Reflecting back on the AS year - Technical Skills

Before I started the AS year I had no skills in media and no knowledge about what was to come from the media course such as dealing with the programmes and technology involved in it. But as a quick learner, I developed many technical skills on the way during the production of my thriller film over the course of the AS year. I believe the skills and knowledge I have gained from last year will help me a lot with this years project.

I developed my skills on using the camera and getting use to all of its functions appropriately for the right purpose. These functions include turning the camera on/off, zooming in/out, focusing the camera and so on. I managed to try out the camera on a preliminary task that was set so that we got use to the camera. During the task I learnt how to function the camera properly along with using it on the tripod which was used to keep the camera still and also used to track, pan and tilt. So for the final production of the thriller movie, handling the camera was an ease!

The 3 main technical skills I developed were:

Film editing - by using a programme called Final Cut Pro where we created our final thriller movie. This programme allowed me to import all of the recorded footage, sounds and typography for our thriller so that we can edit it towards how we wanted the outcome to be. The skills I gained from this process included moving clips into place, slicing clips, removing sounds and adding effects.

Sound editing - which was mainly created from Soundtrack Pro. The programme provided a whole range of different sounds for the users different needs. We created a background music for our thriller to add tension and suspense to have a bigger impact on the audience.

Typography editing - where we created our text on Livetype Pro which later was used for our final thriller. This programme allowed us to create text which were needed to show credits for our thriller. It gave us a whole range of fonts, along with being able to download our own fonts, so we could have that special and unique look on our movie.