Post Production - AS

AS Coursework.
Photoshop-

• Artworks and Effects
• Magnetic Lasso Tool(to cut around pictures)
• Horizontal type tool
• Crop Tool
• Cookie Cutter Tool
• Blur Tool
• Paint Bucket
• Paint Brush
• Magic Eraser Tool
• Red Eye Removal Tool
• Eye Dropper Tool
• Hand Tool
• Zoom Tool

Strengths for this piece of coursework was the ideas from preliminary to my final product, after researching and learning more things I had more creative ideas and was able to create a better piece of work. In my preliminary activity i only used the tools ; Magnetic lasso Tool, Font, Colour, Paint Bucket and Artworks and Effects, and showing above are the list of tools that were used when creating my drafts and final products. Weaknesses from this AS piece of coursework were learning how to use more tools on photoshop. I feel from my preliminary work to my drafts and final piece of work although I found photoshop difficult to use my work improved.

A2 Coursework.

The software that we used to edit our music video for this piece of coursework was Imovie. The type of tools we used were to either slow down the clips that we filmed or speed things up, to add text over our video to make it slightly more creative and putting the music over our video.
From the draft to the video we changed the editing software because we had problems with using Adobe premier elements therefore changed it to use Imovie which we found a lot easier and simpler to figure out what tools to use.
for the ancillary tasks we used photoshop at post production stage to edit what we had created from our drafts to make them better and fit better with our target audience and our artist.

Draft Ancillary Tasks:

• Magnetic Lasso Tool
• Red Eye Removal Tool
• Font
• Colour
• Artworks and Effects

Final Ancillary Tasks:

• Magnetic Lasso Tool
• Red Eye Removal Tool
• Font
• Colour
• Artworks and Effects
• Eye Dropper Tool
• Hand Tool
• Zoom Tool
• Horizontal type tool
• Paint Bucket
• Paint Brush

Progress From AS to A2
From our tasks in AS to A2 i believe i improved alot in my photoshop skills and think that even aspects such as the layout of the products i were making improved and i think that this is because i did more research and planning for my A2 pieces of work therefore i tried to use more conventions used in a real media product in my products to make them more realistic and more professional. With the music video we produced these were completely new skills that we learnt when editing as i had not tried this at my AS level, therefore i think that if i was to produce this piece of coursework again then i would be able to improve because that would be improving what i had previously done rather than completely learning something new.

Evaluations

I believe that my evaluation from AS to A2 improved alot, this was because it was set out in a much more professional way and i used more programs and ones that i had used before but at A2 i used them more confidently which helped me to produce better work. Programs that i used were;

AS- PowerPoint and typed writing.

A2- Animoto, Prezi and a typed answer with annotated pictures.

i think just listing these programs shows the improvements and progress from AS to A2 and the layout of how i set them visually showed more creativity which i would of learn and progressed with throughout both years of my media coursework.