Ellie High completed a personal skills audit to assess her abilities for an upcoming A2 project. She used various digital technologies like cameras, Final Cut, Photoshop, and GarageBand to film and edit an opening sequence for a previous project. Final Cut was particularly useful for piecing footage together. Photoshop allowed her to design a logo. She researched films to understand horror conventions and storyboarded her sequence. While adhering to conventions, her group was still creative. She plans to develop her skills further for the A2 project through more advanced use of software and in-depth research of her chosen genre.

1. Personal Skills Audit Name: Ellie High
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 camera was used to film Use the equipment in more
- What • Final Cut our opening sequence. Using depth to be able to create my
equipment/software • Photoshop effects like blurring out the shot music video. As I wasn’t the
packages did you use to to make it look eary. main editor I feel it would be
• Garage Band
produce your Final Cut was used to piece the best that I develop my skills as
production? • Prezi footage together to create the the editor
• Slideshare opening sequence.
We used Photoshop to create
our logo for the opening
sequence by adding the blood
to the logo to make it fit in with
the conventions of a horror.
Post production • Final Cut Final Cut was used to edit all I feel that I will be using Final
- What software did you the clips of the opening Cut in A2 but will be using this
use to create your sequence together to make at a more advanced level to
production? sure it could be to the best help me create my music video.
- Discuss specific features possible standard.
of the software.

2. Research and Planning • Evaluated films to fit with Watching other opening I must research in depth about
- What tasks did you the convention of the sequences that fitted with the the genre I will choose to make
complete when opening sequence convention of ours helped as it my music video around and find
preparing to film your • Storyboard gave us a detailed look at how out what I must include in the
sequence? others have made their opening video to help it fit into the
- How did your planning sequence and what they have conventions of this genre.
help the smooth used to make it feel like a
progression of your film? horror to the audience.
Also by creating a storyboard
this helped us put together
scenes in the opening
sequence and what was
specifically happening.
Using conventions of real • Watching opening I analyzed the opening By watching more real media
media texts sequence of other films sequence to the film of Cabin texts analyzing them in a lot
- Which texts did you • 9 Frame analysis on Fever: Spring Break more detail can help me and
analyse? “The Ward” my group to come up with more
- Did you take any ideas
inspiration from the
conventions found from
your research?
Creativity Although the groups creativity I feel that by doing this we I feel that because of the task in
- were our ideas for your was used in the opening showed we could combine our A2 our group will need to think

3. portfolio imaginative and unique sequence to give it a different own personal creativity skills a lot more about where we
or did you adhere to feel. I also think we used and conventions of other media make the video and who is in it.
conventions? conventions from other horror texts to create the opening Also the conventions to fit the
movies so that we could make sequence to the way we genre. This will make us
the opening sequence deliver a wanted it. develop our skills from AS.
good reaction to the audience.