Group

My wonderful media group (from left) 

- Jessica Seaney, Me, Ashleigh Fearne & Laura Anne-Wynne

Jessica Seaney- Artist and music for our preliminary task, she designed the step by step action by drawing it on the story board, she also designed the music we will use for our task and edited bits of the music.

Me- I edited the whole task after it was filmed using final cut express, any unwanted bits were forgotten and trashed. I made sure all the elements for our preliminary task was there.

Ashleigh Fearne- Filiming the preliminary task.

Laura Anne-Wynne- Came up with the initial idea and what we were going to do as whole, planning the conversation and when the elements had to come in.

Does the media influence society or reflects us?

I believe that the media influences society more than it reflects us. Although the media might write about what society is doing and reports on it, they change it in a way that makes us influence each other more than it reflects us. The decisions that we make daily in life is made by what the media writes, videos or shows to us and other people blame the media for the bad events that happen around the world and the issues in our society today, however no one looks at the big picture and sees that the media is just writing what they see which consequently leads to others reading and watching about it and then copying. For example.: the london riots was all around the media in good ways and bad ways, it influenced other teenagers in social networking sites to be part of the riot by twitter, Facebook and more so if the media was not there then there would not have been a lot of people because the news would not have spread around however people needed to know about the London Riots so they could stay away from it and report on why the London Riot is happening because it's our right to know what is happening, but when the media does try to help us why are they known for influencing others?
It's because they twists the words they say and change the story a little for entertainment purposes, the Milly Dowler case was a shocking discovery of what the media can do and how it can influence others today. Magazines gives us different interpretations of what we can think and evidently it is more negative than positive.

Why I chose AS Media Studies

Often, after I've finished watching a movie and watch the credits role I start thinking. Not the deep philosophical kind of thinking you do in the shower but the kind were you think about the little details and the meaning behind each of the events you had seen in the movie. It's really interesting to know how much effort and key details were put into the movie to make it brilliant but we don't look closely into it when the movie has finished. This is why I chose AS Media Studies. I want to know what makes a brilliant movie, why the director had chosen that particular angle, the hardwork of editing the background music and the different type of genres. I feel like I had missed out a lot when I did not take GCSE Media and I knew that I wanted to take Media for A-Level. I have already learnt a lot during these last two lessons and I want to know more. I'm ready for the consequences of taking AS Media, that by the time I've finished A-Level media I know that every movie I watch from now on will be analysed thoroughly instead of enjoying it but it's worth it.