1. Personal Skills Audit Name: Joshua Howie.
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 HD camera, which These skill used to help create These skills will be developed
- What was used to film the sequence; my final media product helped to a higher level in my A2
equipment/software also we used software called in many ways, The camera coursework to achieve the
packages did you use to Garage Band to edit the final helped contribute to our film as grades I want. I’ll research
produce your audio. it captured the footage which more and have a greater
production? The software we used to edit was vital to our sequence, understanding of Garage Band,
the final sequence was ‘Final Garage band was a vital to thoroughly understand the
Cut’ contribution to our sequence as audio.
it helped edit and finalize the
audio, also ‘final cut’ helped
contribute to the creation so we
can finalize and make it look
professional.
Post production The software I used during Post These skills helped contribute During the A2 project, I will
- What software did you production were: A prezzi to to my finished product As the research more on Final Cut so I
use to create your finalise my evaluation. Final cut prezzi helped to make the have a better idea and a more
production? was used to edit the film piece evaluation look professional thought out plan on what I am
- Discuss specific features and Cubase was used to create and different. The use of doing. I will make better sounds
of the software. the soundtrack. Cubase was helpful as we got and samples on Cubase, and I
the precise music genre for our will make the prezzi more
film piece, also it was simple to appealing, thus making it gain
use so we managed with time more marks for a higher grade.
well. Also Final cut contributed
2. to our final piece, as we got the
editing to look its best and
professional.
Research and Planning We created a storyboard of The storyboard allowed us to Make a more elaborate
- What tasks did you each shot of the film. see how we would include each storyboard, do it so it’s
complete when Also we created a spider shot, also to see the height and interactive and online. Same
preparing to film your diagram with our ideas on angle of each shot. with the spider diagram.
sequence? about everything. The spider diagram allowed us
- How did your planning to gather a rough idea of our
help the smooth film piece.
progression of your film?
Using conventions of real I looked at many texts in my The researched into the genre I will develop these skills by
media texts film piece; I researched into the helped contribute to the analysing my research more,
- Which texts did you genre to get inspiration and production, as we knew what this giving me more ideas and
analyse? ideas. I looked at Sunset we wanting to achieve as a film. developing my A2 Media
- Did you take any boulevard; this gave us good The sunset boulevard research product more professionally.
inspiration from the useful inspiration and we got helped a lot as we gathered
conventions found from the conventions down to make many conventions; speech,
your research? our film piece. acting, dress code and lighting.
Creativity For my portfolio I made sure This helped my production and I shall make sure I keep up a
- were our ideas for your that the colour scheme creative ideas. Also it made the consistent house scheme of
portfolio imaginative and unique resembled the Film Noir genre. blog more appealing and to only 3-4 colours this time.
or did you adhere to I used black, white and the appear to the film genre of Noir.
conventions? occasional red.
