- Basic skills on Final Cut Pro; laying down footage and putting them together. Also cutting them up to use in different places and match cutting footage.
- Learned how to add transitions in places such as a fade in or fade out.
- Adding text on Final Cut Pro to create the title sequence for our thrillers
- Prelim - this was the first time I used Final Cut Pro. My technical skills have really developed from then. At the time when we were filming our prelim we just filmed a few seconds of still footage for each shot and put it together. However, we realised that we were supposed to film continuously in order to put all the footage together.
- Used SoundTrack to construct foley sounds to create suspense in the thriller.
- When constructing research in AS it was done mostly with the use of the internet.
- However, in A2, I varied the way I gathered information such as asking a member of HMV for their views and opinions and asking family and friends for their opinions along side conducting internet research.
- Research for A2 was different in a sense that we had something to work with because we were using a song from an existing artist. This provided the foundations of what we needed to research on. However, in AS we had to create our own original thrillers which made research harder as we found it hard to come up with a starting point.
- Planning for our music video was more detailed in comparison to the blogging from the AS year as there was much more material to work with because of influences and inspiration gained from existing artists of the same genre.
- Planning approach differed in comparison to AS as we needed to create a solid story line to follow which we all found quite difficult. However, the different narrative approaches gave us more guidance as to how we could approach this making it easier.
- Even though my blogging lacked consistency, it was an overall success as it clearly showed the journey from research and planning to producing my final piece.
- We planned this differently in a sense that music genres narrow down our choices down making it easier for us to have definite decisions as to where we were going to film and what we needed to film.
- For our thriller in AS the location was a difficult element to decide on because of how big the scope was. We could have filmed literally anywhere, making it harder for us to decide.
- The filming schedule this year helped us more than last year as we were more specific and detailed about every aspect of what we needed and also we were much were organised.
- I have learnt a lot more editing skills such as using base tracks to construct a music video. Also, using markers to mark each beat so I know when it cut when we actually came to editing.
- I experimented with video filters and transitions such as mirror effects, earthquake and kaleidoscope.
- Other skills I have developed includes reversing footage and manipulation of time.
- I also experimented with overlapping footage and changing the opacity of it to show multiple footages at the same time and I also learnt how to create repetition with the same footage to the build up of the chorus.
My skills have developed over the two years of studying for A Level in many areas. I have developed so much technical skills especially with Final Cut Pro and Photoshop as I had zero knowledge with the two programs. However, as well as technical skills I have also developed other every day essential skills such as my social skills. Working with a group for both years enhanced my people skills a lot as we had to share ideas and listen to each others contributions. Also, A Level media has made me very organised in terms of meeting deadlines and planning my time out carefully when doing work as I had other deadlines to meet.
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