Describe how you developed your skills in the use of digital technology for media production and evaluate how these skills contributed to your creative decision making. Refer to a range of examples in your answer to show how these skills developed over time.

The course requires you to be open minded and ready to use new and different forms of digital technology. The different forms of digital technology that I used were Blogger, cameras and Photoshop. Using these I could produce and develop my skills in many ways such as, how to use these forms or digital technologies and how to use them in a constructive way to construct and produce my final products.

Blogger was the first thing I was introduced to. It allowed me to put all of my ideas, Planning, essays, photos, videos, scanning work and final products onto the blog. Blogger enabled to put all my ideas together and make a final decision making. It allows you to look back and piece together all of the posts you have made to produce and piece everything together. Blogger helped me develop my skills on how to structure, clearly show my workings out and show it all in chronological order. When I took my photos I could easily upload my photos onto the blog and analyse each photo and write a descriptive analyse of each photo below the photo. When it came to uploading videos to do the LIIAR analysis. Blogger allows you to upload photos so this allowed me to scan things into the computer then publish them onto my blog. Blogger helped me develop my skills and by the end of the year I was confident about using Blogger and knew how to work it and structure my work clearly.

For the two projects we were given, One being the College magazine and the second being the Music Magazine, to make the magazines we needed photos and to take the photos we used the Vivitar 8 megapixel cameras. Using the camera was quite difficult at first but I soon learnt how to use it. It took me a couple of photos to get the pictures I wanted and learnt different techniques on how to take the photo. I learnt how to change the camera settings to make the camera turn black and white to very colourful. Shooting was very easy and different kind of shots gave the photos different affects such as tilting the camera slightly to create an edge of uneasiness and disorientation. After taking the photos I then uploaded them onto my blog and then could start to Photoshop them. Photoshop was a great help and allowed me to make my pictures better and edit things out that I don't want in my picture such as red eyes, Backgrounds and also things that did not fit in the scene. Once I had gotten rid of everything in the photo that I did not want I then went on to add things to the photo which I though was appropriate such as extra lighting or making the scene darker. After making changes to the photos I then could develop my skills that I had learnt in class and though demonstrations by the teachers to start to construct my magazine. From using the scanner I knew exactly where I wanted things to go in my magazine so I knew what parts of my picture would be covered. Most of my pictures were quite central so I did not have this problem. I then could edit in backgrounds and effects to the magazine. I used the codes of conventions in my magazine so this had an effect on my decision making because I needed to my magazine not to look identical but have the similarities of other magazines such as a front cover with a Masthead. All the way though producing my magazine I had to think of how the use of Digital technologies could help me with my decision making as I knew that I could always improve on my work with the skills I had learnt with Blogger, cameras and Photoshop.