Technical Skills I have developed during my AS year..

When it came to reflecting back on my first year in media I realised there was so much I could say as it has been a pretty eventful first year as I have learnt so much. When it came to media technology I thought I knew everything there was that I needed to know, I was wrong there is so much more I need to learn. In this blog I ma going to list and explain some of the skills I have developed through my AS year.

The first thing I learnt was how to use:-

•   Camera; when it came to the camera there was a lot of information to take in as you had to show the teachers that you could use the camera correctly before they would let hire the camera outso you could begin filming your film. We learnt the basic skills when it came to using the camers; how to switch it on and off, how to insert the batterys and memory card, also how to record and how to zoom- we was told it wasnt a good idea to use the zoom button as it wouldnt look right in your film. We also learnt how to put the camera on the tripod and how to play back the footage that we filmed. 

• Film Cut pro; film cut pro is the programme we used to edit our clips and make them into a film. Before we could begin editing our film we would have to import our clips into final cut, once all the clips had been imported we could then begin the editing process. Which took a long time, as we wanted to make sure that our film clips flowed. When it came to final cut pro we also learnt that you could make transitions for your film by using final cut so some of the exmaples of transitions we could have used include fading in and out and dissolves. 

• Sound Track Pro; when it came to deciding what music should go with our film, we had no ideas of where to even begin looking and how would we get the right music to match our film.After deliberating for a few lessons we finally decided to use soundtrack pro. To me soundtrack pro was brillant as it had evrery sound you could imagine and it really made our film have the perfect soundtrack. After deciding what music and sound effects we wanted to use for our film we then had to import into final cut pro and make sure that the music and sound effects flowed with the clips.

• Live Type; this is the programme we used when it came to designing the titles for our film. This was a reallygood programme to use as there was so much choice you could decide from you could have simple titles like plain writing or you could be a little more adventourous and have moving titles. You could also be stylish and have the titles flashing. 

• Handbrake; this is the programme we used to convert our finished film into an mp4. Once our film had been converted into an mp4 we were then able to upload it onto blogger. I must admit i kept forgetting that we had to convert our film into an mp4 before we would be able to upload to blogger, and each time I would have to get a teacher or technican to help me with the process of converting our film into an mp4. But after being shown twice how to convert our film into an mp4 I was able to remember the process and can now do it by myself.

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