Section A Question 1A:

Describe how you developed your skill in the use of digital technology and evaluate how this contributed to your post-production.


In my AS i edited all my images on three photo editing softwares, First i downloaded my images using a USB cable to conect my camera to my laptop this brought my photos up on IPhoto this downloaded the raw images and put them into a file. I then open photoshop and picked the choosen few i decided to edit from the many raw images i took. I then changed the focus's and made them look more defined, i changed the contrast to it all was in sync, i tried to make the images look as professional as i could. As i wasnt very familiar with Photoshop i couldnt do to much editing so i then went onto the internet and i logged into Piknic which is an online photo editing software.This let me add effects for example like 'Black and white' and 'Sepia' It also let me crop my images so the waste part of the photo was cut out from what i wanted in my magazine photos and front cover.My magazine was then put together mostly on Publisher as my knowledge of Indesign was very small. Once my images were uploaded to publisher i then began finding the title font and effect i wanted for my magazine. With my title i fadded the letters to make it more transparant as i felt this went more with the theme of my magazine.



I edited all my raw material of my trailer footage on final cut pro on a mac laptop. I started by conecting by video cannon camera with a USB to the laptop, this brought up Imovie which was the storer to my raw footage. On Imovie it saved all the rushes to a file which i downloaded into final cut pro.




In my AS evaluation I used Blogger, this was my base to laying out all my coursework and my final evaluation. In my evaluation i copied and pasted into it my manipulated images and took images from google that were the logo's of the certain magazine distributioners, so that when i was describing my progress of my AS coursework i had photographic images to back the information up. In my progression to A2 i once again used blogger as my base layout as this was the easiest and most clear way of showing my coursework and evalutation in various different ways without complication. Using blogger let me be able to insert videos in the answers to my evaluation questions which made my coursework a lot more technology varied. By making the videos; for one of the questions i filmed myself answering one of the questions spoken directly into the camera. For another question i took screen shot images of the trailer and magazine and poster so that me and my partner could put a running comentry over the top of the images showing our experimentation of our knowledge of different media variations to answer the questions. I Still included a written answer with the images i had copied and pasted like in AS to back my A2 answer up, infact i even included pie charts which was a slight progression from my AS written answer as it showed the technical sided example of what i was explaining about the sizes and proportions.