Final Skills Audit

AS Media Production: Final Skills Audit Print Production

 

Name:  Catherine Smith Tutor group: 1:12 Date: 16/04/2013

 

Photographic Skills

 

Feature	Yes	No	Comments if yes – where have you completed this skills and to what level
Manual Focus features	/		I used this while taking any pictures to upload onto my blog, and for my front cover and double page spread, it helped me to make sure all photos were properly focused the way I needed them to be.
Shutter Speed	/		I used this on a shoot experiment testing fast and slow shutter speeds, taking photographs of people jumping and using torches in dark rooms to make shapes.
Aperture control	/		I used this while we tested how much light needed to be let into the photograph in a certain amount of time in order to get a certain type of picture.
Continuous Shoot	/		I used this in an experiment in order to capture quick photographs while blowing bubbles with bubble gum and bubble liquid.
A tripod	/		I used this while we experimented with aperture in order to keep the camera still while the photographs were being taken.
External flash	/		I used this in my photoshoot as an external flash had to be used to make the photos appear more professional. During this I had various other equipment including softboxes and a honeycomb lighting filter etc.
Self timer facility		/
Light meter		/
Composition grids	/		The composition grids I used was the rule of three, depicting where to place the model in a photograph in order to give an idea of how dominant and powerful they are meant to appear, for example if I wanted them to seem powerful, I’d place them in the top third of the photograph.

 

Photoshop Skills

 

 

Feature	Yes	No	Comments if yes – where have you completed this skills and to what level
Text control	/		I used this almost every time I used photoshop to edit images of create front covers, it enabled me to transform my text and change its size etc.
Filters		/
Brushes	/		I used these when creating a CD front cover; I had to download new brush styles from the internet in order to use them on photoshop.
Layers	/		I used layers in every photoshop project we did. These enabled me to do different things on one photoshop file that were easily accessible if I needed them again or wanted to change them.
Opacity control	/		I used this to make things such as shapes more or less transparent, and I used this on the vampire project to make her skin appear lighter.
Shape creation	/		I used the shape creation tool to make circles, squares etc on various photoshop projects such as making front covers.
Brightness and contrast control	/		I used this to edit any photographs I wanted to use on photoshop.
Gradients	/		I used gradients to create colour tones on my images.
Load selection features		/
Feathering	/		I used feathering when I created the vignette effect on photoshop in order to keep it looking smooth.
Colour curves adjustment	/		I used this to edit the colours in certain photographs on photoshop for a project we did involving it.
Resolution setting control	/		I used this whenever I used photoshop or opened a new photoshop file, and had to change the resolution setting to 300dpi.
Magnetic lasso, polygon lasso tool	/		I used this to draw irregular shapes around images on photoshop.
Cropping tool	/		I used this to change the size and/or shape of my images on photoshop, and crop out any bits I felt I didn’t need or want.
Clone tool	/		I used this to recreate a particular bit of the photograph that I had selected to use again on a different area.
Retouch tool	/		I used this during a particular photoshop project where we had to get rid of all the spots on a person’s face and make them appear to have more flawless skin, I also used this on my photographs for my front cover and double page spread.
Other skills	/		I learnt how to save photoshop files as  JPEGs so I could access them again in the future, as well as place them into InDesign

 

In Design Skills

 

Feature	Yes	No	Comments if yes – where have you completed this skills and to what level
Margin and column guide creation	/		I used this when making double page spreads, so I knew where to put my columns and how big to make them.
Inserting an image ID	/		I used this every time I used InDesign to place an image into my double page spreads.
Resizing images in ID	/		I used this whenever I used InDesign, so I could change the size of my images without stretching or distorting them.
Text manipulation – resizing, rotation	/		I used this whenever I inserted text into my double page spreads, to make it more obvious which bits were headers, kickers, or the main body.
Text manipulation – controlling kerning and leading	/		I used this when I was making my double page spread in order to alter different fonts to make the letters closer together or further away, and make the lines closer or not.
Text flow creation	/		I used this whenever I put text into my double page spreads, to get it to continue on from one box to the next.
Using transparent imagery in ID	/		I used this when I imported PNG files so the background of the image was transparent.
Shape/line creation In design	/		I used this when creating my double page spread in order to separate certain bodies of texts with lines, or insert shapes to the page.
Exporting to PDF from In-design	/		I used this when I finished my double page spread, and had to turn it into a PDF in order to upload it.
Text Wrap and advanced text wrap	/		I did this when I made a practise double page spread for disability, and I put an image in so the text had to wrap around it and fit to the shape of the image.
Other Skills		/