1. UNIT G325: 1A ) : SKILLS DEVELOPMENT
Make detailed notes on the skills you had at the end of the AS year – use all the technical
vocabulary that you can:
Digital Technology
What can you do with a digital video camera?
What sound recording techniques do you have?
What skills did you develop using Final Cut?
Did you use a digital camera (photographic)….
What skills do you have?
What were the good and bad things about the software and hardware at AS?
Creativity
How creative were you at AS?Consider camera framing, lighting, narrative ideas,
planning the brief, location choice, stylistic concept prior to editing?
Originality?
Research and Planning
What techniques did you use? Primary research (watching films etc) and Secondary
research (books? Library? Internet search?, audience figures where? Institutional
research?)
What would you improve?
How did you use Internet? Blog? You tube channel? …. How improve this? Well organized?
Post-Production
How did you organize your editing?
What techniques did you use? Be specific about precise SFX, transitions, sound bridges,
graphics....
What about post-production for your evaluation? What might you improve?
Using conventions from real media texts
It is impossible to create an entirely original media text.
What conventions did you follow? Did you subvert any conventions?
How did you create meaning for the audience? Through film language and editing?