Media Studies Skills Audit

Complete and reflect.

Skill Area	Confident / Good at this ✅	Need Improvement ⚡	Need to Learn 📘
Analyzing how camera shots/angles create meaning	x
Using editing techniques to create meaning		x
Understanding mise-en-scène (costume, setting, lighting, props)		x
Explaining how sound (diegetic, non-diegetic, motifs, bridges) contributes to meaning			x
Applying media theories (genre, audience, representation, institutions)			x
Researching and analyzing case studies of media texts		x
Planning and organizing production work (storyboards, shot lists, scripts)		x
Technical production skills (camera operation, lighting, editing software)		x
Writing critically (essays, textual analysis, blog posts)	x
Reflecting on progress and evaluating own work		x

Media Studies Technical Skills Audit

Complete and reflect

Technical Skill	Confident / Good at this ✅	Need Improvement ⚡	Need to Learn 📘
Using a camera (basic operation, focus, framing)	x
Understanding and applying camera settings (aperture, shutter speed, ISO, white balance)	x
Recording stable shots (tripod, handheld, tracking)		x
Using lighting equipment or natural light effectively		x
Recording clear sound (microphones, ambient control)	x
Importing and organizing media files	x
Using video editing software (cutting, sequencing, layering tracks)		x
Adding titles, text, and graphics		x
Adding and editing sound/music in post-production	x
Exporting final projects in correct formats		x

Last year when I was a AS level student. I look back to certain things and say to myself I know this or I think I know this

pretty well and other things that I just know that I don't know. Since it's a new year there are things I can improve on.

Something like analyzing how camera shots and angles help create meaning I am confident that I understand pretty well

as well as adding and editing sound I am confident of my skill in that are however There are somethings I know I have

to Improve. Such as Using lighting equipment or the use of natural light because that can make my final result

for the project that I have to submit toward the end of the school year. Another thing that I need to improve

is recording more stability because I do not have a steady hands so the idea of using a tripod to maintain

my phone stable when recording is a good idea. So that the final result look better