1. Personal Skills Audit Name: Daniel Aldridge
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 The use of planning on These skills made for a more By using a range of camera
- What Microsoft Word was a skill that effective use of time and also shots to achieve a more
equipment/software had been improved as Many as the camera equipment was immersive experience that
packages did you use to planning task apart from used more positioning and makes people want to watch
produce your storyboarding, which was done retakes of scenes became your production again.
production? on paper. Using the camera more effective and more
equipment was an acquired skill convincing to watch by and
as it wasn’t something that I audience.
have done before that has to be
presented in the way it was.
Post production I gained skills with a range of These skills helped to create The development of these skills
- What software did you equipment and software by the final product by allowing me will be using more of the
use to create your using programs such as ‘live to complete tasks to a high programs functions and
production? type’ to create titles for our standard. As improvements capabilities to create a more
- Discuss specific features opening sequence. Also using could be made all of the time as effective product. And the use
of the software. ‘final cut express HD’ the new ideas had been thought of. of equipment will be more
opening sequence was put effective as it is more
together, along with understandable as it has been
postproduction images created used before.
on ‘Photoshop’ with include the
company logo.

2. Research and Planning By using as blog for a record of By organizing what work had This will allow us to carry out
- What tasks did you work this was a skill that I been completed and knowing tasks at home, and know what
complete when acquired as before this I had no what was happening when we point we are up to without
preparing to film your experience of doing this. By are set to record/film a having to record what I’m up to
sequence? creating a call sheet we sequence it helped to meet in another way. By creating
- How did your planning organized when and where we deadlines. many planning tasks I’ve never
help the smooth where going to meet to achieve done before so I can do them
progression of your film? our filming goals. again.
Using conventions of real During the previous tasks I This helped our view on how These skills will develop during
media texts looked at multiple media texts, horrors where presented and A2 by researching all genres of
- Which texts did you mainly consisting of horror texts how it effected the over all music videos and then as I
analyse? and opening sequences as we immersions of the clip. By progress focus more on the
- Did you take any created an opening sequence. understanding how media texts genre I hope to use during my
inspiration from the This gave us an understanding used postproduction techniques own production. Also the use of
conventions found from and some skills we could use to make an effect really helped postproduction techniques will
your research? when creating our opening the creation of our own help to achieve a suitable
sequence, from tings like the sequence. outcome that looks appropriate
font used on the titles and if any to the visual video.
the transitions used.
Creativity The idea of presenting an The ideas already associated to These skills will develop by,
- Were our ideas for your evaluation of our work on wix horror films and our research using my time to recreate some
portfolio imaginative and unique was a good way of giving good into opening sequences helped clips to use if they are not right.
or did you adhere to presentation on what we have in some aspects of production, This will improve the final
conventions? achieved. But our sequence but slowed us down in others product that will be created.
adhered to the usual conventions where we tried to recreate
of a horror media text. some aspects.