Digital Technology: How have your skills developed over the course?
My skills relating to digital technology have developed over the time of my Media Studies course, which is split into 2 years, the 1st being AS and the 2nd being A2 which come together to make an A Level. In the 1st year of this course (AS), I learnt a few more features of Microsoft Publisher but hardly anything as I had already used the program in my GCSE’s for creating a CD cover but learnt a few new things in AS, relating to useful features for creating magazines. I then used that knowledge from GCSE and AS for my A2 coursework, as the task for AS was to create a school and music magazine, and in A2, one of the tasks was to create a film magazine (plus I also used Publisher for my film poster & the third task is to do a teaser trailer but is unrelated to Publisher). And this was easy to do, as I already knew the program and although conventions/forms are slightly different on film magazines opposed to music, they are similar, for example: they both feature barcodes. Through doing all this coursework I have skills in applying conventions/forms of existing products onto my original creations.
My skills have developed over the course because I have learnt about and how to use Windows Movie Maker which I have never used before doing the A2 coursework of creating a teaser trailer (as a group- but I did the editing). I have learnt how to cut down footage and split it into pieces. I have also learnt how to insert pictures and text, how to add special effects, sound, etc…