Reflecting back on the AS year: List of technical skills

Doing the AS Media course gave me the opportunity to broaden my skills, develop a knowledge of software's I have never come across before and understand conventions of film making. Below is the following skills I learnt throughout AS Media Studies:

• The process of a film being made, marketed and distributed
• The significance of particular camera shots and angles, i.e tilting a camera to show status and power
• Health and safety procedures when using the camera and filming. For example it is better to phone someone from the media faculty when there is a problem with the camera, rather than fiddling with it yourself
• Organisation skills and time management. Having to share a limited number of camera among over double the amount of media students meant that, we had to be organised, meet at correct times and have enough time for a 'team talk'. This is not only a skill learnt for media but to carry throughout my life
• Developed my basic knowledge of how to use MAC's 
• Using software's such as Final Cut Pro, LiveType and Soundtrack Pro. Which were the three key software's for editing and adding sound to our film
• Learning how to use other software's and important buttons such as Handbreak, Quicktime Recorder, Importing and exporting clips and sound
• Adding special effects and titles
• Understanding the codes and conventions of a thriller opening i.e birds eye view of an isolated island, the times in which credits appear etc.