Post Production -Task 3 Answer.

• Detail the progression you made post-production, specifically from:
• Editing a conversation (prelim) to a 3 min music video (and possibly a 2 min opening to a film at AS).
• Progression using Photoshop from a school magazine front cover and contents, to a music magazine cover, contents page and DPS to a CD digipack and music magazine advertisement.
• Try to think about how you have become more technically competent in terms of your use of digital technology to present work creatively at the stage of post-production.
• The progression I have made post-production as regards to editing a conversation is pretty significant. When looking back at the short clip we filmed as a group, I think that my ability to take leadership and control over a project has not changed although I feel that my ability to see a shot well and edit a video has.
• My progression with Photoshop has not been significant however, I do feel that my ability to be creative and push the boudaries by experimenting with Photoshop has improved considerably. I think that my overall appearance and layout of work has become more professional and refined.
• I think that the fact that I had to airbrush and edit each individual photo at A2 which involved a lot more work than AS, shows how my ability to work in large scale improvement. I feel that the amount of airburshing and intencity of it has truly tested by abilities with Photoshop and I feel that I am now at a higher level of Photoshop ability.

Post Production -Task 2 Answer.

• You have 10 minutes to brainstorm everything you did for your main product at A2 at the stage of post-production. This must be detailed in terms of tools used, the software pros/cons, your strengths/weaknesses.
• At A2, the things I did at post-production included:
• Producing a draft music video and ancillary tasks including a magazine advertisement and a digipack CD artwork.
• Producing a final draft music video and ancillary tasks including a magazine dadvertisement and a digipack CD artwork.
• I used photoshop for my acillary tasks and used tools such as the crop tool, correction tool to airbrush the images, adjusted the levels, curves, saturation of the images, used the text tool, used the dodge, greyscale and burn tools. I experimented with layering and adding different light filters, this was time consuming although effective.
• I downloaded fonts from dafont.com in order to produce my ancillary tasks.
• My music video was firstly edited on Adobe premier where I experimented with lighting effects and editing.
• My final draft of my music video was edited using iMovie where I also experimented with curves, saturation and editing.
•  I uploaded my final drarfts to my blog aswell as printing them off onto large scale for the hand-in.
• The pros/cons of editing software:
• I found Photoshop easy to work with as I had used it in my AS year aswell as outside of school so therefore I was aware of how to use it and could experiment with editing. Therefore I found Photoshop to easily use.
• I found Adobe Premiere simple to work with as it used the same named tools as Adobe Photoshop, therefore, even though I had never used this program before, I could easily understand how to work it with minimum preperation beforehand.
• The only problem with this program was that the program expired after 30 days of a trial and there was no way that I could install this particular editing software again aposed to a program such as Photoshop.
• iMovie proved difficulat to work with initially as the layout of everything was so different to an Adobe program. I felt that because of this simplicity, I was afraid that the outcome of my music video would not lookas professional as if it were edited on Adobe Premier.
• The pros of this were that it had some editing sfotware that I was able to use in order to change the saturation and curves etc. although I could not include the lighting effects I was experimenting with on Adobe Premier.
• My Strengths/Weaknesses:
• I feel that my strengths on Photoshop have grown since AS, even though I had used the program before. I feel that my ability to push the boundaries and think outside my initial ideas has become a skill of mine and I have become more experimental with it.
• My strengths at editing videos has improved as I have never edited a music video before and I am proud that I could learn to program two different editing softwares and make them work for me.
• My weaknesses would be my time management of downloading software as perhaps if I had downloaded Premier earlier, I would've been able to complete my video on that software instead of learning how to use another.
• You should also detail your progression of graphics and DTP skills at the stage of post-production between AS and your A2 ancillary tasks.
• My progression of graphics over AS and A2 has improved considerably I think as although I was extremely proud and please with my work produced at A2, I think that my experimental flare at A2 enabled me to produce the work that I did and wouldnt have been able to at AS.

Post Production -Task 1 Answer.

• You have 5 minutes to brainstorm everything you did for your main product at AS at the stage of post-production.
• At the stage of Post-production for as I:
• Created a draft cover, contents and DPS using Photoshop.
• Created a final draft cover, contents and DPS using Photoshop.
• In Photoshop, I used tools such as the crop tool, correction tool to airbrush the images, adjusted the levels, curves, saturation of the images, used the text tool, used the dodge, greyscale and burn tools, I also used art filters to create the cover.
• I downloaded a font for my magazine text from dafont.com and installed it.
• I Edited eat Photo individually on Photoshop and created a slideshare presentation.
• I asked for peer feedback on my first draft aswell as teacher feedback in order to improve points for my final draft.
• I uploaded my final drarfts to my blog aswell as printing them off onto large scale for the hand-in.
• I wrote up my first and final draft of my article with my artist to use on my DPS.
• Software Pros/Cons:
• The software I used was Photoshop, I found it extremely easy to work with as I had used Photoshop before and because of this I felt that I could experiment more with the tols it provides although overall I love this program.
• There were no real cons to the software at AS, the only thing would be that the technology I used to take my images, i.e., my camera at AS did not provide me a guarenteed good result as some images were ruined by the blur that I found after uploading to my computer.
• My Streengths/Weaknesses:
• I feel that my strengths at AS were especially with Photoshop as I have had experience working with it before and love creating things within the program. I feel that this pre-prepared skill enabled me to create the work that I did.
• I feel that another strength of mine was my ability to reseach. I feel that mise en scene and the idea of a 'concept' and link thoughout my work is vital and so my research into locations and styling etc. proved well for me to do this.
• I think that my weaknesses were possibly time management at AS, as I left things unplanned which cost time, this is something I hoped to improve for my A2 year.