When i first started the course in yar 12, i'd had no previous experience with filming or editing, or even photoshop etc. At the beginning of AS, we were asked to create 2 prelim tasks, one being a magazine cover, and the other we were asked to film a scene and then edit it. From both of these prelim tasks i was able to gain basic skills and then use what i learnt in order to help create my practical product, which was a music magazine front cover, contents and double page spread, that i created on photoshop. The basic skills that we learnt for the prelim i was able to put to use throughout the course, including the tasks i had to do in A2.
The tools that i most used in AS were the lasso and blur tool, using these together enabled me to cut my artist out of the background image and place them wherever i needed to, the blur tool i used to create a focus on the artist, and majority of them time when used correctly the images always looked a lot better. At the beginning of the course when we were asked to film a two minute scene, and then edit it after, i'd had no experience in using any of the equipment needed, such as how to use the tripod and even how to hold a camera properly. The post production stage of AS was quite difficult, because we could choose or own genre, and style etc. of the magazine, there were no boundaries, so we had the chance to choose our own colour scheme, fonts, style of image, our own artist etc. the fact that we made it from scratch shows that a certain level of creativity and imagination went into the designing of the pages. Luckily we had to hand in a draft of what we wanted our magazine to look like, and were then given feedback and a grade, this gave us the chance to edit our magazine and to try and make it look the best that it possibly could.
Post production at A2 was alot harder than at AS, as we had to make a music video, with a song of our choice and organise everything a normal crew would have to in order to create a music video. This included everything from photoshoots, set/prop lists, to location shots, when we were meeting with our artist, schedules and storyboards etc. this was quite stressful as we had never had to do any of this before and was alot of work for the short amount of time that we had to do it in, the editing process was quite hard, for the draft, we used Adobe Premier, which has quite a complicated program, and we had some issues regarding the resolution of the camera- because the resolution was so high, it took up alot of memory and we had issues transferring the images and footage over to my desktop at school. For the final draft, we used iMovie as Emma was bought a MacBook Pro for her birthday, this was alot easier and simpler to use than Premier.
The progression i made from the preliminary task at AS to the final product at A2 was huge. I had picked up only basic skills from the prelim task and because it was just a prelim task, i didn't think it was necessary to make much of an effort, but when it came to editing the final product at A2, it took me quite a while to get used to and to apply the tools that we had written down to use from the story board into the music video. We had nearly 200 more shots at A2 than we did at AS so the progression just from the number of shots shows how difficult it was to edit a video and get the artist to say things in the right timing, and to get it all to sync together.
My photoshop progression from AS to A2 wasn't that different, though it was from the prelim task at the start of the course to the final ancilliary products i had to make at A2. I think once you learn the basic skills of photoshop, unless you play around with the other tools to see what they can do, it is a hard program to use if you don't know how, but considering how much i used it at AS my skills were pretty standard for what i needed to create, at A2 we had to create two ancilliary products, a digipack and a poster advertising the artist, though they were different products to create, i still found myself using the same tools as i have done throughout the whole of the course.
I think my knowledge of digital technology has grown over the course and i am alot more comfortable with using the programs, the knowledge i have of the programs has allowed me to be as creative as possible when it comes to creating my final products and i feel that i have been able to apply as much creativity and knowledge as possible.
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