Final Skill Audit

AS Media Production: Final Skills Audit Print Production

Name: Robson Jones                                              Date:25/04/2014

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		I used this skill in my photoshoots, allowing me to find the focus myself rather than using an automatic focus
Shutter Speed	X		I adjusted the shutter speed, this can be seen on my blog from 01/04/14
Aperture control	X		Yes as seen on my blog
ISO Control	X		As seen on my blog
A tripod	X		Using family camera
External flash	X		I used this on my photoshoot, we used softboxes to create the external flash and allowed for better lighting on my photo.
Self timer facility		X
Light meter		X
Composition grids	X		Used for most images as a way to line up images

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		Used on my front cover to add in text
Filters	X		As seen on my blog
Brushes		X
Layers	X		Used layers to put in different parts of the front cover
Opacity control		X
Shape creation	X		Created shapes to try and fill different parts of my front cover as different colours
Brightness and contrast control	X		Changed the brightness and contrast as a way to
Gradients	X
Load selection features		X
Feathering	X
Colour curves adjustment		X
Resolution setting control	X		Used when exporting front cover onto InDesign
Magnetic lasso, polygon lasso tool	X		Used to cut out part of the image
Cropping tool	X		Used this a number of times
Clone tool		X
Retouch tool		X
Other skills	X		Burn and Dodge were used on my blog as well as on my final product for my DPS image and front cover, to make the edges more dark to allow for the rest of the pages to stand out more.

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		Can use this now at quite a high level for the creation of my DPS
Margin and column guide creation	X		Final product creation, to make sure that I ad an even space between each of my columns
Inserting an image ID	X		Can be seen on my final product, with the insertion of my main image
Resizing images in ID	X		Used in my final product when inserting my main image
Text manipulation – resizing, rotation	X		Used in the DPS of my final product
Text manipulation – controlling kerning and leading	X		Used for my subheader to make the text pop out of the page more
Text flow creation	X		I used this to allow my article to flow from column to column
Using transparent imagery in ID		X
Shape/line creation In design	X		I created shapes as a way to keep my article organised
Exporting to PDF from In-design	X		I used this on my final product to upload my product for the final hand in
Text Wrap	X		Wrapped the text around my quote insert
Other Skills	X		Use of Drop Caps in my final product

Number of new skills achieved: 24 from my original skills assessment I have gained 24 new skills.