and PowerPoint to be able to change the images, create posters, and produce PowerPoint presentations and to create the whole magazine. These could be also used to create mind maps of what to do with the magazine and information collected. Another uses for technology would be Microsoft word to make a questionnaire to get people to fill it out, Microsoft word can also be used for making records/results from the questionnaires e.g. charts, lists, data records and static’s.

Another skill was with the camera and deciding on the angles, lighting and positioning of the people and knowing all the terminology and names of the different angles for the camera shots. With the results and records from the questionnaires I did helped me create my magazine because of the different selected questions to help with colour, name and what they would want to see in the magazine, with this help from the audience so I know what they are looking for in a music magazine and what they would prefer to see in it such as gig dates, interviews and reviews on different upcoming bands and their albums.

When creating my music magazine I needed to find out about the target audience that I was looking t to create my magazine, this involved drafting out a questionnaire for them to fill out and tell me what they would like to see in my music magazine also the price of it and information about up coming bands and albums. Also when creating my magazine I had a few problems with Microsoft word, this program wouldn’t let me put images or writing where I wanted it to go so I had to re-start the magazine in Microsoft publisher and this sorted out the problems I first had and would let me add new thing in my magazine with out moving them about the screen.

With my digital camera I had some other problems. All my images I wanted were outside which meant that some of my images were too bright or dark so when I got them onto a computer system I had to lighten and darken them, which didn’t take too long but I could of spent more time designing the magazine than sorting images out. The digital camera also gave me another problem which was that it ran out of batteries in the middle of taking the pictures, but I had brought spear batteries just in case this happened, with this happening I lost some time when I was taking pictures. However theses problems I had were easily fixed and didn’t take too much time off me making my music magazine.