Personal Skills Audit Name: Richard Parker ______________________________________

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?

For our AS project we used the following programs and equipment to create our final product: Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, Final Cut, IMovie, Blogger, green screen, and cameras.

The skills helped towards the production of our project as it allowed us to present our ideas through a physical form, so the audience could experience our ideas, thoughts and creativity.

To develop the skills I have previously learnt in my AS project I will continue to use and explore the programs and software I used and continue to learn new techniques etc with the equipment so I can build on what I already know.

Post production- What software did you

use to create your production?

- Discuss specific features of the software.

In post production we mainly used Final Cut and Photoshop. We used them to edit our ruff shooting and elements of the project, so that they where at a presentable standard. Final Cut was a very useful piece of software as it allowed us to do more than we could have done using inferior software such as IMovie.

The software I used in post-production really did make the project as it took it from a few ruff clips to a finished product. The software (especially Finalcut) allowed me to add all of the conventions of the genre in to my film, by adding effects, music etc.

Once again I will just continue to use the software and become more confident using them and explore there features so that I can get the maximum from them.

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?

Tasks we did to help prepare us for the filming of our project where mainly research tasks on the genre and conventions of the genre of our film. Which helped is understand what really needed to be featured in our film and the way we needed to film it etc.

Research was essential to the success of our project as it allowed us to give a much better representation to the genre and allow us to understand the task in much more detail than we could have done without research being done before hand.

To use the research tasks I learnt in AS I will consider the types of tasks I did and the recourses I used to gather information when trying to research my A2 project.

Using conventions of real media texts

- Which texts did you analyse?

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

The real media texts that I looked at and analysed where: LA Confidential, Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, Sin City, Big Combo. From these films we learnt the conventions that are included in the genre and how they are effectively used in the films.

Watching these existing films helped me to understand how the conventions of the genre are worked in to the films in a creative and effective manner. I also got a better understanding of how the camera moved and the way it captures the actors on screen.

From watching existing films of the same genre I have developed my observational and analysis skills which will should come in useful in my A2 work.

Creativity - were our ideas for your portfolio imaginative and unique or did you adhere to conventions?

I believe that my portfolio was pretty imaginative, as I used several different ways to present my work, which I felt put the specific pieces of work over to the audience the best.

Ultimately the portfolio is what get marked and what is seen by other people. So being creative really helped the portfolio to be more appealing and present the work better to whoever is looking at it.

When trying to be creative in my as project I used a number of different ways to present my work, so in A2 I will hopefully take on board some of these methods to present my work.