Ellie Brown completed a personal skills audit to assess her abilities for an upcoming A2 project. She identified several digital technologies, post-production software, research and planning tasks, and conventions from analyzed media texts that contributed to her previous production. These included using a camera, tripod, Photoshop and Final Cut to film sequences and create polished edits. For her new project, she plans to record different camera angles, use editing software more extensively to sync music and video, and analyze other texts for inspiration. Overall, the skills audit helped evaluate Ellie's experience and identify areas for further development in her upcoming creative work.

1. Personal Skills Audit Name: Ellie Brown
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 • Camera The use of the tripod helped us The use of the camera will help
- What • Tripod & Track gain different shots and camera us record different scenes and
equipment/software • Photoshop angles such as a tilt and the include different camera angles
packages did you use to track also helped the camera and shots to help improve our
• Final Cut
produce your record the scenes smoothly quality and look more
production? • Garage Band rather than being shaky if it was experienced. The tripod and
hand-held. The use of final cut track will help our clips be
helped the putting together of recorded smoothly. The use of
our film easier to manage and photoshop will help when
the transactions helped improve making our album cover as we
the quality and made it look can remove imperfections with
more professional. Photoshop the spot-healing tool and the
was used to create the logo. It different effects such as surface
was the best software to use as blur to make our faces look
we could start our logo from more soft. Final cut will make it
scratch instead of having to use easier to put our pieces
templates or examples which together and add different
also meant we could be transactions into shots, along
creative and make our logo with being linked with grarage
represent our film genre. band, it will make it much easier
to sync the music with the video
so it looks like we are actually
singing and not just lip-syncing.

2. Post production • Photoshop
- What software did you • Final Cut
use to create your • IMovie
production?
- Discuss specific features
of the software.
Research and Planning • Timetoast Timeline Using the Timeline we could Using another timeline will help
- What tasks did you • Risk Assessment keep track on the tasks we had keep the group updated and
complete when • Analysis to complete and helped us find aware of what has already been
preparing to film your out what we expected to done and what needs to be
• Audience Reserch
sequence? complete within each lesson, done to ensure we have good
- How did your planning • Script giving us goot time-keeping and time-keeping and don’t fall
help the smooth • Call Sheet to prevent us falling back on back. The use of another risk
progression of your film? • Props work. The risk assessment assessment will help us see
• Storyboard helped us figure out what what we need to be aware of
precautions we needed to take and what things can be
with the different pieces of manageable, for example if we
equipment to prevent accidents. use the track in public again we
Creating the analysis of a clip in need to make sure nobody will
the same genre as ours helped fall over it. An analysis will help
give us ideas on what we could us get a deeper look into the
include in our sequence and genre we are looking into so we
give us a more detailed guide in can get an insight to the type of

3. the type of genre and props and things we need to include in our
scenes usually related to Film music video to help it become
Noir. Doing the audience successful. Audience research
research meant we could find will
what the audiences liked,
disliked and expected from the
genre so we could add into our
sequence that would make
them approve of it. The script
made it easier for us to
remember our lines and make
the recording run faster and
smoother, it also helped our
group look more professional
having our own script typed up.
The call sheet showed us what
we expected to do outside of
college hours during our
recording time so we could be
prepared and knew who was in
charge of doing what. The
storyboard was a great help as
it made it easier for us to know
what we were videoing and
what types of scenes there
would be and shown what
needed to be recorded which
also linked to props, script and
risk assessment

4. Using conventions of real • Sunset Blvd Watching a variety of opening In our music video we can
media texts • Taxi Driver sequences helped us get an analyse different types of text
- Which texts did you • Momento insight into the type of ideas for our opening sequence, for
analyse? included in opening sequences, example the introduction of
- Did you take any such as the tilt angle at the characters in Katy Perry-Last
inspiration from the beginning of Sunset Blvd which Friday Night.
conventions found from we then used for the first
your research? camera angle for the creation of
our opening sequence.
Creativity - Final Cut. The use of Final cut meant we I will consider the type of
- were our ideas for your Tripod. could edit the speed and motion costumes that would go well
portfolio imaginative and unique Cuebase. of some of our scenes such as with our song, its genre,
or did you adhere to Movie Maker. where Emily fell down. It also narrative, scenery and the story
conventions? Photoshop helped to show the date of our behind it. On scenes where the
genre by changing the full song becomes built up I will use
movie sequence into black and more camera angles to
white. Photoshop was used to emphasise the change in speed
ceate our logo. Movie maker and build up to the chorus. I will
helped us cut out certain use Final Cut to put the video
scenes and make our and song in sync so it doesnt
soundtrack blend in well with look like we are lip syncing and
each scene. Cubase was used to make edits such as putting
to create our soundtrack. The certain scenes into slow motion
tripod was used to keep the or in black and white. The use
camera still and prevent any of photoshop will help with the
scenes from being jumpy and creation of our digipack. We will

5. hard to see. use the tripos to keep the
scenes still. Cubase doesnt
really need to be used for this
project as we already have our
soundtrack however it could be
used if we wanted to edit it and
put different instruments in at
different points of the song.