AS Media

Since now we have finished our AS media studies course and are now moving into the second year and into the A2 standard we can now look back at our year and see improvements we could have made to the coursework we completed whether it was our prelim or our final piece.

Our Preliminary task we completed at the start of the year for AS was a short film dealing with a scene from a detective or sort of agent genre of film and we portrayed a man working for the government and him having to fulfil tasks set by his boss and superior. He was set a task to complete by bringing someone in to justice however the agent argued the fact that the suspect was a changed person and had fallen for the man.

There were plenty of improvements we could have made to this task and if we were to do a preliminary task again i feel we would probably set a different idea all together due to the poor story line, effort, and acting which made up the short movie. we chose to insert music to the very first shot which was a poor decision which we improved from in our final AS coursework. we have learned during the process of making our project that the need to go over the top when creating a project and that if you can put a piece together and edit it to look professional without the need of unrelated music choices which is where we went poorly wrong in our Prelim.

Our final piece acquired a grade of an A, which i feel was a very respectable grade for our piece. I feel this because i notice quite a few improvements around the piece that should have been made at times and i notice a few continuity errors and sometimes there were moments within the products that looked poor because of small details.

Overall i feel that last year in AS Media was a good year with plenty of improvements made to the skills i had and the new skills i learned throughout the year.