Wednesday, 1 September 2010

AS to A2 Skills Development Work for AML

Year 13:
This work is for the this week. The detailed notes that you make in answer to these questions will be vital for your examination later. I will be talking through this with you in class.

Unit G325: 1A ) : SKILLS DEVELOPMENT

Make detailed notes on the skills you have now, at the end of the AS year – use all the technical vocabulary that you can:

Digital Technology

  • What can you do with a digital video camera?
  • What sound recording techniques do you have?
  • What skills did you develop using Final Cut?
  • Did you use a digial camera (photographic)….
  • What skills do you have?
  • What were the good and bad things about the software and hardware at AS?

Creativity

  • How creative were you at AS?Consider camera framing, lighting, narrative ideas, planning the brief, location choice, stylistic concept prior to editing?
  • Originality?

Research and Planning

  • What techniques did you use? Primary research (watching films etc) and Secondary research (books? Library? Internet search?, audience figures where? Institutional research?)
  • What would you improve?
  • How did you use Internet? Blog? You tube channel? …. How improve this? Well organized?

Post-Production

  • How did you organize your editing?
  • What techniques did you use? Be specific about precise SFX, transitions, sound bridges, graphics....
  • What about post-production for your evaluation? What might you improve?

Using conventions from real media texts

It is impossible to create an entirely original media text.

  • What conventions did you follow? Did you subvert any conventions?
  • How did you create meaning for the audience? Through film language and editing?