Final Skills Audit

AS Media Production: Final Skills Audit Print Production

Name:                Lauren Wilson  Tutor group:     1.25  Date: 28.04.14

Photographic Skills

Which of the following photographic features/equipment have you used on a camera before:

Feature	Yes	No	Comments if yes – where have you completed this skills and to what level
Manual Focus features	X		I developed this skill considerably during all of my photo shoots, particularly in my studio shoot, as the cameras I used were DLSR cameras.
Shutter Speed	X		I developed these skills through our photography experiments with the torches in a dark room. I changed the shutter speed so that it was a lot slower in order to get the effect of a pattern of the torch light. This can be seen on my blog on the 22nd October 2013.
Aperture control	X		I used the aperture control in my photography experiments, using a prop to show the depth of field that changed when changing the aperture settings.
ISO Control	X		I developed this skill in my photography experiments, which can be seen on my blog.
A tripod	X		Although I used a tripod in GCSE Photography, I did not develop my skills with using a tripod.
External flash	X		I used this in the studio shoot, including lighting such as soft boxes.
Self timer facility		X
Light meter		X
Composition grids	X		I used this considerably during my photography, particularly the rule of thirds and the eye line for my studio shoot.

Photoshop Skills

Which of the following features of Photoshop have you used before:

Feature	Yes	No	Comments if yes – where have you completed this skills and to what level
Text control	X		I used this skill when developing the cover of my product, to create the masthead, sell lines and other text.
Filters	X		Although I had used this skill already in GCSE Photography, I did not develop these skills any further during my production.
Brushes	X		Although I had used this skill in GCSE Photography, I did not develop my skill with brushes any further during the production process.
Layers	X		I developed this skill considerably from GCSE Photography, as I used a lot of layers through the editing of my images for my final product, and for the development of my front cover.
Opacity control	X		I used this on my front cover, to make the button sell appear more see through.
Shape creation	X		I used this on my front cover in Photoshop, to create a button sell.
Brightness and contrast control	X		I used this in editing the images for my final product, in order to make the images appear darker and fit the tone of my magazine.
Gradients		X
Load selection features		X
Feathering		X
Colour curves adjustment	X		I used the colour curves adjustment again on the images for my final product, for both my front cover and my DPS.
Resolution setting control	X		I used this when I imported my files from Photoshop to InDesign, in order to maintain the high quality of the images.
Magnetic lasso, polygon lasso tool		X
Cropping tool	X		I used this to resize the final product images for my DPS, and also during my experiments with Photoshop.
Clone tool		X
Retouch tool	X		I experimented with this during my Photoshop experiments, which can be seen on my blog.
Other skills	X		Elliptical marquee tool, spot healing brush tool (seen on my blog), paint bucket tool, sharpen tool, burn tool, dodge tool, hue and saturation, levels.

In Design Skills

Which of the following features of In Design have you used before:

Feature	Yes	No	Comments if yes – where have you completed this skills and to what level
Margin and column guide creation	X		I used this to formal my final product in the beginning stages of production.
Inserting an image ID	X		I inserted images into my final DPS, and also to put my front cover into the InDesign file.
Resizing images in ID	X		I used this so that the images I had inserted into my DPS fit properly, and were well placed.
Text manipulation – resizing, rotation	X		I used this for my headline and kicker, and also the text within my breakout boxes. I also used this for my main body text.
Text manipulation – controlling kerning and leading	X		I experimented with this technique in the body text of my DPS, but did not like how it looked so it did not appear in the final version of my product.
Text flow creation	X		I used this in the main body text of my article, so that it was easy to read throughout the different sections and columns.
Using transparent imagery in ID		X
Shape/line creation In design	X		I used this to create shapes in order to split my body text into determined sections and columns/
Exporting to PDF from In-design	X		I did this when I had finished my final product, in order to hand it in officially.
Other Skills

Number of new skills achieved: 27

(compare with your initial skills assessment): 11.