Media Studies is a subject I have always had great interest in. My brother took it when he was in school and I was always wanted to help him with his work and I was taught how to use programs such as Final Cut Pro/Express along the way. From the very moment we had to start thinking about our A level options, Media Studies was the only subject I was one hundred percent certain I wanted to take. I carried this out as I wanted to enhance my knowledge the the entire media world.
AS
The first practical task we had was to create a video including basic shots and it also had to include at least one use of a matched cut and the 180 degree rule, the purpose of this was to prepare us and give us practice for our thriller opening we had to make for our main task. The clip had to be of a person walking through a door, sitting down and having a two person conversation. We included basic shots such as high and low angle shots, close ups, establishing shots and a matched cut, despite these being basic shots they re also very common in the media worl for films or television programmes. It was good practice for us as we would be using the shots in our thriller opening.
I learnt a lot from this task as i realised its not just about the indivual shots but the positioning of them, taking the background into acount, how much you show of the actor/actress, the mise en scene (costume, props, etc). Without each of these being taken into account, the shots would be low quality
look unprofessional. The use of purposefully not showing a characters face of even body worked very well in our preliminary task and we carried it out in our proper opening to a thriller. Overall I believe that our main task of creating theopening to a thriller would not have been as good without the experience and knowledge learn from the preliminary task as it made us realise how much effort needed to be put in for the main task. Below is our finished version of our main A2 task.
A2
For our A2 practical task we have to create our own music video. For the preliminary task we had to recreate a famous music video. My group decided we were going to recreate Eminem's music video 'Lose Yourself'. Since our last preliminary task I have learnt a lot of new skills and knowledge of the subject and used them in the planning and creation of the video. For our task we used a plan of each of our indivual shots and this helped us a lot when it came to the filming as we knew exactly what shots to do and when to do them. We thought about the location, lighting, tinting, clothing and different shots and together agreed on which were the most like the video.
I believe that in the short amount of time we had to film and put the video together the final product was very good. We chose Eminem's video as the location wasnt too hard to film in and we could recreate his imagine using costumes and props. The tinting of the video gave it more character, the slight green tint over the dark light gave a gloomy depressing feel however the slight orangey red tint gave a slight anger feel. The tinting was a skill i had only learnt during A2 and wouldve struggled to use in my AS coursework. Overall I beleive that our shots from our A2 preliminary were a lot more clear, steady and suitable compared to our AS preliminary, this was down to our experience of the subject compared to last year. Also this year we did not waste any time with the editing as we knew how to use the editing software and what we needed to do with it. Although the lip syncing was something that was new to us so that slowed us down a little.
My Good and Bad points
I believe that my strongest quality is definatly editing, I have been in charge of editing for each of the videos we have created and was happy with the overall outcome of all of them. I like to take charge of the group and try and make sure everybody is doing something to contribute towards the group, e.g. research or planning. I also listen and try to intertwine my ideas with others from the group however can become a little to attched to an idea and be reluctant to change it despite knowing the difficulty of the task. Also I believe that i do not use as many technical terms as i should do and it is something i need to improve on if I am to get a good grade in our A2 coursework.
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