Final skills audit

AS Media Production: Final Skills Audit Print Production

 

Name: Jack Toward                     Tutor group: 1.19                Date:23/04/13

 

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		Yes I used this skill during my photo shoot for my magazine project
Shutter Speed	X		I used this skill to take pictures of my model running and jumping, capturing them in midair.
Aperture control	X		Used this when we were taking pictures of a bottle with different depth of field.
ISO Control		X
A tripod	X		I have used this in a different lesson which is Film Studies when we were recording a short film
External flash	X		I used this when we were taking pictures of a model drawing pictures with torches in the dark
Self timer facility		X
Light meter		X
Composition grids		X

 

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		When adding the masthead and subtitles to Front page and DPS
Filters	X		I used these when I was editing my pictures from my photoshoot
Brushes	X		Installed brushes for the CD cover I created
Layers	X		Moving this around when creating my front page
Opacity control	X		Changing the opacity of images on my front page.
Shape creation	X		I have created a price tag for my front page with creating a shape.
Brightness and contrast control	X		Changing the brightness and contrast of the main image of my front page
Gradients	X		Used this when I was editing my the image for my double page spread.
Load selection features		X
Feathering	X		Again I used this when I was editing the image that was goin to be the background for my DPS
Colour curves adjustment		X
Resolution setting control	X		I used this when I wanted to lower the resolution of one of my chosen images or make it higher
Magnetic lasso, polygon lasso tool		X
Cropping tool	X		When I was editing the image for my DPS I had to crop it so it would fit perfectly on one side of the page.
Clone tool	X		When I Wanted to use the same shape that I had already done, I would just clone it and edit it a bit to make it different.
Retouch tool	X		I used this tool when I was getting rid of impurities on the models face.
Other skills

 

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
Have you ever used In design ever before?	X		I have used InDesign once in the past when I was creating a practice DPS
Margin and column guide creation	X		When marking out where I wanted my columns to be
Inserting an image ID	X		I saved an image in my documents and went to File and place to save any unnecessary trouble
Resizing images in ID	X		When I wanted to resize an image in InDesign i used this so it would fit better on the page and me more effective
Text manipulation – resizing, rotation	X		I used this when creating my breakout box I resized the text a few times and rotated it to give it a 3D effect.
Text manipulation – controlling kerning and leading		X
Text flow creation	X		I used this when I wanted to carry a piece of text to the next page to keep the article going
Using transparent imagery in ID		X
Shape/line creation In design	X		I created some lines on my DPS just to help separate the columns and make it easier to read.
Exporting to PDF from In-design	X		When I completed to my product I had to do this so I could upload it.
Text Wrap	X		I used this tool when I wanted to wrap text around an image which in this case was the image which was involved with my background.
Other Skills

 

 

 

Number of new skills achieved: 15