1. Personal Skills Audit Name: Bethany Thornton
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 we used a camcorder to record i-movie allowed us to put the With the skills I’ve learnt from
- What the footage for our coursework. software onto the computer and editing the footage will help me
equipment/software A tripod to keep the camera transfer it to final cut to start transfer the skills to A2 ready
packages did you use to steady at all times supported editing our footage but cutting for the music video coursework.
produce your the skills required to use this. the scenes and adding titles
production? We also used final cut and I etc.
movie to edit our footage.
Post production The features we used to create The song we created from Using all of the software which
- What software did you our footage was the editing garage band was put into the helped us create out final
use to create your techniques in final cut. final sequence to give more of sequence in AS, in A2 I will
production? Transforming the scenes by an effect to our chosen genre. take these basic techniques
- Discuss specific features cutting them down to size and Without these sounds the and learn more advanced skills
of the software. deleting the bits that were not sequence would not of been which will help develop the
needed. The garage band given its full effect. We used project for A2.
software allowed us to create music to build tension to the
music for our horror genre by horror sequence.
creating sounds using all
different types of instruments.

2. Research and Planning We created a storyboard to With the storyboard and script I learnt that planning things
- What tasks did you plan our idea of what each we created it was easy to plan before actually trying to conduct
complete when scene was going to entail. But out the scenes and what we a scene from scratch helped a
preparing to film your we first we did a lot of research were going to do and how to lot. So in A2 I will sit down and
sequence? on the background of horror stage them. With the stage plan and come up with lots of
- How did your planning films then started looking at the directions from the script it was different ideas instead of
help the smooth opening of a horror film. Then easy for the actors to jumping straight into it.
progression of your film? we wrote up our initial ideas understand so filming ran
smoothly.
Using conventions of real I analyzed the film saw 4. I had With the conventions we seen Finding out all of the
media texts to analyze a scene. I broke it from the films we all analyzed conventions of the subject I’m
- Which texts did you down in to bit by bit looking at and how the plot unfolded studying really helped me to
analyse? all of the conventions of a within the first 3 minutes we understand the meaning of the
- Did you take any horror film. Then with the incorporated them into our film. So when working on the
inspiration from the knowledge I had from the horror sequence. Using the music video in A2 I will do a lot
conventions found from previous mind map I made on same techniques that was used of research behind the song I
your research? Prezi I could pin point all of the in Saw with the jump shots choose to get a real
convention. opening the scene. understanding.
Creativity -Mind maps We used inspiration from I will try to be more creative
- were our ideas for your -Scripts different films to adhere classic with my own ideas and try to
portfolio imaginative and unique -Using conventions. conventions. create my own style and create
or did you adhere to new conventions.
conventions?