This document provides guidance to a student on evaluating their skills development in digital technology for an assessment. It instructs the student to list productions they have completed that required digital technology. It then asks them to choose 5 productions and describe the technology used, how it was used, and its creative impact. This will allow the student to see how their skills with specific technologies have developed over time for their assessment response.

1. DIGITAL
TECHNOLOGYSECTION 1 A

2. Lesson Aims
◼To look at how I used digital technology in my AS & A2
work
◼To think abut 2 different approaches to writing an essay
for Section 1a
LQ: HOW DO I EVALUATE MY SKILLS
DEVELOPMENT FOR DIGITAL TECHNOLOGY

3. Task 1: Productions and work you have completed that have required
the use of digital technology
Think about all of the productions you’ve completed – look at the list
below and add in any other productions that you have completed that
required you to use digital technology
 Swede ??
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 AS Foundation portfolio -research and planning blog
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 Advanced portfolio Main Task
 A2 blog
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 Website
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 Evaluation
DIGITAL TECHNOLOGY –EXAMPLES
WHEN AND HOW YOU USED DIGITAL TECHNOLOGY

4. THE IMPACT OF THE DIGITAL TECHNOLOGY YOU
USED
Task 2: Which technology did you use for each production
and how did it impact on your final outcomes?
 Before you start, choose 5 productions from your list
 Write each one into your book but leave at least 5 lines
(maybe more) between each one
 Next, write down an example of a technology you used to
complete this production in your book next to the
production in which you used it.
 Now – think of an EXAMPLE of HOW you used the
technology in your production. Write into your book
briefly describing HOW you used the technology (the
process).
 Finally- say what the EFFECT of using this digital
technology was CREATIVELY. How did using the technology
here help your final product ? Write this into your book

5. THE IMPACT OF THE DIGITAL TECHNOLOGY YOU
USED
Premiere
Pro
We used fade to black
transitions in between
many of the clips. I did
this by selecting the
fade in out icon from the
dissolves folder in video
transitions from the
effects menu. I then
dragged the icon onto
the clip I wanted to fade
out or in. I found this
process very easy to do.
The use of the fades made it seem
like time was passing and helped us
move from scene to scene at a rapid
pace, which added to the tension
and helped the audience understand
that we were building up the
suspense – an idea we borrowed
from the film IT.
EXAMPLE:
AS Film
Opening

6. HOW HAVE YOUR SKILLS IN THE USE
OF DIGITAL TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPED?
Example A
AS A2
Example B
AS A2
add a final comment showing how your skills have developed in that area.
1) Go to a new page and draw a vertical line half-way down the page
2) Show how your digital technology skills have DEVELOPED either by:
a. ordering your choice of projects in chronological order or,
b. ordering your projects by the technology and skills that were developed

7. APPLYING LEARNING
Answer the question below:
How have your skills in the creative use of
digital technologies developed over time?
You can choose to answer the question either chronologically
or comparatively, but you must indicate how your skills have
developed across the course of the two years
You have 30 minutes to answer this question.