AS Media Production: Final Skills Audit Print Production
Name: Connor Stephenson Tutor
group: 2.40 Date: 15/42013
Photographic Skills
Which of the following photographic
features/equipment have you used on a camera before:
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Feature
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Yes
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No
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Comments if yes – where have you
completed this skills and to what level
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Manual
Focus features
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X
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I have used manual focus features as
part of my photo shoot in order to sharpen up the images and in order to
focus on specific details of the images
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Shutter
Speed
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X
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I have used shutter speed as part of
my media work; I used it in order to capture motion.
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Aperture
control
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X
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I have used aperture control as part
of my skills development work on my blog; I used apertures in order to create
depth of field.
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ISO Control
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X
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I have used ISO control on a camera
in order to alter the shutter speed as part of my skills development work.
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A tripod
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X
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I used a tripod when I was doing my
aperture control work.
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External
flash
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X
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I used an external flash when I had my photo shoot, i used a soft box as
an external flash.
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Self timer
facility
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x
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Light meter
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x
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Composition
grids
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x
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Photoshop Skills
Which of the following features of
Photoshop have you used before:
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Feature
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Yes
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No
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Comments if yes – where have you
completed this skills and to what level
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Text
control
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X
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I have used text control in order to
create my front cover of my magazine.
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Filters
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X
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I used filters in my skills
development in order to make an image black and white.
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Brushes
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X
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I used brushes in my skills
development in order to make a CD cover using brushes only
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Layers
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X
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I used layers when creating my front
cover, it helped to create a 3d looking cover
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Opacity
control
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X
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Shape
creation
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X
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I used shape creation in order to
make circles with a price inside for my front cover.
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Brightness
and contrast control
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X
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I used brightness and contrast
control on my front cover because the image was under exposed.
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Gradients
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X
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Load
selection features
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X
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Feathering
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X
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I used this on my product when
making circular images for the cover
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Colour
curves adjustment
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Resolution
setting control
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X
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I used resolution control when making
my front cover, I set the resolution to 300dpi
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Magnetic
lasso, polygon lasso tool
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X
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I used the lasso tool when making my
front cover I used it to select parts of images to add to my front cover
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Cropping
tool
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X
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I never used this in my product
however I have used it in projects before
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Clone tool
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X
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I used the clone tool to clean up
images and faces.
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Retouch
tool
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Other
skills
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In Design Skills
Which of the following features of In
Design have you used before:
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Feature
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Yes
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No
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Comments if yes – where have you
completed this skills and to what level
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Have you ever
used In design ever before?
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X
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Yes I used it to create the DPS of
my product.
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Margin and
column guide creation
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X
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I used this feature to create
margins in my product
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Inserting
an image in ID
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X
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I used this when creating my DPS
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Resizing
images in ID
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X
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I used this when creating my DPS
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Text
manipulation – resizing, rotation
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X
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I used this to create my title
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Text
manipulation – controlling kerning and leading
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X
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I used this to create my title
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Text flow
creation
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X
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I used this to create my title
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Using
transparent imagery in ID
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X
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Shape/line
creation In design
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X
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Exporting
to PDF from In-design
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X
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I used this to upload my DPS
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Text Wrap
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X
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I used this to make the text fit to
the image
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Other
Skills
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