The First Media Lesson of A Levels.

Dear my wonderful readers,

Here's an insight to what a media studies lessons can be like..

So, starting A levels can be nerve wrecking, especially when your not with your friends. It's like a whole new start. A fresh start. You don't have as many subjects as you did in GCSE's, so you focus more and your teachers expect more from you too, as you're now an adult.
But, on the plus side, it means you're one step closer to becoming what you want!

Personally, I just started A Levels, which is why I'm able to relate to it so well. The subjects that I've chosen are English Lit, Business Studies, French and Media Studies. And that leads me on to talking about my first ever Media Lesson as a sixth former...

Originally, I have two teachers for the subject, both of which I have heard many good things about.
Whoever's reading this, must be thinking why I chose to write about Media Studies and not something like French or English, well, because people usually have a lot of misconception in this subject. They think it's either too hard or too easy. let me put it this way, its definitely harder for you if you didn't do multimedia computing or computing at GCSE's. However, if you did do those subjects, then you have an idea of what Media Studies is like, but that doesn't mean you won't struggle here and there.

In my Media Studies lesson today, my teacher explained what we'll be focusing on, which is films. So during the course of the lesson, we as a class discussed the things that go on before, during and after a film is showed in the cinema hall.
There's things like the development of the film, where the producer actually selects that story he/she will be producing.
Then there's a stage called Pre-production, where the scenes of the film are rehearsed and insurance for everything single thing is purchased. For example, insurance for the actors/actresses', all the people working back stage and all the technical goods.
Next, the actual production of the film is done; so scenes are shot, the actors change into different costumes, and once the film is made, a wrap party is hosted.
After the production, there's a post-production. This is where any music that is needed in the film, is added in, trailers and posters are made, so the movie is promoted well, all the editing is complete and the film is finally locked.
Which means that it's ready to be shown to the world!
The last stage is called distribution, so, the film is released with a launch party and also means that it is allowed to be physically sent to cinema halls, and can be released on DVD.


As you can see in the photo above, an actress is on a red carpet for the launch of her new film.

So, as you can tell, for an hour's worth of lesson, that was a lot of information to take in, but then again, most of it was general knowledge.

As a first lesson, I was quite intrigued and am happy to say that I cannot wait for the future lessons of Media Studies!

I have attached a link of the visual effects behind the movie of "The Avengers", here.

Thank you for reading!