UNIT G325: 1A ) : SKILLS DEVELOPMENT

UNIT G325: 1A ) : SKILLS DEVELOPMENT
Make detailed notes on the skills you had at the end of the AS year – use all the technical vocabulary that you can:

With this piece of equipment I am able to record but change the effect to suit the mood of the piece, e.g. if filming at night putting it on night vision can create the right effect.
Edit to enhance the non digetic and non digetic. So putting a voiceover on the footage or
Keeping the original sound but just emphasising specific moments

In final cut express I have learnt how to capture the footage, in this I found out that you can play back your footage using the 'space bar' for play. Also using the 'J', 'K', 'L' for fast forwarding etc. This is useful as you have two screens of footage, which makes editing simple. I also learnt how to use the time bar at the bottom measured in seconds, this for when putting in audio tracks and so you can see how long a frame is at a time. Organising work is made simple as just clicking on a drop down menu and creating a bin makes work more organized. This makes you clips easy to get to, especially if you label them like '01' instead on '1' so they go in order.

I used a digital camera to capture stills of the project to help pre production. In this I can change the setting to create the right atmosphere, e.g. balck and white and sepia. The pros about the software and the hardware is that It was advanced so it help us go further with our projects however as it was all new it took a while to get to grips with it all, especially final cut express.

I wasn’t as creative when using the software but again that was partly due to the new software. But in the actual filming I think was creative in contributing to what shots we used and our location. I used mainly the Internet to watch films, which is a very useful resource however I would improve this, by using books or magazines because even though the internet is useful a lot of it can be incorrect. My blog was organised and I printed of hard copies as well which helped organise my folder, however when I went to revisit my AS blog my labels weren’t always correct which made me lose time. I didn’t use my outube account to its full purpose as I only watched clips but never uploaded mine. I think if I uploaded them it would help me get constructive feed back.

In editing I organised it by keeping it tidy by the bins in Final Cut Express and also keeping a back up on a memory stick. However we should had more time in editing outside of class.
The techniques we used were fades, ellipse, voiceover, pan shots, cut of black in white to a piece of music, black and white effect.

For my evaluation I felt went well however I would of added more visual effects with my voice over.
Its not possible to create a entire original media text as you are always getting idea from the environment around you which is obviously influenced from the media. Plus looking at films etc you get ideas from there also.We just followed the conventions of a typical thriller so that the audience could easily identify what type of genre it was.