Skills Audit Liam Pearson
- 1. Personal Skills Audit Name:_______________________________________ 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? • Photoshop editing • Camera • Tripod • Bamboo Touch Pad The camera equipment made the product seem more realistic and gave it a more professional feel; photoshop aided me with the production of story boards and posters. Using new special focus cameras will improve my production and rage of abilities. Also the knowledge learned in AS, such as camera angles and types of shots, will aid me within the filming stage. Post production - What software did you use to create your production? - Discuss specific features of the software. Final cut editing skills. I Movie Word Microsoft Outlook. Final cut had a very simple and quick method of cutting footage. Made the production of my product quicker and appear more professional. Microsoft Word was very useful, most of my documents where produced on word and shifted into my Wix website. I will try and find more software and advance my skills with them, also, as I have had more time with the software I will be more suited to using it
- 2. 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? The use of planning, especially within the storyboard, made the shooting days quicker and smoother; also the ability to view other products on the market gave us some inspiration. The viewing of Noir cinema, such as M and The Big Combo helped give us an idea for the tone of our film. A lot of research into influential music videos as well as the methods used to create them will advance any ideas. Using conventions of real media texts - Which texts did you analyse? - Did you take any inspiration from the conventions found from your research? I tried to learn about the conventions within noir so it allowed me to use them in my own work. I analysed “The Big Sleep” and “Seven” – both being noir but one being neo noir gave me scope for how to make a noir feel modern. They contributed allot, most of the shots seemed like a copy from classic noir. Low angles and long shadows stretching across walls. I will try to get allot more analysis into other related products, this shall allow me to get more understanding of the conventions. Creativity - were your ideas for your portfolio imaginative and unique or did you adhere to conventions? For my video we used lots of conventions, we used them as we were creating a Neo-Noir and only in adhering to these conventions could we portray a clear demonstration of the genre. The viewing of classic noir and knowing the conventions of the genre really helped in creating our video. We used silhouettes and darkly light alleyways, shadows and corrupt police work. I will use the skills I have picked up in AS and attempt to find the conventions in music videos, as to if I adhere to them or not is undecided