A-LEVEL MEDIA STUDIES

Here it is - after a process of editing detailed in Blogpost 11 and Blogpost 13, we've fixed a lot of the problems we had in our rough...

For Question 3 of CCR, I made a short little video using a presentation maker called Powtoon about what I learned throughout the year....

A rough cut is a stage in a film where the film starts to resemble the final product. We showed our rough cut to a large audience of...

Even though I wasn't involved in the filming of the title sequence used for the rough cut, I still made my own title sequence to...

While I wasn't involved with the editing of Untelevised, I think it is important to increase my skills in editing. For this, I have made...

We filmed on the 20th of December, at our acquaintance's house. I arrived at around noon, and everyone filtered in over the next hour. We...

This blogpost details our planning of Untelevised. Our presentation, seen in Blogpost 8, was a major success, so we've decided to go...

Below is our pitch for our film. These are just the initial ideas, so a lot of details can be tweaked and changed as we film. Not much...

To prepare for the big filming project over winter break, our Media Studies class did some preliminary tasks to sharpen our skills and...

To synthesize the things we've learnt so far, we were given the task of analyzing two thriller openings in detail. I chose American...

One important thing in any big film is the title sequence. A title sequence establishes some of the people who worked on the film, while...

Now that we’ve got the basics of filmmaking down, we have to look at something outside film, but still related to it – namely, studios...

You can’t have a story without, well, a story. The analysis of narratives is central to media theory - after all, media tells narratives....

Continuing on into our research into media (specifically films), our class began to focus on theories of genre, specifically regarding...

As an introduction to Media Studies, we first learned about codes and conventions in film. This includes things like technical codes,...