Media
Studies Review
What
have I learned from media studies?
-Media
studies has tough me many new skills in order to break down a piece
media (i.e. video clip etc) and examine different ways that the
producers, director, costume people have used lighting and camera,
sound, colour and outfit to enhance/ add to the scene.
For
example, in the Titanic clip that we viewed in one of our lessons,
rose wears white clothes and gloves; indicating that she is pure and
better that the lower classes, she is also shown in the light which
again is another indication of her importance and purity, wealth etc.
My
strengths:
This
has been my first school term studying media studies; I have found
media to be very challenging and demanding at times however I have
managed to get my work due in on time and I also have tried to stay
on top of my work.
I
would say that my strongest point in media would be the analysation
of video clip and deciphering the hidden messages (what certain
things mean/ the context that they are presented) I have some very
strong ideas when analysing a piece of media, and I would most
definitely say this is what I am strongest at!
My
weakness's:
As
I am new to studying media, I have found it difficult at times to
understand important key terms i.e. iconography, semiotics, iconic
signs, indexical signs etc. I have also found it quite difficult to
grasp the task of essay writing, when writing my essays I have found
it rather difficult to include how the key terms effect the overall
product in a piece of media, this is because I was struggling to
understand all of the different terminology that we are required to
learn in order to progress further in my media work. Blogging is
another thing that I really need to improve on as I am not blogging
regularly, which is making more work for myself that is unnecessary.
Targets
to improve?
Things
that I am going to try extremely hard to improve on is my essay
writing, to do this I am going to make a great effort to do as many
practice essays and hand them to the teacher to get them marked and
then read their feedback and learn from the things that I perhaps
have done wrong and things that I did not include. Another thing I am
going to do is revise my key terminology, this will very much come in
handy to help to improve my essay writing. I am also going to try and
blog more regularly instead of doing it in big chunks because I think
it will lift a big weight off of my shoulders.
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