Technologies

Camera - For my images I chose to use a DSLR camera, a camera that despite being of a compact size and design can capture good quality images, key when creating a magazine where the quality of the image is the key to creating a neat, non pixelated final product.

Lighting - Lighting wise, I chose to use the studio lights, large on a stand they generate a false but well lit environment to take images. I also used natural light outside as well as a dim conventional bulb for the garage shot as garage music is the focus of my magazine.

PC Work Station - To produce and process the images text and everything else going into the magazine I used a PC desktop computer with relatively good specifications, giving the power to create the magazine along with various software as explained below.

Photoshop - And its tools such as cropping, creating images, lasso and other selection tools, colouring, filtering, effects and much more allowed me to generate a quality design and finish to my magazine and its contents.

Microsoft Office - The staple for word processing, evaluating and relaying research information onto my blog, with the help of online softare as mentioned below.

Prezi - The online PowerPoint alternative allows work to be directly embedded into my blog, handy for the evaluation tasks that have quite a few individual points to make and easier than paragraphing.

Flipsnack - An online PDF formatter, makes boring PDFs into a nifty flippable book style reading format and can embed directly into the blog similar to Prezi.

Survey Monkey - Used to conduct my surveys and send them via email and link to generate key information such as target audience and other magazine aiding information and data.