Why Media Studies?

I chose Media Studies because I had done it for my GCSE and found that it was really interesting.

I found that GCSE work was rather laid back in my own opinion however I left most things until the last minute before completing. This meant that when I thought I had finished my GCSE work, I had to redo it to gain a higher grade which I was happy to achieve. After a lot of last minute work I was able to gain a B.

I thought that it would be a nice contrast to my academic subjects and that I would excel. It will be a challenge to do some of the work as it all new to me, for example editing but it shall be interesting to work out.

I have a creative side to my knowledge but I can barely draw unless spending hours and hours concentrating. This year we had to analyse the conventions and notice the small things that happened so we were able to comment on them.

I have thought about the range of knowledge that I would gain from this A-Level and found that I would be able to understand the different elements of a film and understand them more.

I am now in Year 13 and completing the work for this year however due to lack of focus last year I was unable to achieve a respectable grade in my coursework which is the reason I am redoing and will be even more focused.