Personal skills audit ian chapman

Personal skills audit ian chapman

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  Personal Skills Audit Name:Ian Chapman______________________________________ Skills acquired Digital technology - What equipment/software packages did you use to produce your production? • • • Post production - What software did you use to create your production? - Discuss specific features • • How did these skills contribute to the creation of your product? We learned how to use the HD cameras in a number of different ways using different things to help like a tripod and a track and dolly. We also learned how to use Final Cut to do all our editing and put different sounds, images and videos. I also learned how to use Garage Band for a lot of our sounds as it aloud us to make the sounds that we are looking for. • We learned how to efficiently use final cut pro. Whilst using this software I found out • • • The camera skills helped in the making of our product because we ha to use these pieces of equipment to get our shots. Once we had our shots we used the program Final Cut to edit them all together. As well as the videos from the camera we used the sounds we made from garage band to put them behind the video that was on screen. Final cut helped with the creation because it was the only piece of editing software that we used throughout the How will you develop these skills during the A2 project? • • • • These skills would be essential in A2 as we will have to use a wider range of shot and speeds, with different types of equipment. The editing stage of A2 would have to be developed further again using different techniques The sounds that we use will be more complicated so the way in which we manage them will have to be developed I will experiment further with final to find new techniques and ideas that would help get across the message of
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  of the software. aboutdifferent filters, transitions and techniques that would help during the creation of 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? • Using conventions of real media texts - Which texts did you analyse? - Did you take any inspiration from the conventions found from your research? • • • We learned how to analyze different opening sequences so that we could understand common conventions of most horror films This made it easier to formulate ideas as we had conventions that we could either choose to follow or challenge. We watched different opening sequences of the sub genres of horror We decided to use the common slasher conventions • • • • • production process This gave the product more flare and helped it to establish the mood of the video • This skill helped to make the final product because throughout the filming we knew how and what to do to fit in the horror genre. This helped us to make the storyboard which gave us a guide to follow during filming • This helped us to decide what sub genre we would follow This helped o focus our ideas on the main conventions of this subgenre • • • our chosen song Depending on the mood of the song, the features within final cut will play a crucial part in the editing process. We will us the ability to analyze will play the same part as it did last year This will show us how to make our video in the genre we choose We will watch some of the music videos of bands that we know and read about them in magazines The conventions of our chosen genre will help us to design everything within the video
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  Creativity - were ourideas for your portfolio imaginative and unique or did you adhere to conventions? • We decided to use a variety of different techniques to make our portfolio whether it be prezie presentations to green screen productions • This helped to keep it all interesting and prevented it from getting mundane • We will use the same kind of techniques for this years portfolio so that it will develop our skills further