Rebecca Klein conducted a personal skills audit to assess her abilities for an upcoming A2 project. She gained experience using filming equipment, editing software like GarageBand and Photoshop, and post-production tools like Final Cut when creating a movie sequence. For the A2 project, she plans to develop these digital skills further and research music videos to inform her work. While her previous creative work followed conventions due to limitations, she believes the A2 project is an opportunity to be more imaginative.

1. Personal Skills Audit Name: Rebecca Klein______________________________________
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 Filming equipment and editing Using the equipment helped Gained familiarity with the
- What software, such as camera’s, when filming the movie equipment and software, so
equipment/software Garage Band, Photoshop, etc. sequence, so that you could shouldn’t require as much help
packages did you use to learn how to film with efficiency. and tutorials if using the same
produce your programs.
production?
Post production Used programs like Garage Using a variety of programs To make a music video, we will
- What software did you Band, Photoshop, Final Cut, helped the film sequence be required to use editing
use to create your etc. to edit our movie become more professional, and programs, and gain a use of
production? sequences, and add sound and flow well, with a variety of knowledge to work with sound
- Discuss specific features titles. scene types and sound. programs, for lining up lip sync
of the software. with the actual song.

2. Research and Planning We researched existing Having a knowledge of existing We will have to research
- What tasks did you successful movies, that where products, both successful and existing music videos, to see
complete when appropriate to our theme, and not, helped when planning the what is already successful with
preparing to film your what appealed to audiences. story, and using variety of cuts the audience, and what to
sequence? like other movies, so things ran avoid.
- How did your planning smoother with some guidance.
help the smooth
progression of your film?
Using conventions of real We analyzed The ring and The This gave us the chance to look Using a variety of genre’s to
media texts Devil’s Rejects, which are two into two different styles, and compare one another helps us
- Which texts did you totally different styles of horrors, decide what worked for each, pick what we should have and
analyse? one being creepy, and one helping us settle on a definitive avoid, giving us more
- Did you take any being more of a thrasher. story, and use various aspects reassurance in our choice of
inspiration from the and styles of their title credits in song and the story behind the
conventions found from our own way. video that we film.
your research?
Creativity Our film wasn’t as creative as This gave us the chance to Due to not having as much
- Were our ideas for your we would have liked it to be, work to stereotypical creative control in making our
portfolio imaginative and unique due to having to change the conventions, while exploring horror film, I think A2 would be
or did you adhere to story and location of our filming, some creative methods. an opportunity to be more
conventions? which caused us to change our creative and explore more
plans. dynamics of filming.