Final skills audit

AS Media Production: Final Skills Audit Print Production

Name:                         Tutor group:              Date:

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	x		Composition, production pictures
Shutter Speed	x		I used this feature for many assigments during the year such as the falling leaves and the torch in the dark
Aperture control	x		Change depth of field
ISO Control	x		Changing the light that is been allowed into the lenses from 200-800 to brighten the images and avoid black images
A tripod		x
External flash	x		Flash to enhance the picture and lighten images
Self timer facility	x		To allow for movement
Light meter	x		For magazine photos to get the right settings for our product.
Composition grids	x		Rule of thirds to help position and balance the image

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	x		I used this tool to move text either closer together or further apart I also used it to change size and shape of the text for magazine front cover
Filters		x
Brushes		x
Layers	x		Layers used in Photoshop in order to make sure each layer was changeable and doesn’t effect the real image this is of great help as it make it easier to create a professional front cover if there were no layers it would be difficult to edit as the changes would effect the rest of the factors on the page.
Opacity control	x		Makes a block colour more transparent I used this for my slash at the bottom right hand corner which had my main sell line on it I don’t this by creating a shape changing the colour to a mustard yellow and the changing the opacity to make it transparent.
Shape creation	x		Creating shapes for front cover to give a professional effect I used this to create my splash and the boxes behind my sell line “get excited”.
Brightness and contrast control	x		Changing the contrast in order to achieve the best colour and quality for my photos which I then used for my final product but I also used this for other products during the year.
Gradients		x
Load selection features	x		Mostly used for my magazine. I used this in order to put the model on front of magazine front cover title to give the impression that she is the most dominant.
Feathering		x
Colour curves adjustment		x
Resolution setting control	x		I set my pictures at 300 pixels per inch in order to achieve the right resolution for my images.
Magnetic lasso, polygon lasso tool	x		Placing image on front of other objects I also used this to put the head of my model on front on the magazine title to create the impression of independence, importance and superiority
Cropping tool	x		Cropping out imperfections such as background imperfections this was used quite a lot throughout the year if I wanted to just have one person on the photo or I didn’t like something in the corner of the image I cropped it out to put the main focus on what the image was about.
Clone tool	x		I used this tool in order to change the colour of glasses to get rid of the shine for what I was going to use as the main image for my front cover.
Retouch tool	x		I used this tool quiet a lot through out the year the first main exercise I used it for was getting rid of spots and blemishes for Zoe as seen on my blog but I also used it on my main image to get rid of blemishes on my own photos for my final product.
Other skills Stroke tool Warp tool Doge and burn Margin guides			All these other skills I used to edit and perfect the image I had taken for all exercise’s we had to do in order to achieve the best quality images. The dodge and the burn tool I used in the vampire tutorial in order to alter her teeth and change the colour of her face.

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?	x		I have now used InDesign in order to create my double page spread for my final product. I used all the settings I have marked bellow in order to create a professional looking magazine. I also used it earlier on in the year to create a mock Double page spread in order to get used to the settings and what they did for my final product.
Margin and column guide creation	x		I used this to create the 4 main columns on my Double page spread this helped my to keep the text in line and avoided having too much text on the page. It also made it easier as I could link up the boxes so that when I pasted my article in it automatically linked itself to the next box which saved me a lot of time and hassle.
Inserting an image ID	x		I used this to insert my images for both double page spreads. I first had to export the image from Photoshop and then insert the edited image into my article on InDesign.
Resizing images in ID	x		This can be a challenge at times but I used this to change the size of my images so that it fit in well in my double page spread. I had to ensure that the girl on both sides was proportional to one another in order to give it a professional look. After inserting the image sometimes they can out extremely large and you had to fit it down to size I mainly don’t this my clicking fit to frame.
Text manipulation – resizing, rotation	x		I used this often in both my double page spreads. On my final product I used it for the main title of the page in order to put the P’s on top of one another to create the effect I wanted, I used it for the enlarged quotation throughout the article and further more I used it for the drop cap to kick of my article and for the numbers of each step.
Text manipulation – controlling kerning and leading
Text flow creation		x
Using transparent imagery in ID		x
Shape/line creation In design		x
Exporting to PDF from In-design	x		I used this for both Double page spread which I created as both had to be exported as a PDF in order for them to be posted on the internet aka my blog and onto Moodle.
Text Wrap	x		I used text wrap for the enlarged quotation in my Double page spread so that it fit nicely into the article.
Other Skills