Personal Skills Audit Name: Ellie High

Skills acquired How did these skills contribute to the creation of

your product?

How will you develop these skills during the A2 project?

Digital technology- What

equipment/software packages did you use to produce your production?

Camera Final Cut Photoshop Garage Band Prezi Slideshare

The camera was used to film our opening sequence. Using effects like blurring out the shot to make it look eary.Final Cut was used to piece the footage together to create the opening sequence.We used Photoshop to create our logo for the opening sequence by adding the blood to the logo to make it fit in with the conventions of a horror.

Use the equipment in more depth to be able to create my music video. As I wasn’t the main editor I feel it would be best that I develop my skills as the editor

Post production- What software did you

use to create your production?

- Discuss specific features of the software.

Final Cut Final Cut was used to edit all the clips of the opening sequence together to make sure it could be to the best possible standard.

I feel that I will be using Final Cut in A2 but will be using this at a more advanced level to help me create my music video.

Research and Planning- What tasks did you

complete when preparing to film your sequence?

- How did your planning help the smooth progression of your film?

Evaluated films to fit with the convention of the opening sequence

Storyboard

Watching other opening sequences that fitted with the convention of ours helped as it gave us a detailed look at how others have made their opening sequence and what they have used to make it feel like a horror to the audience.Also by creating a storyboard this helped us put together scenes in the opening sequence and what was specifically happening.

I must research in depth about the genre I will choose to make my music video around and find out what I must include in the video to help it fit into the conventions of this genre.

Using conventions of real media texts

- Which texts did you analyse?

- Did you take any inspiration from the conventions found from your research?

Watching opening sequence of other films

9 Frame analysis on “The Ward”

I analyzed the opening sequence to the film of Cabin Fever: Spring Break

By watching more real media texts analyzing them in a lot more detail can help me and my group to come up with more ideas

Creativity - were our ideas for your

Although the groups creativity was used in the opening

I feel that by doing this we showed we could combine our

I feel that because of the task in A2 our group will need to think

portfolio imaginative and unique or did you adhere to conventions?

sequence to give it a different feel. I also think we used conventions from other horror movies so that we could make the opening sequence deliver a good reaction to the audience.

own personal creativity skills and conventions of other media texts to create the opening sequence to the way we wanted it.

a lot more about where we make the video and who is in it. Also the conventions to fit the genre. This will make us develop our skills from AS.