1. Personal Skills Audit Name: Milo Watson
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?
Final Cut Express HD
Photoshop
Slide share
HD camera
Blogger
Cubase
A further understanding of what
I can use that will help me
capture what I want to portray
helping to compliment the
meaning behind what’s on the
screen.
I will attempt to explore further
into what I have already learnt
by pushing myself further than
what I achieved in my AS. I will
research in used technologies
that have been acquired in
music videos that I have taken
interest in. I will be
experimenting more than I did
last year to see what works well
for what I want to achieve.
Post production
- What software did you
use to create your
production?
- Discuss specific features
of the software.
Photoshop
Final Cut Express HD
Using final cut I was able to
achieve what I wanted in my
footage. At first I was unsure on
what to do and how to get what
I wanted with the software but I
was shown a few tutorials on
how to start off on editing. I was
able to create a tensed
atmosphere in my footage with
the alterations of colours,
shadows and highlights.
I will spend some of my spare
time revising on how to
achieved advanced editing to
help create a larger impact on
my final outcome.

2. 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?
Web sources: Wiki, YouTube, These sources provided me
with information that I could use
to help create what I wanted,
this included definitions and
tutorials on how to achieve
particular things within the
media project.
I will use a wider range of
sources following further
advanced tutorials on subjects
that I deemed hard.
Using conventions of real
media texts
- Which texts did you
analyze?
- Did you take any
inspiration from the
conventions found from
your research?
Internet use
Books
Radio
Magazines
The sources used gave me a
stronger understanding of the
conventions used, as they were
direct sources of media.
I will extract further information
that is more reliable helping me
further understand what I want
to achieve
Creativity
- were our ideas for your
portfolio imaginative and unique
or did you adhere to
conventions?
For my final outcome I wanted
to be conventional, as I wanted
the effect of other films in the
same genre.
I used web sources such as
You Tube and IMDB to analyze
the same area of film that I was
interested in
I will further analyze footage in
the same criteria that I’m
wanting to do but will indulge
further than just using web
sources. As I want to get a
much clearer understanding of
how to achieve what I want.