1. Personal Skills Audit Name: Declan Healey
Skills acquired How did these skills contribute How will you develop these
to the creation of your product? skills during the A2 project?
Digital technology • Final Cut These skills helped contribute to I will use the skills and carry them
- What equipment/software • Garage Band the creation of the product over into A2 but with hopefully a
packages did you use to • Photoshop because they helped to organize better outcome because I will have
produce your production? our movie clips into the full a greater understanding of how to
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sequence as well as being able to use these skills to gain a more
• HD Sony Handy cam gain a basic understanding of how effective and better outcome over
• Tripod to use these programs and the course of A2.
equipment.
Post production • Final Cut In this software we used many Once again as I have already
- What software did you use to • Garage Band little features within the software gained an incite to how to use
create your production? • Photoshop so that we could get the product to some of these techniques I will be
- Discuss specific features of the satisfaction that we wanted. able to use them this year to a
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the software. Some of the tools that we used further understanding and maybe
within the software, where clipping to even work at a quicker pace and
tools so that we could shorten the get more done in a shorter space
clips to the length we needed. We of time.
used other things such as colour
saturation to edit some scenes
that we wanted black and white.
Research and Planning Some tasks that I completed These tasks helped me too As I have done this in AS it will
- What tasks did you complete whilst preparing for my film contribute to the creation of the give me more of an understanding
when preparing to film your sequence where tasks on product because it helped keep and knowledge of how to go about
sequence? programs such as Time Toast, me in order and enabled me to the new task and create a better

2. - How did your planning help Prezzi, Blogger and many more. keep track of what I had and video. I will also know how to use
the smooth progression of The planning helped as it gave hadn’t done. It also provided the programs and be able to
your film? me an insight into what I was history into a depth analysis of navigate them faster and easier to
aiming towards in my work. horrors and how I could carry create files to a quick standard.
some of the conventions into my
short movie.
Using conventions of real media • Halloween All of these conventions and As I carry this over into A2 I will
texts research helped as they gave our know what I need to be looking for
- Which texts did you analyse? • Researching the Internet group an understanding of horrors and what examples I will be
- Did you take any inspiration for conventions and and what to expect whilst watching needing to look at for a different
from the conventions found ideas one. If it weren’t for the research task. So this will help in A2 to
from your research? then we wouldn’t have known create a new piece of work to a
some of the conventions to include better standard.
in our work.
Creativity For my portfolio I tried to stick to The portfolio was great as it My portfolio in A2 will be aimed to
- were our ideas for your portfolio a horror theme, as it would give organized all of my work including hopefully once again portray what I
imaginative and unique or did you the impression of what I was research, construction, planning am doing and be easy to navigate
adhere to conventions? aiming towards. This is why my and evaluations for the moderator and find things easily.
pages where dark, I was trying and teacher to see and find
to create an eerie and dark everything a lot easier.
background to use for my
portfolio.