This personal skills audit summarizes Claire Walker's skills in digital technology, post-production, research and planning, analyzing real media texts, and creativity. Claire used cameras, Photoshop, Final Cut, and iMovie to produce her work, and plans to further improve her skills with this software. Her planning process included audience research, storyboards, and scripts to help her production progress smoothly. She analyzed real media texts and incorporated conventions into her work. For her next project, Claire aims to challenge conventions and continue developing her skills in filming and progression.

1. Personal Skills Audit
Name: Claire Walker
Skills acquired
How did these skills
contribute to the creation of
your product?
How will you develop these
skills during the A2 project?
Digital technology
- What
equipment/software
packages did you use to
produce your
production?
Cameras
Photoshop
Final cut
IMovie
These skills will help me
produce a piece that looks
professional. This is by the
camera shot being smoothly
shot and this helped editing
look better due to knowledge.
Photoshop has managed to
help us to edit pictures and also
make the final product better.
By further improving my skills o
these software and also the
camera skills used.
Post production
- What software did you
use to create your
production?
- Discuss specific features
of the software.
Final Cut
IMovie
Photoshop
By using these products ,we
gained more experience in
these software, this has help
the product looking more like a
official video.
I will get use to the software
more and more as second year
continues.

2. Research and Planning
- What tasks did you
complete when
preparing to film your
sequence?
- How did your planning
help the smooth
progression of your film?
We did Audience Research,
Storyboards, Recce Shots,
Treatment sheets, Script, Call
Sheets, Booking Equipment,
Animatic, Production Logo.
These skills helped produce a
piece that was well thought out
and also a well put together
piece of video.
Bu future improvements I could
get a better fluency in the
progression in filming.
Using conventions of real
media texts
- Which texts did you
analyse?
- Did you take any
inspiration from the
conventions found from
your research?
9 frame analysis
Deconstruction of titles
Written analysis
These pieces of real media
texts I will be able to uses a
better ways of producing my
work
We can put across our points
easier in this way it will get us
the marks we need
Creativity
- Were our ideas for your
portfolio imaginative and unique
or did you adhere to
conventions?
We used none stereotypical
conventions in our video
because you always see the
females being weaker so we
changed it round to the killer
being a female.
These skills helped us
challenge the media concepts
in Horror films.
These skills can help us rather
than stick to original
conventions.