LAST YEAR MEDIA PROJECT.

AS Media last year was quite different in a way in terms of the two course work I had done and the written exam. What I mean by this is that our media group last year was not serious in the work we produced and this really effected us of what we did in the two course work and our grades. I believe that we could have put more effect I our work and organised our plans in the course works. This year I have thought that our group have to do much better than last year and focus in our all our tasks because last year I noticed that our group was easily distracted and sometimes we didn’t finish our work. We have spoken together as a group that we need to be serious this year and properly work as a team together.

Our media group had many strength and weakness as a group last year. Our strength was that we were able arrange dates and times to do the settings of our thriller movie outside of school hours because this meant that we were able to spend more time on the project and catch up on the time our group had missed out on.

Last year felt exciting for me because I was thinking in my head that I would be watching films, music and many more that got to do with entertainment, and this got me excited to learn this interesting subject. I learnt a lot of different things, for example the Hypodermic needle theory which is how we take media into our mind and that it would be difficult to control it and it is very easy to copy the actions of what he have either watched, heard etc. The other things that I learnt were the video game industry and how they have developed. This topic interested me because it made me see how violent video games can control most people to copy the action which is why I believe that the killing on the streets is based on people practicing on violent video games. The whole class studied this and watched clippings of how to boys killed the whole school just because they played most violent games and practised it.

Our mission was to create a 3 minute thriller movie trailer and edit it. In order for our group to succeed in creating this and doing it well was that we had to plan and structure our work very carefully. We all sat down together discussing how the movie and type would be like, by writing the scripts, drawing storyboard on how the movie would be and writing down the settings of were each of the scenes would be at.
Our weakness that our group had was that there would be times that the whole group would be lazy to do the work and give excuses to leave the work another time. This year we have learnt our lesson that when there is work to do we have to get it done and be consistent at all times. Although we planned the movie scenes I believe that another weakness was that we wasn’t able to create a very good movie all because we left work till the end and was rushing at the end. This year we would organise our self’s and do the work right.

After reviewing on my based performance and the stuff that I'm working today in A Level I think that I can do well and get a better grade. The things that we are learning are the music video and why some of the videos were band in this country. This is very interesting because we analyse the music and look both the lyrics and music video to analyse why it was band the fist place.