This document is a personal skills audit for Danial Kennedy that outlines the digital technology, post-production software, and research/planning skills they used to create a music video production. It describes using a Sony camera to film, a Mac for editing/uploading videos, and software like Photoshop, Final Cut, Prezi, and Blogger. Specific skills mentioned include using tools in Photoshop and creating a storyboard. The audit also discusses how these skills contributed to the production and how Danial plans to further develop the skills for future projects.

1. Personal Skills Audit Name: Danial Kennedy

2. 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 I used a Sony handy cam to film my The skills I used with the camera To use the camera much more often so I
- What equipment/software practice music video and my title contributed to the creation of the can develop my camera skills even further
packages did you use to produce sequence. sequence. so we can use much more advanced
your production? camera skills on the sequence.
I used a mac to upload our videos and The skills I learned on the mac helped me
also to edit them and to do other to do many things, such as editing and I can also improve my editing skills so we
activities this was the first time that I had doing pre production tasks. can make our sequence look more
ever used a mac is as I only used window professional.
computers.
Post production I used many types of software such as The skills I used on Photoshop helped I can develop my skills in Final cut
- What software did you use to final cut and Photoshop. create things such as posters and significantly so I can get more
create your production? mood boards to help give us ideas for involved with the editing side of
- Discuss specific features of Specific features I used in photo shop our sequence project.
the software. were things such as the pixilation tool
and magnetic lasso tool. The use of final cut was pivotal in our I can use final cut more frequently so
production as without it we wouldn’t we can improve the quality of our
However I did not particularly use be able to edit and complete our sequence.
Final Cut, as I was not the main editor sequence
of the group.
I also used blogger frequently to show
my progress through the production Blogger was useful in the production
stages. of the sequence as it helped us track I could make my blog look more
the progress of the production organized and more appealing to the
I also used Prezi this was used to help eye which will make it much easier for
create presentations for our Prezi was useful in our production as the marker to find specific things and
evaluation questions after filming our it made presenting our work such as more atheistically pleasing.
sequences. our evaluation questions look more
professional I could use different types of prezis
I also used slide share to convert my instead of a blank one to make it look
documents so that they could be more unique and much more
shown on my blog imaginative with my ideas.
Research and Planning We did many tasks when preparing to The storyboard was useful in the We can improve our storyboard for
- What tasks did you complete film our sequence such as production of the sequence as it gave our music video by making longer and
when preparing to film your storyboards to assess how our film the group a clear idea what shots and adding more description to exactly
sequence? sequence would pan out. angles will be using, the location of what we will be doing and what
- How did your planning help the shots and the mise en scene. camera angles/shots we will be using.
the smooth progression of This storyboard helped smooth
your film? progression through filming, as we
would know what shots we would be
doing, camera angles, Mise en scene
etc.