Skills

Digital technology

• using garage band to create sound for my products
• how to cut and copy sound
• learning how to use photoshop to manipulate images for products 
• cropping, and editing the contrast and brightness of an image
• using in design to create a double page spread 
• how to place images into indesign
• learning how to use video camera's and professional cameras to create professional products 
• learning what certain buttons do and testing different ways to achieve different shots
• using after effects to create inter titles, using video's to animate my inter titles

Research and planning

• finding out codes and conventions of professional products by looking at successful products posters and trailer 
• learning how to represent a certain genre by analysing how other products represent genre by using specific features such as colour schemes 
• learning how to promote products as a package from looking at other promotional packages and learning how they connect with each other
• how to create brand identity
• Seeing the standard of images used in professional products and learning the quality they need to be
• learning the length of typical trailers and shot lengths such as horror shots being short in order to create suspense 

Post production

• using final cut to bring shots together in order to create a trailer
• how to use final cut, opening video files and editing them to make a trailer
• importing sound files from my documents into final cut
• I have also learnt how to resize images 
• how to edit text such as applying strokes
• Conventions from real media texts