Throughout creating his advanced portfolio, the student learned new media technologies like Adobe Premiere and Photoshop, and improved his skills in others. He picked up video editing skills in Premiere like splicing clips together, adding effects like black and white, blurring, and slow motion. In Photoshop, he gained experience using effects like brightness and contrast controls. His group also learned how to correctly convert and upload a video to YouTube.

1. A2 Advanced Portfolio Evaluation
How did you use media technologies in the construction and
research, planning and evaluation stages?
Throughout my advanced portfolio, I have used programs on the computer I
have never used before and advanced on my skills on others.
I had never used Adobe Premiere before we created the video but found it
easy to pick up skills along the way working with my group. I learnt to firstly
be able to put clips of film together, edit them such as making it black and
white, blurring and putting parts in slow motion. I am now also able to fade
two different clips together by using effects such as ‘fade to white’ and ‘fade to
black’.
A program I developed more skills on was using Photoshop. I used effects such
as contrasting and brightness controls to get the right texture to my ancillaries
and editing and colouring texts used from dafont.com to look how I wanted.
Our group also learnt how to convert and upload our video on to YouTube
correctly.
Lots of time has also been spent on my eBlogger and slideshare to get
everything uploaded, prepared and neat.