Aims of advanced portfolio

Genre: Teen Horror

Plot summary: Based around a timid teenage girl who studies constantly and spends most of her time in the school library. Unfortunately, a group of popular and desirable teenage girls bully her to the point in which she loses all self control and turns into a psychotic mess, whereby she kills each of her enemies one by one.

Aims:To engage audience in a horror film trailers which appears postmodern, as well as a film poster and promotional web page.

Target audience: Young to late teens.

Institutions: Small independent company with limited funds.

Write an analysis of your skills using digital media technologies.

Skills I have development from AS media studies in the following digital technologies.
In Desktop publishing
· Create text boxes
· Change size of text box
· Insert text
· Change size/colour of text
· Change background
· Insert images
· Layer objects
· Rotate objects
Photoshop
· Layer images
· Change size of images
· Crop images
· Use different filters
· Changing backgrounds on different layers
· Merging layers together
· Inserting text
· Changing contrast, brightening and using the saturation and hue tools
· Changing fonts
· Inserting images
· Lock certain layers
Camera
· Zoom
· Taking shots in different perspectives
· Setting up studio lighting
Camcorder
· Load tape

Identify any gaps in your skills that you will need to develop for the next piece of coursework:
Have no experience in editing, therefore throughout the coursework I hope to learn how to capture footage, cut footage, move footage, change time speed, add effects, remove sound, add soundtrack, create movie and rewind images.
No experience in using a tripod or using different setting of the camcorder.