Skills Assessment| Planning

Discuss the different technologies we have used the skills we have gained and developed e.g. lighting - getting rid of shadows and dark areas camera canon 7D youtube for research, distribution of film survey monkeys final cut pro software tripods blogger

We have used a vast amount of technology in our media group and have developed a number of skills behind them. Working as a proper professional media group production team we started to have a close eye for many important key aspects in our trailer, and print media. These includes thinking about

• Focuses of shots


• Lighting


• Moving around handing equipment carefully

Use Of The Apple MAC

One of the first technologies we used once we had started our working in groups was The Apple Mac. This was something all of us had to grow familiar with as we were going to be using for the rest of the project to edit, access our blog and manipulate our print media. Skills which we have gained from this are using quick keyboard shortcuts to work faster and more professional as a team. Also we all had to get used to how different Apple Macs were to PCs and the difference between sized screens and layouts of the desktop.

Canon 7D Camera

The Canon 7D camera was use for filming and taking still photographs. Joshua was the only member of the group who was familiar with the camera. With the rest of us we all got used to the properties around the camera and it functions. The Canon 7D was a camera that was different to other cameras whereby the quality was so much clearer whereby everything that may not show up as much on a normal camera would differently show up on the 7D. Skills we al developed as a group whether we were watching it or playing it back was the fact that each an everyone of us had an eye for camera focus, lighting, correct angles and ideal scenery. In our first stages of filming, we hardly paid close attention to that great us a result of bad shots and lighting. Gradually as we filmed more shots we gave each team a role to check lighting, camera focus, ideal scenery and camera shots were done correctly before we filmed. This improved our quality of filming and compressed time avoiding us to continue filming constantly. Another thing we did was do a few test shots before deciding to film properly. This helped use a lot as we were able to see where we went wrong and improve from there.

YouTube



All of us were very familiar with using YouTube to watch and upload videos. One of our project tasks was to actually upload our teaser trailer up in order to get views and comments from a number of people. As YouTube is a worldwide usage, we are likely to get comments from a number of people from all over the world as well as in our area code. This also went under one of our marketing strategies whereby it was one way of using advertising and disturbuting our teaser to the public. As well as uploading our trailer we also made short videos showing our different test shots and meetings we had as a group discussing any changes we made and queries we had to get across to each other as a group. This was very reliable as we could refer back to it as well as taking down notes as those were sometimes misplaced and lost.

Survey Monkeys

Survey monkey is a useful marketing strategy which we used in order find out bit more information about our target market. This was a new way of processing surveys and questionnaires as this it was done and distributed out online. After we had received enough results it was very easy for us to process the results on survey monkey as it was done automatically. Skills which were learnt ....

Blogger

The purpose of blogger was to allow us to post our work onto a blog so that we could keep our work together and provide a simple location for it to be viewed by ourselves, our teacher, and the examiner when the time comes.

Final Cut PRO Software

Tripods

Lights and Lighting

NEEDS TO BE REDONE AS A SPIDER DIAGRAM

EACH TEAM MEMBER MUST CREATE THEIR OWN POST

GIVING IT A TITLE OF SKILLS ASSESSMENT FOLLOWED BY THE AREA THEY ARE ANALYSING