The document is a personal skills audit for a student named Alice Gibson. It outlines various digital skills she acquired and how she used them to create a final product for her class. It also discusses how she plans to further develop these skills during her A2 project. Specifically, it mentions she learned camera and editing skills using software like Final Cut Express HD. For her class project, she used these skills along with other software like GarageBand and Photoshop. The document also outlines research and planning tasks Alice completed, including analyzing conventions from film texts like Taxi Driver. This analysis helped inform the style and sequencing of her class project. She plans to continue developing her skills and researching conventions for her upcoming A2 coursework.

1. Personal Skills Audit Name:____Alice Gibson___________________________________
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 During class we had to learn For our final piece we decided During A2 we will use the
- What how to set up the jib and attach to take the Jib, a camera and a camera skills, which we have
equipment/software the camera to it so we could tripod to our location. We used already learnt and also learn
packages did you use to use it. We also had to learn to these so we could get a range more with the new cameras.
produce your set up a tripod so we could of shots.
production? make our shots more steady.
Post production We had to learn how to use On each different software we We will definitely use Final Cut
- What software did you Garage band, Live Type, created something for our final Express HD again which will
use to create your Photoshop and Final Cut piece. On Garage Band we help us develop new skills and
production? Express HD because these created the soundtrack, on we may use some of the other
- Discuss specific features were the software’s used to Photoshop we created some software for our coursework
of the software. create our production. logos, on Live Type we created during A2. Our Photoshop skills
the titles and on Final Cut will help us make our digipack
Express HD was where we which is included in the
edited it all together. coursework at A2.

2. Research and Planning The software we used were We had to do a lot of planning
- What tasks did you Time Toast, Prezi, PowerPoint and research into our chosen
complete when and Blogger. genre, which was Film Noir.
preparing to film your The planning and research that
sequence? we did helped a lot with the
- How did your planning progression of our film as we
help the smooth looked into the stereotypical
progression of your film? conventions and used some of
them in our final piece which
made it more like a Film Noir.
Using conventions of real The opening sequences I These opening sequences During our coursework for A2
media texts analysed were Taxi Driver, helped us decide on how to we will look at typical
- Which texts did you Touch Of Evil and Se7en. This present our titles and chose conventions of the genre of
analyse? showed us what a typical Film other conventions in our final music video we chose and
- Did you take any Noir opening sequence looks piece for example we used red maybe use some for our final
inspiration from the like. lipstick and black and white. piece.
conventions found from
your research?
Creativity
- were our ideas for your
portfolio imaginative and unique
or did you adhere to
conventions?