How have i developed my skills for AS to A2

Looking back to the beginning of year 12 i can clearly see that i did not have a great understanding on how to use technologies such as: pinnacle, photoshop, edirol and a video camera. In year 12 when we were asked to make an opening 2 minutes of a thriller film, we were thrown into the deep end not knowing cleary how to use these products. Throughout the project we started to develop our skills in using these products and it then became a little clearer. We were taught each of the camera shots such as: close ups, Mid length, Long shot, Panning, Tracking & over the shoulder shot. We started to use these in our opening of the film but it wasn't that successful keeping continuity. Another thing we got taught was about institutions and how they help with the financial part of film making. Before doing this is year 12 I did not have any idea about all these different things. 

Now in year 13 I feel that I have developed all of these skills. When editing in pinnacle we knew exactly how to edit, add music, sound effects, captions and transitions easily.  Also with our filming we have became a lot less shakier with the camera and planned out what we wanted to do in detail that it looked good as a final product. Our continuity this year also worked out better which helped the trailer flow. By researching into other Rom-coms this helped us with our ideas and showed us how to keep to the conventions of a Rom-com trailer. Overall I feel that at the end of year 13 I have learned many skills on filming and editing which I did not fully understand 2 years ago.