Personal Skills Audit Name:____Joe TIndale___________________________________

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?

PhotoshopLive TypeGarage bandFinal cutSony handy cam

The use of Photoshop allowed us to create the production logo for our final product and by using live type we were able to create the opening titles. We were able to create the music for the product and we were able to edit the final product by using Final Cut. The camera was used for the filming of the product.

These skills could benefit me as I need to use Photoshop to create the artwork for my digipak and I would need to use final cut so that I could sync the audio with video in the creation of the final video.

Post production- What software did you

use to create your production?

- Discuss specific features of the software.

Photoshop Live TypeGarage BandFinal Cut

These skills contributed as they allowed us to create the likes of our opening credits and production logo before we needed to edit the final production.

I think these skills will benefit me as I am required to create a logo for a music production company and I need to be able to edit.

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?

Script writing.Researching genre and conventionResearch of distribution of our chosen genre

These benefitted us as we were able to identify different conventions within our chosen genre and so we could integrate them within our final production.

These skills would be required as I could identify different conventions within videos related to my chosen music genre and place them within my own production.

Using conventions of real media texts

- Which texts did you analyse?

- Did you take any inspiration from the conventions found from your research?

La confidential. This benefitted us as were meant to create a noir film style production and we were able to gather ideas and conventions from this that we could use within our own work.

I think that these skills could benefit me as I would need to identify common conventions within music videos f my selected genre.

Creativity - were our ideas for your portfolio imaginative and unique or did you adhere to conventions?

Many of the ideas that we used were creative in the sense that we were able to subvert some conventions such as the female be the enemy in our production however we did adhere to some.

I think that this would benefit me as I would be able to use more creativity as well as adhere to some genre conventions related to my choice in music genre.