This document outlines XiaoXi Chu's personal skills audit for an A2 media project. It lists the digital technology, post-production software, and research/planning tasks used to create their prior media product. For the A2 project, XiaoXi plans to further develop their skills in using professional camera equipment, expanding research scope, and improving planning/communication with their partner to create a more creative and unique music video.

1. Personal Skills Audit Name: XiaoXi Chu
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 Video Camera The video camera created the The video camera created the
- What Dolly Track basic video of our production. basic video of our production.
equipment/software Tripod We using dolly track, tripod and We using dolly track, tripod and
packages did you use to Jib jib created different camera jib created different camera
produce your angles and shots. angles and shots. By using
production? Prezis and Shlishare we posted
on our blog.
Post production iMovie Final Cut Express HD was the Practice those skills that we
- What software did you Final Cut Express HD program, which brought our have used before, by further
use to create your Garage Band rough cuts together to create using the photographic
production? Live Type the film, using the effects in equipment we could create
- Discuss specific features Video filters to darken our film more different camera shots for
of the software. and enhance our project. our music video. We will use
Garage band created our music, professional camera instead
using a variety of different the video camera we used on
instruments. We used Live Type AS media, to create a more
created the title of our professional production.
production company and studio. Post production

2. Research and Planning The tasks I have done: The 9 camera shots research I will expand the scope of my
- What tasks did you The 9 camera shots of gave me an advance idea of the research to help me understand
complete when ‘CABIN FEVER 2’ camera shots in our media comprehensively of music
preparing to film your Conventions of horror product. By the conventions of video.
sequence? The title sequence of horror, the title sequence, the For the planning part I would
- How did your planning ‘THE DESCENT 2’ audience research and also the like to have more
help the smooth Audience research opening sequence research, I communication with my partner,
progression of your film? Opening sequence of have a previous concept of what discover and planning our
‘THE WARD’ we need to prepare for our music video together so that we
The story board product. The story board helped could be prepared to do our
us to create the previous music video.
camera shots that we would like
to use in our video.
Using conventions of real The conventions of real media Those 3 texts (‘CABIN By watching and analyse a
media texts sequence I have analysed are: FEVER2’, ‘THE DESCENT’ and larger group of music video of
- Which texts did you ‘CABIN FEVER2’ for the ‘THE WARD’) I have done gave the music genre we chose, to
analyse? camera shots me some useful inspiration. For find some good inspiration,
- Did you take ‘THE DESCENT 2’ for example in our media product ideas and also some media
anyinspiration from the the title sequence the light is really low and we use language we need to use for
conventions found from ‘THE WARD’ for the the dark shadow. For the our music video, to design and
your research? opening sequence. location we chose a remote planning our media prodct.
street which the idea comes
from ‘THE WARD’.
Creativity We followed the convention of By followed the conventions that For the music video we goner
- were our ideas for your horror which we haven’t been we created a typical horror add as much novelty idea as
portfolio imaginative and unique creative as we could be. which is not novelty enough to we can which allow our music
or did you adhere to attract audience. video more creative and

3. conventions? outstanding.