The document is a personal skills audit for Rhys Stevens that outlines the skills he acquired and how he used them and plans to develop them for an A2 project. It discusses Rhys' skills in digital technology like Adobe Premiere Pro and Photoshop that he used to produce a high quality final product. It also outlines his experience with post-production software like Premiere Pro and how that experience allowed him to efficiently create and receive feedback on his production. Finally, it discusses Rhys' research and planning skills like storyboarding and shot listing that helped his production run smoothly, as well as his analysis of horror film conventions that helped ensure his opening sequence fit the genre.

1. Personal Skills Audit Name: Rhys Stevens
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 • Adobe Premiere Pro Using these skills throughout I will build on these existing
- What • Photoshop/Fireworks the production of my final AS skills to create a higher
equipment/software • Garageband media product allowed me to quality/more refined final
packages did you use to produce a very high quality product.
• Cameras: Canon SX20
produce your production. All of these abilities
IS / Canon 550D/Rebel
production? combined, as practiced by
T2i
myself, allowed me to construct
• Dolly track a highly graded final product.
• Prezi
• Slideshare
• Blogger
Post production Having previous experience in Because I had prior experience I will try to use a lot more
- What software did you editing, I find it easier to use in video editing, this allowed me complex editing techniques. I
use to create your Premiere Pro rather than the to create my final product a lot will also try to use more special
production? standard Final Cut. Although I faster and which helped me get effects. I would also like to try
- Discuss specific features did develop my skills in feed back quicker and make and be more adventurous with
of the software. garageband when creating the changes if necessary. It also my sound design. This will allow
products soundtrack. meant I could be more creative me to achieve a higher grade in
with my editing style and gave my coursework
me more time to focus on the
sound and music of the video.

2. Research and Planning During the planning of my These skills helped my I will make all of my planning
- What tasks did you production I learned how to production run as smoothly as more detailed so that everyone
complete when correctly storyboard a possible and made sure I was involved in the project
preparing to film your sequence, how to produce a organized and that I knew what understands and can follow all
sequence? call sheet, risk assessment and I was doing when it came to of the planning suitably.
- How did your planning shot list. I also learned a lot filming and editing.
help the smooth about the different sub genres
progression of your film? of horror films and analyse what
makes a film successful.
Using conventions of real I took inspiration from the most They helped me understand I will study and analyse more
media texts popular zombie apocalypse what I need to include to make media texts of the same genre
- Which texts did you films such as, Dawn of the sure that my opening sequence so as to better my
analyse? Dead and Zombieland. I fit the genre and sub-genre I understanding of what I need to
- Did you take any analysed what made them was aiming for. They also gave incorporate in my music video.
inspiration from the successful and tried to me some ideas on what I could This will help my planning and
conventions found from implement their techniques in use in my own production to production run smoother as I
your research? my production. make it more successful. will know the basics of what I
have to do.
Creativity I tried to include both unique This helped me build on I will try to make my work as
- were our ideas for your and imaginative ideas in my existing conventions and make creative as possible, using
portfolio imaginative and unique and standard conventions in my them more my own. unique styles but still
or did you adhere to portfolio so as to produce the maintaining the standard codes
conventions? best standard of work I could. and conventions of the genre.