Year 13: A2 Media Coursework

For A2 media, I had to create either a film trailer, music video or a documentry to which I chose the film trailer; and for the two preliminary tasks, a front cover of a magazine and a poster to advertise the film. I chose a romantic genre, naming the film 'Dear Lucy' as looking at films such as 'Dear John', 'The Notebook' and 'One Day' appealed to me the most.

From a year of experience using the software and programmes, I was a lot more organised for this piece and so the coursework was a lot better quality, in which I ended up getting graded for the coursework an A.

We yet again used the Nikon but this time to film scenes as well as taking pictures.

I also done the models hair, make-up and costume design for the photo shoot this time in comparison to last years photo shoot where by I let the models choose make-up and outfits for the magazine shoot.

For the preliminary task I researched and compared mine to real media magazines to get a better quality look for the magazine, picking out such things as a simple layout and consistent colour scheme to make it look less messy and less complicated, only using one picture to keep the simple theme within the piece.

This is the finished product of my preliminary task - magazine front cover:

The editing software for the front cover was definately easier to use as I had past experience and I planned the task better than I did before so I knew what I wanted it exactly to look like.

As you can see, I simply blended these three pictures and removed the background from the main picture so it was effectively professional

This was the end product:

This is my practice picture before I started using the original picture in the poster above

The editing side of the coursework is what I most excelled in within the last year of the media course and enjoyed creating the three pieces of coursework :)

My A2 Media coursework blog: http://samsophienicolemedia.blogspot.co.uk/