Bronte Rose Ainsley completed a personal skills audit to assess her skills for her A2 project. She learned editing skills using Final Cut and Photoshop which helped ensure her film ran smoothly. She acquired skills using camera, crane, tripod and other equipment which enabled her to get professional shots. She researched film noir conventions from movies and used inspiration from them while also being creative and unique. Thorough planning helped the smooth filming process. She will continue developing her skills with new technology and applying conventions and creativity.

1. Personal Skills Audit Name: Bronte Rose Ainsley
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 I learnt editing skills to use Final The editing skills ensured our I will continue to use software
- What Cut and Photoshop. I had to film ran smoothly and made such as Final Cut but will
equipment/software learn how to set up and use the sense, it made it look more hopefully also use new
packages did you use to camera and I learn what professional. The equipment technology to help with this
produce your worked well and what didn’t. I used when filming enabled us years task. Having already had
production? learnt how to use the crane, to get the best shots to help tell some experience from last year
tripod and the Dolly. I used the story. The sound we used I hope the skills I have learnt
Garage Band to edit the music added an extra aspect to will be easily transferable to this
and I used sound effects from portray traditional ‘film noir’ and year and that I will develop
YouTube and converted them helped ‘tell’ the audience how these further through practice
into our film. to feel and when. and learning new and better
things.
Post production I used Final Cut to put the Final Cut was used to do the I may use the same software so
- What software did you whole production together. It full production. Photoshop was I will hopefully develop my
use to create your had a time line so we could used for the logos. Garage understanding further.
production? drop different sounds/clips in Band was used for the
- Discuss specific features where we wanted. We used the soundtrack. LiveType was used
of the software. layers to create a more to make the last title.
professional looking picture.
Garage Band helped me make
the soundtrack, it had different
instruments that you could add
to the bars so you could make it

2. sound exactly how you wanted.
I used LiveType to create the
final title. It had different
background effect options and
different fonts and styles to try
out.
Research and Planning We researched by looking at It enabled us to get straight on I will carry on with thorough
- What tasks did you clips from real film noirs and by with filming and to run through planning so that the actual
complete when getting ideas from the internet the filming process quickly and filming runs without any hicks.
preparing to film your and YouTube eg. Hair styles smoothly.
sequence? and makeup. We then made a
- How did your planning storyboard so we knew the
help the smooth sequence and wrote a script
progression of your film? and shot table so we knew what
was happening when.
Using conventions of real Black Dahlia, Taxi Driver, It gave us the basic ideas to I will continue to look into the
media texts Seven, Laura etc. helped us to build our production on, without genre I am studying so I have
- Which texts did you analyse the conventions of film the research our film wouldn’t full understanding of what I
analyse? noir such as: black and white, have seemed very have to create.
- Did you take any cigarettes, fancy 40s clothing, conventional.
inspiration from the red lipstick, ‘slinky’ music.
conventions found from
your research?
Creativity We stuck to a lot of the film noir It ensured that our production I will continue to be creative so
- were our ideas for your conventions like having the was different to other film noirs all my work is original and

3. portfolio imaginative and unique femme fatale, the flirty and that it stood out and was unique and will gain a good
or did you adhere to detective, the old styled streets interesting to watch. mark.
conventions? and alleys, however we would
sometimes subvert it eg. We
had a female criminal, and also
a female ‘wing woman’ as the
detective’s sidekick.