After doing my first year of Media Studies last year, I found that I enjoyed it and was keen to do another year at A2, particularly after hearing the tasks that were set by the exam board, as they sounded as though they would be interesting to do. Our brief for this years coursework is to create a shot 5 minute film in a genre of our choice, and a poster and radio trailer to go with it or magazine article. We need to continually research and plan throughout this project, not only writing but also drawings and imagery, this all needs to be posted along with our development and progress throughout the project. We must make our blogs as visually pleasing as possible by presenting our work in a creative way, we must also use different medias to post our work, i.e. Sound Cloud, Slideshare and Vimeo. Although this seems like a great amount of work to do, I feel that if I time manage what I'm doing correctly I will keep on top of my work and not struggle to create the finished products.
In this first lesson we discussed the brief set by the exam board for our coursework and exam, so that we are prepared for the tasks that would need to be done throughout the year.
We then started to discuss the first key concept, Media Language. We started to look at the short film 'Smashed' from the BBC film network, analysing it with the technical codes; camera, lighting, setting, characters and props. We also looking into the structure of the film and, discussed why short films are made and/or if they carry message or meaning.
We were then set the task of writing an essay about the film with the title of 'Analyse the short film 'Smashed' applying technical terms.'
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