Final Skills Audit Print Production

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:

Feature	Yes	No	Comments if yes – where have you completed this skills and to what level
Manual Focus features	Yes		- 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
Shutter Speed	Yes		- 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
Aperture control	No
ISO Control	Yes		- I took photographs for my magazine. Completed at AS Level
A tripod	Yes		- 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
External flash		No
Self timer facility		No
Light meter	Yes		- I took photographs in photo studio using a light meter so that I got the correct lighting for my images. Completed at AS Level
Composition grids	Yes		- I completed this skill when using the college camera to take photographs. Completed at AS Level

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	Yes		- Designing my magazine and double page spread. Completed at AS Level
Filters	Yes		- Using filters on my final product (altering the front cover image of my magazine) to make my images brighter. Completed at AS Level
Brushes	Yes		- I uploaded brushes to create different effects for my magazine cover, and Christmas card. Completed at AS Level
Layers	Yes		- I used layers to create my final product. Completed at AS Level
Opacity control	Yes		- I made different texts and images opaque to blend into the background. Completed at AS Level
Shape creation	Yes		- I created boxes and lines for the front cover of my double page spread. Completed at AS Level
Brightness and contrast control	Yes		- 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
Gradients	Yes		- I changed many of my images to become black and white. Completed at AS Level
Load selection features	Yes		- I cut out images to be applied to my magazine front cover. Completed at AS Level
Feathering	Yes		- 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
Colour curves adjustment	Yes		- I altered many of my images to make them stand out and become more colourful. Completed at AS Level
Resolution setting control	Yes		- I set the resolution of my magazine cover to 300 pixels per inch when opening my page. Completed at AS Level
Magnetic lasso, polygon lasso tool	Yes		- I used the lasso tool to cut out my image from its background for my magazine front cover. Completed at AS Level
Cropping tool	Yes		- 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
Clone tool		No
Retouch tool	Yes		- 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)
Other skills			-       I learnt how to duplicate layers. -       I learnt how to use the free transform tool, allowing me to rotate images and shapes -       I learnt how to apply strokes on texts -       I learnt how to apply many text effects such as bevel and emboss.

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?	Yes		- I used InDesign when creating my double page spread for my magazine at college. Completed at AS Level
Margin and column guide creation	Yes		- 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
Inserting an image ID	Yes		- I completed this skill inserting my images into InDesign when creating my double page spread. Completed at AS Level
Resizing images in ID	Yes		- I resized my images in my double page spread when they didn’t fit in my double page spread. Completed at AS Level
Text manipulation – resizing, rotation	Yes		- I resized my text when creating my double page spread. Completed at AS Level
Text manipulation – controlling kerning and leading		No
Text flow creation	Yes		- I used text flow creation to link my paragraphs of my article together in my double page spread. Completed at AS Level
Using transparent imagery in ID		No
Shape/line creation In design	Yes		- I used lines in my double page spread and created many shapes to hold my text and outline my text. Completed at AS Level
Exporting to PDF from In-design	Yes		- I completed this skill when uploading my final product to Moodle. Completed at AS Level
Text Wrap		No
Other Skills			Inserting drop caps Inserting coloured backgrounds

Number of new skills achieved: 22