1. Personal Skills Audit
Name: Chantelle Short
Skills acquired
How did these skills
contribute to the creation of
your product?
Digital technology
- What
equipment/software
packages did you use to
produce your
production?
Sony camera
Tripod
Post production
- What software did you
use to create your
production?
- Discuss specific features
of the software.
Final cut
The software we used was final
cut and this allowed us to do
various things such as, jump
cuts, slow motion, shot reverse
shots and so on, final cut was a
better option than IMovie as
you have a limited amount of
features to use.
Research and Planning
Research and planning tasks
How will you develop these
skills during the A2 project?
For my A2 piece I will again use
final cut to conclude my music
video.
Planning everything and
2. -
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What tasks did you
complete when
preparing to film your
sequence?
How did your planning
help the smooth
progression of your film?
Using conventions of real
media texts
- Which texts did you
analyze?
- Did you take any
inspiration from the
conventions found from
your research?
Creativity
- were our ideas for your
portfolio imaginative and unique
or did you adhere to
conventions?
consisted of us researching
researching everything we n
genres, looking at location and
taking pictures of where we
would like to film, making a n9
frame on the opening sequence
of a film in our chosen genre,
we also done a full film analysis
in which we had to include:
mise en scene, sound, editing
and camera angles.
For the opening sequence
analysis my group analyzed
many different horror genre
opening sequence, these varied
from The Thing, to The hill have
eyes. Our chosen genre was
horror resulting in us all
analyzing the horror
convention.
We all tried to make our blogs
look unique and different from
each others but still portray the
aspect convention of horror, so
in al our individual tasks we
made it look dark and gloomy to
support the horror convention