Beginning A2 Media Studies

My First Thoughts 

After arriving back from the summer term and beginning our A2 Media Studies there were a choice of two briefs that were shown to us, one was to create a music video and once was to create a film trailer. The majority of the class chose to create a film trailer as there are more options in terms of developing the narrative/various themes of the film, and by creating a film trailer it would allow us to show and expand our creative minds when planning and creating the film trailer. This brief also includes creating a film magazine front cover and creating a poster for the film. I decided to work in a pair with April as we have good communication skills and respect each other’s ideas and contributions towards our media product. We also share similar interests and are able to raise any concerns with each other if there is anything that we are unsure of or unhappy with. The first decision that we made together as a team was that our media product was going to be targeted at a teenage/young adult audience. We then drew up a list of popular teenage films that were drawn from different teenage film categories such as Teen Drama, Teen Comedy and Teen Romance, and watched a number of trailers from each of the three categories. After watching the trailers we then narrowed our decision down to either making a trailer for a Teen Comedy film or making a trailer for a Teen Drama film.

Having taken A2 Media Studies before in the previous year, I chose the brief to create a local newspaper, along with creating two hyper linked pages for the local newspaper's website and creating a radio advertisement for the newspaper. However, I have chosen to retake A2 Media Studies as I feel that I didn't reach my full potential when creating my media products last year, and feel that this brief will allow me to be more imaginative and creative when creating my media products.