Personal Skills Audit Name: Amy Wilkins

Skills acquired How did these skills

contribute to the creation of your product?

How will you develop these

skills during the A2 project?

Digital technology - What

equipment/software

packages did you use to produce your

production?

- How to use a camera properly - Final Cut Express - Garageband

- LiveType

They helped create the highest quality opening to a movie that we could do.

Possibly using a higher quality camera, and figuring out how to match lip syncing to the music.

Post production - What software did you

use to create your production?

- Discuss specific features

of the software.

- Final Cut Express - Garageband

- Livetype

They made the editing process as easy as possible.

Possibly try to get better at editing, and using more unusual

editing techniques an transitions.

Research and Planning - What tasks did you

complete when

preparing to film your sequence?

- How did your planning help the smooth progression of your film?

We researched other movie genres, and other movies that were along the same lines as

our film.

We took ideas from other films, such as Se7en and Taken, and worked them into our film.

Possibly try to come up with something unique for my music video.

Using conventions of real media texts

- Which texts did you analyse?

- Did you take any inspiration from the conventions found from

your research?

Se7en opening sequence, Taken ‘kidnap’ scene, Batman

opening scene.

We tried to use the concept from the Se7en opening

sequence.

Creativity

- were our ideas for your portfolio imaginative and unique

or did you adhere to conventions?

Lots of creative thinking and

storyboards used