Final Skills Audit

AS Media Production

Technical Skills Audit Moving Image

Name:       Josh Leary        Tutor group:      1.05            Date:                   12/4/11

Filming Pre-production and production skills

Which of the following skills have you undertook before entering this course:

Skill	Yes	No	Comments if yes – where have you completed this skills and to what level
Storyboarding	X		I have produced numerous storyboards for the different adverts I have shot during the course.
Scriptwriting	X		I produced a script for the final social advert I shot on the course.
Scheduling	X		I produced a schedule detailing how and when I would carry out the tasks in Unit 3 of the course.
Contingency planning	X		I produced a contingency plan outlining the possible problems that could occur in Unit 3 and how I could fix these problems.
Shooting log execution	X		I shot several films for with both the Canon XM2 Mini-DV and the Panasonic HD SD60 throughout the course, including a shot lengths experiment, narration advert and social advert. I logged my social advert production in a blog.

Editing Skills

Skill	Yes	No	Comments if yes – where have you completed this skills and to what level
Digitising footage	X		I transferred raw footage from both a mini-DV tape to a computer via capturing and a min-SD card to a computer via log and transfer.
Digitising footage  using timelines	X		I dragged and dropped footage that I’d transferred onto the timeline, ready for sequencing.
Sequencing footage	X		I sequenced footage in the timeline for each film I produced, ensuring that the film transitioned from shot to shot smoothly.
Using transitions	X		I used transitions such as a ‘ fade to black’ to give connotations of time passing in a film and ‘crossfade’ to give a dreamy feel to a sequence.
Using effects	X		I used effects such as ‘colour correction’ to make sure that shots in my social advert matched when they were filmed in different lights.
Adding titles	X		I added text slogans that I’d created in Photoshop in final cut express.
Using multiple video channels	X		I used separate video channels to have more control over post-production editing in my work.
Opacity control on channels		X
Adding sound	X		I added non-diegetic sound to my social advert. It was a song called ‘October 29’ by Vio/Mire.
Using key frames to control sound and image	X		I used this feature to animate stock footage in an experiment within a practical lesson.
Beat matching sound and video	X		I matched a video track to the song ‘Bad Kids’ by Black Lips in a tutorial on beat matching and advanced editing.
Speed Control	X		I controlled the speed of my editing pace to convey meaning within my social advert.

Production Equipment Skills

Which of the following camera features and equipment have you used before?

Feature	Yes	No	Tracking Comments
Tripod	X		I used a tripod to prevent camera shake and achieve a successful panned shot in my social advert.
Track	X		I used a manual tracking shot in my narration advert.
Crane		X
Camera Microphone	X		I used the camera microphone to record my narration for my social advert before deleting the video track in Final Cut Express.
Manual focus		X
White balance correction	X		I white balanced the Canon XM2 Mini-DV camera before shooting at the start of the course.
External lighting		X
Colour Bars	X		I recorded colour bars between footage for easier editing with the Canon XM2 Mini-DV at the start of the course.