This document summarizes Rebecca Hamilton's skills in digital technology and post-production software from creating her A1 media production. It also outlines how she plans to further develop these skills during her A2 project. Specifically: - She gained experience using cameras, Blogger, GarageBand, Photoshop, and Prezi for her A1 project and aims to improve her camera and editing skills. - Final Cut Pro allowed her to edit but she wants to learn more advanced editing techniques. - Her storyboard provided initial planning but she will create a more detailed one for A2. - Researching other films helped with conventions but she wants stronger analytical skills. - She showed creativity

1. Personal Skills Audit Name: Rebecca Hamilton
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 • Cameras The cameras allowed us to film Developing my camera skills
- What • Blogger our opening sequences to a would include having a better
equipment/software • Garage Band good quality. We were able to idea of the camera and be more
packages did you use to use equipment with the confident using them. To have
• Photoshop
produce your camera’s such as he tripod, this a better understanding of how
production? • Prezi allowed us to record good to used the camera to create
• Slideshare footage and use different different angles and effects. To
camera angles. When using become more confident using
Garage Band we created our Photoshop as this wasn’t my
own sound that would go over main role last year. I didn’t
our opening sequence. We really use the software a lot, so
experimented with lots of the to develop my skills on this is
instruments that were available an aim for A2
on the software. We had a few
issues with the music being
louder than the dialogue on the
recording so we had to change
the dynamics of the soundtrack
we created. We used
Photoshop to enable us to
make a logo for our production
company; we used different
layers to create the final piece.

2. Post production Final Cut The final Cut programme Final Cut I would have to be
- What software did you allowed us to edit the film more confident using the
use to create your sequence together. It gave us different effects and being more
production? options to edit in transitions, to effective in making the edits
- Discuss specific features make the cuts smoother and smoother and look more
of the software. look more professional. We professional.
also used filters to make the
sequence black and white,
which made the film more
suited to a film noir.
Research and Planning Storyboard The storyboard wasn’t overly Although the storyboard helped
- What tasks did you Looked at other films and detailed but it gave us a few I think that in A2, planning
complete when gained inspiration from them ideas before we went to film of certain camera shots and doing
preparing to film your what camera angles we would a more detailed storyboard will
sequence? use and how we would set the give a clearer idea of what we
- How did your planning scene up. We found that can use when filming our music
help the smooth although it helped we changed video.
progression of your film? a lot of things we had planned. I felt that watching the film
When we looked at other films sequences really helped us
we mainly focused on the develop our production, so I
camera angles they used and think in A2 I will look at a lot
how that made an audience more examples of music videos
member feel. We thought we to get a real idea of what are
could take inspiration from this conventions of certain genres.
and use some in our own Also what camera angles work
sequence. better than others.
Using conventions of real We looked at opening Having watched several In A2 I think that my analytical

3. media texts sequences of different film sequences already, it skills will have improved so I
- Which texts did you noir’s to get a more detailed influenced our production quite can be more efficient and pick
analyse? idea of the conventions of a film a lot as we took used a few of out details that will help with my
- Did you take any noir and also how professional the conventions. It also gave us production. However I would
inspiration from the films have used camera, mise more of an idea as to how our like my skills to be a bit more
conventions found from en scene etc to create their storyline would go. I would say developed and to be confident
your research? production. The main the sequences we analysed in analysing things
inspiration we took was the use influenced how we approached independently.
of black and white and smoke. the production. We had a lot of
We found these were the more ideas that stemmed originally
common conventions. from the sequences we saw.
Creativity I think our ideas combined I think the creativity of the group I think that the creativity in
- were our ideas for your creativity and conventions. We helped in the making of the film terms of the storyline was good
portfolio imaginative and unique had to make sure the audience opening sequence a lot, however in A2 I would like to
or did you adhere to knew the film was a film noir, so because if you didn’t have an develop my creativity while
conventions? the conventions such as; imaginative story an audience using a camera. I felt that the
detective, femme fatale etc wouldn’t be interested. Also I opening sequence we stuck to
were present in our production. felt that sticking to the using the same camera angles
However in the sequences we conventions meant that we a lot, which felt repetitive. This
watched I didn’t see a storyline were being true to the genre is something I hope to work on
that was similar to ours, so this and the audience could in A2 .
is where I think that our understand what the genre
creativity came into play. was.
Making the film sequence quite
original and creative in terms of
the storyline.