My prior knowledge

• Over the years I have watched a vast range of children’s TV – Dora the Explorer to Waterloo Road
• Focused my studies on TV drama in year 12 (conventions)
• Very basic creations of a magazine in lower school
• Watched and analysed TV drama throughout year 12 for my AS level exam

Year 12 coursework

Unfortunately I did not get the opportunity to take Media Studies as one of my GCSE options so when I decided to choose it as one of my A-Levels I was pleased to find out that the course involved coursework. Our Year 12 coursework task was to complete an opening title sequence to a film and our research, planning and general progress to our final product was recorded on www.blogger.com.

This following year’s coursework will also be recorded on www.blogger.com which is great because I believe my prior knowledge (from Year 12) will help me in the process. 

 

Evidence of my Year 12 blog:

http://meganedwardsmedia.blogspot.co.uk/

"Megan Edwards: AS Media”

 

Following on from this my Year 12 coursework also involved filming and editing. To edit our footage we used Final Cut Pro X, by having prior knowledge of this I will feel much more comfortable and confident when it comes to editing my footage this year for my Teen Drama title sequence.

Evidence of my editing and filming skills:

http://meganedwardsmedia.blogspot.co.uk/

“Megan Edwards: AS Media 

 

Finally, another task in my Year 12 coursework was to use my analytical skills. An example of when I did this was when I analysed ‘We Were Soldiers’ opening sequence, in my written report I used a lot of media language and terminology. This will help me this year when I have to analyse more Teen Drama opening sequence’s and, for my two ancillary tasks, analysing magazine and DVD front covers.

Evidence of my analytical skills:
http://meganedwardsmedia.blogspot.co.uk/
“Megan Edwards: AS Media”