This document provides guidance on evaluating one's own progress in skills related to digital media production. It recommends structuring self-evaluation around pre-production, production, and post-production stages and focusing on the use of digital technology, creativity, and incorporation of real media conventions at each stage. Examples are provided of how to break down experiences into paragraphs addressing what was done at different stages to demonstrate growth over time.

1. Progress
Obj – To be able to audit my own skills.
Obj 2 – To understand my progress at
pre/post and production levels.

2. Use of Real Media Conventions
Get out your homework and let’s
compare.
Who finishes last.

3. What is it?
• Use of real media conventions involves
consideration of other texts that you looked at
and how skillfully you were able to weave
their conventions into your work or ways in
which you might have challenged them.

4. Creativity

5. Creativity
• Creativity is the hardest one in many ways because it involves
thinking about what the creative process might mean.
• Wikipedia describes it as "a mental process involving the
discovery of new ideas or concepts, or new associations of the
existing ideas or concepts, fueled by the process of either
conscious or unconscious insight."
• For your projects it might involve considering where ideas
came from, how you worked collaboratively to share ideas,
how you changed things or even how you used tools like the
programs to achieve something imaginative.

6. Recommended Structure
• Intro
• Pre-Prod
• Prod
• Post-Prod
• Conclusion
- Digital Technology
- Creativity
- Use of Real Media Texts

7. Example Broken Down Paragraph
• In our Thriller opening digital technology was vital in
production as we wanted to establish a sense of
mystery about our antagonist …
• Digital technology helped us in this through the editing
of our piece in that …
• This indicates that we were aware of the impact that
effects have on the audiences and …
• In A2 the internet became more of …/We further
developed at A2
• For example …
• We were far more aware of the limitations and …/At A2
we understood

8. Sort out your categories
• Choose three examples for each section for
digital tech.
• Pre-Prod
• Prod
• Post-Prod