Skills Assessment

When doing my AS work last year, I learnt a number of new skills which I have never done before. One of the first things I learnt was how to use a Mac, before college I had never used a Mac before so I was weary when I found out we would be using them, I was also excited too because they are something new to use. Once I had turned it on and logged on etc I found it quite easy to use and find my way around.

Another thing I learnt how to use were websites such as Blogger and Prezi to store my work, I don't think I had ever even heard of these websites before until we had to start using them at college. Once I had set up accounts on both the websites I found them pretty easy to use and thought it was a good and different way of storing work instead of just using normal documents which is boring. 

When it came to starting to make my AS product, I needed to take pictures, so I had to use a Professional Camera to make the photos look high quality for the images in my magazine, I learnt about framing, eyeline, proportion and a lot more to do with taking photographs, this helped me when it came to having to take the photos for my product because it meant I could make them stand out in a good way and make them look professional.

 I had to use brand new software which I was not familiar with. Firstly I had to use Photoshop, this was hard at first because there were a lot of technical things which you could do on the software, but I realised that I didn't have to use all of the things on there, so when I figured out the things I needed to use I found it easy because there were only a few things to use. 

Another piece of software that I had to use was InDesign, I had never heard of this software before starting Media Studies, and I found this quite hard to use at first, I had to ask people around me a lot about how to do a lot of stuff. We only had to make the double page spread on InDesign and then insert everything into there in the end, so I was glad that I wouldn't be using it for long.

Starting Second Year Media Studies, I am a lot more confident because I already know how to use most of the software on the Macs, I think I should be able to get work done a lot quicker and faster because I shouldn't struggle as much last year when using the software.