The document discusses how digital technologies helped the author develop creative skills for their preliminary task and advanced production. Some key ways digital technologies helped included: 1) Allowing the use of individual and combined filming techniques to construct meaning in their creative piece. 2) Helping appreciate how to engage and target audiences. 3) Facilitating research and planning to efficiently access creative resources and findings. 4) Providing means to reproduce, develop, and challenge conventions in their creative knowledge and production.