Digital Technology Essay
Throughout Year 12 media studies, I used digital technologies in much more limited ways than in Year 13. This is reflected in my choice of editing tools, camera and social media usage. Our first task in Year 12 was to recreate the opening sequence to the 2007 film Juno – this involved attempting to find nearby locations that would resemble the Juno set, finding angles which looked the same and then editing the footage with cuts at the correct times and various effects. While this felt challenging at the time, on reflection it was a minimally challenging task and shows a great contrast to the skills I have now. Shortly after this, we were put into groups and given a set genre of which we had to make a small video - me and my group created a musical parody of High School Musical. I was given the role of filming the majority of the video, which we did so on a Sony Handycam provided by the school. I was also solely given the task of editing the video, which I did on Adobe Pr...