This is a drawing of an island which summarizes my AS course experience and how I felt about different things within the course. 

The good experiences of the course are placed on the left hand side of the drawing, where the sun is shinning and there is a palm tree. I drew the sun and palm trees as it symbolizes god things and happy thoughts. This side consists of:

• Creating my own magazine called Love RNB and looking at existing music magazine, such as NME. 
• learning how to use photoshop properly.
• Learning how to use apple Mac computers.
• Doing the photoshoot for my magazine.
• Doing the coursework and blogging up m work on Blogger.

The bad experiences of the course are on the right hand side of the drawing, where its raining, lightening and rough sea. I drew them because it symbolizes the harder and more boring things of the course. This side consists of:

• Doing Exams.
• Meeting all the deadlines.
• Completing homework.

As you can see there are more good experiences than bad, meaning that overall I enjoyed the course and just had to get on with the things I didn't enjoy so much.

Year 13 Media Studies

On our first lesson back we put ourselves into groups of max 5 people and and were given the task to create a short movie between 5-10 mins long. The movie had to be a meeting of any kind whether it be a business meeting, or meeting with a friend etc.

As preparation our homework was to write up a script and draw up a storyboard for the movie. We also had to think about what specific shots were going to be used.

On the second lesson back we were to go off and find a suitable place around the school without disturbing people to film our movie.

We went with what was drawn in the storyboard, using kodak flip film cameras and a tripod to keep the camera steady for clearer shots.

For the first movie my role was to act where I didn't have to worry much about the technical side.

In the second short film I was filming, so therefore I had to think carefully about:

• The type of shot.
• How long the shot will go on for. 
• Carefully position the people within the shots.