Skills development pdf
- 1. Friday, 11 November 2016 Skills development It is important to track the progress of my skills development during this course in order to identify areas of improvement from the AS Media Studies coursework compared to the A2 Media Studies coursework skills. I will consider how my skills have improved over these two years. The two areas I will consider is creativity and digital technology. Creativity In order to create the most vibrant product which is unique from other students it is important to research a lot of past documentaries through analysing not only the content and ideologies that are presented in the documentary but also the codes and conventions of the magazine. Last year, through producing a magazine front cover, contents page and double page spread of an article I learnt the important of research and planing in influencing decisions in production in order for my product to best fit my target audience. At the start of the coursework for last year, I looked at Kerrang! and --- magazine in order to understand the basic codes and conventions needed to produce a magazine. This year I will look at more than two examples individually in order to get as much independent knowledge and analysis on the codes and conventions of documentaries. Through the knowledge of these codes and conventions, I can create a documentary which is going to fit in with mainstream ideas but also see if there are any gaps the documentaries that I have analysed. I can see if there is a audience gap or a possible twist on a previous topic in order to create something interesting and unique for my target audience. For example, I think it would be a creative idea if we looked at maybe the stigma of video games and considered the reality of it. Instead of looking at whether violence in video games does have an impact on teenagers and young children, we can see what they personally think of video games Digital Technology Also, the development of skills in relation to digital technology is important to show an improvement of skills in producing media products. This years coursework relies on looking at video footage to pin point down certain aspects which could potentially be included in our real documentary. The use of the edit decision sheet was very useful but before that I did look do a draft of different timings when watching all of the footage to see what I personally found potentially interesting and useful. The use of Premiere has been an interesting experience as at first I found it quite confusing to use in terms of all the different aspects of editing and the different sections of the screen but soon got used 1
- 2. Friday, 11 November 2016 to it. I think it is a very useful software to use and really allows you to focus on a variety of different elements of visual and audio footage so you can change and manipulate exactly how you want the clips to be. At this stage, I certainly have not looked at all the tools but the one I find most helpful at the moment is the audio gain option when you right click the cursor. This will be extremely useful when we come to editing the montages of our vox-pops as I have noticed that many of them have different sound levels. The audio gain option will be a great way to make sure that they are all a consistent level, increasing the clarity and professionalism of our product. I look forward to learning more about Premiere in the weeks to come as well as using InDesign for when we construct our magazine article. 2