Research:Reflection on the Syllabus
Upon reading the Cambridge International AS and A level Media Studies 9607 syllabus I was able to understand and learn what this course would consist of. Media has become part of this generation's daily part of life, so although I have no prior experience with learning about the depth that goes into media,I do have experience using and watching media daily.
Three aspects that I am looking forward to in this course is being able to learn the depth of media and how and why media is produced or projected in a certain way. I would like to know how, for example, movies or social media platforms create their products with a means of capturing the audience and using different strategies to do so. I am also looking forward to producing my own type of media like the movie introduction as well as the blog and being able to analyze and deconstruct media to better understand what is being presented.
Three aspects of the course that I am most nervous about is having enough to say in all my blog entries. I am also nervous about memorizing or understanding some of the reasons behind how and why the media produces things in a certain way, as well as making the film introduction as best produced as possible. In this course I hope to gain an understanding of how diverse types of media use their resources and power to produce and distribute something that can affect the lives of people, whether it is a movie, television show, music, social media or so many other types of media that have become a regular concept in our lives.
- How does your product use or challenge conventions and how does it represent social groups or issues?
- How does your product engage with audiences and how would it be distributed as a real media text?
- How did your production skills develop throughout this project?
- How did you integrate technologies -software, hardware and online- in this project?
