Blogger: I have really enjoyed using a website like Blogger to post the progression of my magazine; one of the many reasons is for the easy accessibility to uploading a new post/my work. At the same time, I was able to be creative in the way I presented my work using several different websites/software, which I will continue to discuss in greater detail further on. The way in which you could label and structure the blog was very handy also, making it easy for myself and others to navigate across. Despite having not used Blogger before, I managed to get the grasp of it very quickly; I had never thought of the idea of designing my own blog, however it has made me realise how simple it is to use/navigate/post on. However, I did have a slight technical fault occasionally, as it was sometimes difficult to upload a piece of work; also, the labels were quite difficult to assign to my blog, therefore I had to ask for assistance to place them on my blog, but that was quite simple once I had been taught.
Prezi: I found that using Prezi was a really fun way of completing and presenting my work; this is due to the big contrast from Microsoft Powerpoint, which made it interesting to use. However, having already used this software previously (therefore did not come across any issues I didn't already know how to fix), I found it quite simple to use, especially embedding the link for the presentation to post on my blog. I thought the idea that you could add music to your presentations was a cool feature, which I have used previously.
Camera: Before this activity, I hadn't particularly experimented with what types of shots and high quality photos my iPhone could produce, therefore it was great discovering what lengths it could go to. I already knew the basics to its limits, for example: brightness, filters, colours, zoom etc; this knowledge helped me create the best quality images to feature throughout my magazine, especially my main image on the front cover which was shot on an iPhone 6S camera. To improve the quality of the image, I experimented with different filters on an app called 'VSCO', making subtle changes to them. Despite using a Canon Dsi camera for some of the images featured on my contents page, I found that it surprisingly wasn't as good quality as the iPhone camera, therefore proceeded to use that instead. Also, by using an iPhone camera, it added quite an authentic look to the image; I thought it was great that I could experiment with the image manipulating it in several ways.
Survey Monkey: To create the surveys for my target audience with the focus of ideas for my magazine and what I wanted to achieve/what they wanted to see, I used 'Survey Monkey'. Although I have never used this software before, I found it really easy to use and very helpful also (thanks to how easy it was to understand/use, the results were simple to analyse when they came back, therefore I didn't have any issues with this software.
Fonts1001: This website was used throughout the production of my magazine for all the different fonts within the text in the product. Despite having never used this software before, it was so easy to use, in fact I'd definitely recommend it to anyone and use it myself again for future projects. It was very complex and simple to identify how to navigate across the website and create different styles of fonts. I was able to copy and paste the word(s)/number(s) really easily onto my work, with hundreds of different colours and styles to choose from.
Microsoft Word: To create my magazine, I actually used Word mostly throughout; this was due to the difficulties I faced with using Paint.Net. I found this software so much easier to use, as I have been using this software for years, therefore everything was very familiar to me, making it easy for me to complete my production with little stress.
Paint Dot Net: Initially, I had tried using this particular software to create my magazine on, however I came across many difficulties within the process and felt that I would be better suited to something I was more familiar with, therefore changed to Microsoft Word. Despite changing my software, I did search on YouTube several tutorials on how to use the software, however I didn't want to fall behind or lose time within the production stages and still didn't particularly understand the software altogether.
