This document is a skills audit that Hannah Dickinson completed to assess her skills for her A2 project. It outlines the digital technology, post-production, research and planning, and creative skills she acquired from her previous film project. These include using a jib camera, editing software like GarageBand and Photoshop, researching film genres, and developing unique yet conventional storylines. Hannah reflects on how these skills will transfer to her A2 project, such as using editing, research, and creativity skills for a music video.

1. Personal Skills Audit Name:___Hannah Dickinson
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 In class we acquired the skill to For our final piece we took the The skill of using the jib will be
- What set up the jib and we practiced jib to the Historic quay and took transferable for A2 as we could
equipment/software using the jib in the classroom more varied shots such as up decide to se it in our project which
packages did you use to so we were confident in setting height or a sweeping shot. is a music video and would be
produce your it up ourselves. ideal to use a very wide range of
production? shots.
Post production Garage band In the editing of the video we These skills are transferable as
- What software did you Live type used a lot of these programs the sound syncing will be very
use to create your Photoshop and we decided that for the useful in the music video. The live
production? Final cut soundtrack we could use type skills could also be used in
- Discuss specific features garage band, which has a vast a2 as in a music video titles could
of the software. choice of instruments to, chose be needed. Photoshop skills
from. For the titles of the project could be used at a2 as we do the
we chose to use live type, digipack for the coursework.
which had lots of different fonts
to choose from and also
different animations in which to
present it in our video.
Photoshop was used to create

2. the logos for the production
companies used to make the
video conventional. Final cut
was the software we used to
actually produce the video and
edit all of the video together
and sync in the sounds and
voiceovers.
Research and Planning Blogger We researched into the typical These skills are transferable to A2
- What tasks did you Powerpoint conventions of a film noir. We as we can research into music
complete when Prezi then looked into various things videos and the background to the
preparing to film your Time toast timeline such as mise en scene and genre. The skills for creating
sequence? Internet hairstyles of the time in which prezi’s and PowerPoint will be
- How did your planning would set our video. To help the transferable when we go into the
help the smooth filming go smoothly we created production side of the
progression of your film? shot lists, which showed us coursework.
exactly which shots needed to
be filmed at the location, and
which order we would do them
in. We also created power
points, which showed our
understanding of the genre of
film noir, and also we produced
a prezi which showed the
research into the background of

3. film noir. We also had to create
a prezi on a film from the film
noir genre of our choice.
Using conventions of real Black Daliah These were the movies from These skills will be transferable to
media texts Taxi driver the film noir genre that we A2 when we analyze music
- Which texts did you Kiss me Deadly chose to analyze and create the videos from different genres, the
analyse? Sunset Boulevard prezi’s and PowerPoint’s for. skill to look for different
- Did you take any When analyzing these we conventions can also be
inspiration from the looked for the typical transferable to this years
conventions found from conventions, which appeared in coursework.
your research? them all we also looked for
different things, which would
make our video look for realistic
such as titles.
Creativity For our opening sequence we In sticking to the conventions These skills were transferable to
- were our ideas for your were imaginative and unique in and also being creative we A2 as with the coursework we
portfolio imaginative and unique creating our own storyline but in produced our own script, which have to be creative in what we
or did you adhere to the way we created the was creative, and then to be want to do and also adhere to
conventions? storyline we did adhere to the conventional we used the script typical conventions of the music
typical conventions for example as a voiceover, which was video.
we used some of the conventional to the genre.
stereotypical characters such
as a sleazy detective and a
femme fetale.