AS Media
Production: Final
Skills Audit Print Production
Name:
Alex Ord Tutor
group: Date: 22/04/14
Photographic
Skills
Which of the following
photographic features/equipment have you used on a camera before:
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Feature
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Yes
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No
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Comments if yes – where
have you completed this skills and to what level
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Manual
Focus features
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Yes
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- I took photographs for my unit 1 folder. I also have used this
skill when taking the final photographs for my magazine.
Completed at AS
Level
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Shutter
Speed
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Yes
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- I took pictures of fast moving images (e.g. moving leaves and moving water), which I
uploaded to my blog.
- I took photographs for my art A Level of moving water, and used shutter speed to create the effect I wanted.
Completed at AS Level
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Aperture
control
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No
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ISO
Control
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Yes
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- I took photographs for my magazine.
Completed at AS Level
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A
tripod
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Yes
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- I used a tripod at home to take photographs, and in college when taking my
initial photographs for my blog and also taking my double page spread images
in my final product.
Completed at AS Level
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External
flash
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No
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Self
timer facility
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No
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Light
meter
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Yes
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- I took photographs in photo studio using a light meter so that I got the correct lighting for
my images.
Completed at AS Level
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Composition
grids
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Yes
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- I completed this skill
when using the college camera to take photographs.
Completed at AS Level
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Photoshop
Skills
Which of the following
features of Photoshop have you used before:
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Feature
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Yes
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No
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Comments if yes – where
have you completed this skills and to what level
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Text
control
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Yes
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- Designing my magazine
and double page spread.
Completed at AS Level
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Filters
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Yes
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- Using filters on my
final product (altering the front cover image of my magazine) to make my
images brighter.
Completed at AS Level
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Brushes
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Yes
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- I uploaded brushes to
create different effects for my magazine cover, and Christmas card.
Completed at AS Level
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Layers
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Yes
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- I used layers to
create my final product.
Completed at AS Level
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Opacity
control
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Yes
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- I made different texts
and images opaque to blend into the background.
Completed at AS Level
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Shape
creation
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Yes
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- I created boxes and
lines for the front cover of my double page spread.
Completed at AS Level
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Brightness
and contrast control
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Yes
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- I experimenting with
my images, making them high contrast. I particularly used this whilst editing
the first images I took in unit 1 and also the images on my double page
spread and front cover of my magazine.
Completed at AS Level
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Gradients
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Yes
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- I changed many of my
images to become black and white.
Completed at AS Level
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Load
selection features
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Yes
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- I cut out images to be
applied to my magazine front cover.
Completed at AS Level
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Feathering
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Yes
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- I used the magic wand
tool to cut out my main image for my magazine front cover. I then used feathering
to soften the image.
Completed at AS Level
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Colour
curves adjustment
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Yes
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- I altered many of my images
to make them stand out and become more colourful.
Completed at AS Level
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Resolution
setting control
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Yes
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- I set the resolution of
my magazine cover to 300 pixels per inch when opening my page.
Completed at AS Level
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Magnetic
lasso, polygon lasso tool
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Yes
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- I used the lasso tool
to cut out my image from its background for my magazine front cover.
Completed at AS Level
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Cropping
tool
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Yes
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- I cropped many of my
images (for example, my front cover of my magazine image) to make only half
of the models face visible.
Completed at AS Level
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Clone
tool
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No
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Retouch
tool
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Yes
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- I used the dodge and
burn tool to lighten and darken certain areas in my photo-shoot photographs.
- I used the spot and
heal brush to alter the imperfections in a photograph I found on the internet
(shown in blog)
- I used the warp tool
to alter the teeth of somebody, to give them the appearance of vampire fangs
(shown in blog)
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Other
skills
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I learnt how to
duplicate layers.
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I learnt how to use the
free transform tool, allowing me to rotate images and shapes
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I learnt how to apply
strokes on texts
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I learnt how to apply
many text effects such as bevel and emboss.
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In Design
Skills
Which of the following
features of In Design have you used before:
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Feature
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Yes
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No
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Comments if yes – where
have you completed this skills and to what level
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Have
you ever used In design ever before?
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Yes
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- I used InDesign when
creating my double page spread for my magazine at college.
Completed at AS Level
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Margin
and column guide creation
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Yes
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- I used margins and
column guides to make sure that all of my lines and text were in the right
places in my double page spread.
Completed at AS Level
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Inserting
an image ID
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Yes
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- I completed this skill inserting my images
into InDesign when creating my double page spread.
Completed at AS Level
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Resizing
images in ID
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Yes
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- I resized my images in my double page
spread when they didn’t fit in my double page spread.
Completed at AS Level
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Text
manipulation – resizing, rotation
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Yes
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- I resized my text when creating my double
page spread.
Completed at AS Level
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Text
manipulation – controlling kerning and leading
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No
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Text
flow creation
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Yes
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- I used text flow
creation to link my paragraphs of my article together in my double page
spread.
Completed at AS Level
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Using
transparent imagery in ID
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No
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Shape/line
creation In design
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Yes
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- I used lines in my
double page spread and created many shapes to hold my text and outline my
text.
Completed at AS Level
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Exporting
to PDF from In-design
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Yes
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- I completed this skill
when uploading my final product to Moodle.
Completed at AS Level
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Text
Wrap
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No
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Other
Skills
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Number of new skills achieved: 22
