1. Personal Skills Audit Name: Georgia Johnson
Skills acquired How did these skills How will you develop these
contribute to the creation of skills during the A2 project?
your product?
Digital technology *Photoshop – Learned various *Photoshop skills contributed in *Photoshop can contribute to
- What image editing and image making the ‘company logo’ for things like the posters or the
equipment/software creation techniques. the title credits. album art, giving a professional
packages did you use to *Final Cut – Learned how to *Final Cut was the basis in finish to the items.
produce your edit clips successfully and how which we combined the clips *Final cut can be used to edit
production? to highlight certain parts of the and did most of the video the music videos and put them
image and how to use colour editing. together.
correction *LiveType was the program we *Live Type can be used to add
*LiveType – Learned how to used to create the scrolling dynamic text to the music
create dynamic text and how to credits and the title sequence. video, but on other items it may
overlay it onto the final video. *Garage Band was used to not be used as much.
*Garage Band – Learned how create the music behind the *Garage Band can be used to
to create music tracks and how clips. create ambient tracks or to
to import them to Final Cut. *The camera was what we used maybe edit the music.
*Sony Handicam – Learned to film the scenes. *The camera can be used to
how to operate the camera. film the music video.
Post production *Photoshop – Various image *Photoshop skills contributed in *Photoshop can contribute to
- What software did you editing and image creation making the ‘company logo’ for things like the posters or the
use to create your techniques. the title credits. album art, giving a professional
production? *Final Cut – Can edit clips in a *Final Cut was the basis in finish to the items.
- Discuss specific features variety of ways including colour which we combined the clips *Final cut can be used to edit
of the software. correction and timing. and did most of the video the music videos and put them
*LiveType – Can create editing. together.

2. dynamic (moving text) that can *LiveType was the program we *Live Type can be used to add
be overlayed onto a clip. used to create the scrolling dynamic text to the music
*Garage Band – Can create credits and the title sequence. video, but on other items it may
music using pre-made clips of *Garage Band was used to not be used as much.
instruments. create the music behind the *Garage Band can be used to
clips. create ambient tracks or to
maybe edit the music.
Research and Planning *Risk Assesment – We filled out *The risk assessment made our *We will use the risk
- What tasks did you a risk assessment of the area filming and editing safe for all, assessment to again evaluate
complete when we were filming, to ensure there and prevented injuries. risks during filming of the music
preparing to film your would be no accidents. *The call sheet gave us video.
sequence? *Call Sheet – A sheet showing directions to the location we *The call sheet will serve as
- How did your planning locations and emergency phone were filming and a way to directions to the set, and a way
help the smooth numbers. contact missing cast and to contact members of the
progression of your film? crewmembers. filming.
Using conventions of real *DOA *From all of these we took the *The effects we learned to use
media texts *Sunset Boulevard film noir ‘black and white’ effect may come in useful in creating
- Which texts did you *Se7en and used it for our movie. the music video.
analyse? *Sin City *Certain camera movements *The camera movements and
- Did you take any *We took inspiration from these, were referenced from the techniques we learned similarly
inspiration from the and used similar techniques in opening sequence of DOA. can be used in the final piece.
conventions found from our own work. *From Sin City we took the well- *The ‘Sin City effect’ may not
your research? known ‘Sin City effect’ that we come in as useful, depending
used to show the importance of on what the genre of the music
an object. video is.

3. Creativity *Most of our ideas adhered to *The conventions we used gave *We will look at the conventions
- Were your ideas for your the film noir conventions we the final film an overall typical of the same genre of music
portfolio imaginative and unique studied, as we wanted it to be film noir feel, and made the video we want to create and
or did you adhere to recognizable as that genre. On genre obvious. use these to make our video fit
conventions? the other hand we used a more into the genre more.
modern setting and more
modern props so that a wider
audience would watch the
movie.