Media Studies Coursework Plan

Main Idea

We will be creating 2 newspaper pages on the issue "2012 The Worlds End". We will include the article as a whole plus, images and a music track (we will also provide the link within the paper so the people can hear it themselves. that have been created just for the cause of 2012 that may or may not happen. Their will also be a little funny comic strip about the cause.

A2 Media Studies Coursework

03/12/09

Originally me and my team were doing the brief on 2 T.V advertisements, but now me and my team have came to a conclusion that we want to change the brief to the main task being 2 newspaper pages with these 2 ancillary tasks which are, a poster for the newspaper and a radio advertisement for the newspaper.

Our main idea of the newspaper is to base it on a current story which is the story of 2012 (The Worlds End).

Lesson 3

We have decided to choose a comedy advertisement because we created a tally from the students and the majority chose for us to do a comedy one as it was more on demand. When we do plan for the advertisements we will still include the original structure of the advertisement, for example; still sell a product or service but just in a comical way.

I also researched on advertising, which i got definitions and what the point of an advertisement is and the overall structure. I also researched comedy advertisement and found out the trends, structure and also how it is more of a demand and more liked rather then normal advertisements.

Lesson 2

Today, we chose our brief, which is now the 2 t.v. advertisements alongside a radio advertisement and web pop up. the chosen idea is to advertise something and make it funny, but we have not yet chose the product or service we want to advertise.

Another thing we have been doing is searching on youtube trying to find an idea to do our 2 advertisements on, and we have not found the right idea and have not yet decided.

A2 Media Coursework

What we did today was to choose the groups we wanted to be in and also come up with an idea for our A2 coursework. So my team now consists of me (Vikram Swali), Sunil Mehmi and Parminder Kainth, what we did in this lesson was to choose and plan out a set brief that we will then do for our A2 coursework. We ended up with two choices of brief, one was T.V Advertisements and the other was Two Newspaper Pages. We brainstormed our ideas on each of them, and then we will finally decide on which brief will be chosen as a group.

From AS to A2

I thought overall my AS Media studies coursework was good, but the only bad point i got feedback on was one of the camera shots where we had a shot of a girl in the boys bathroom and you could see the urinals, otherwise everything was good within the film.

By doing the AS Media coursework, i think my skills within media have gone better than before. In terms of me progressing through media studies, i have learned alot of things, and here they are below;

• Camera Shots & Angles
• Mise-En-Scene
• Media Terminology
• Continuity
• TV Drama
• Film Studies
• British Film
• American Film
• Lighting

All of these things listed above i did not know about when i started the course. Now i am one year in i have learnt all these things listed above and more. I have recently sat my AS Media Studies exams, which i personally think went well and didn't struggle. From knowing nothing before on the subject of Media Studies, i now know everything i need to for AS Media Studies & i am currently moving on to A2 which i think is going to be a good experiance and i will devolp my skills even more within media.

AS Media Coursework