Introduction to Media studies :)

In our first lesson of media studies we were with Mr Slater and we had to explain why we chose Media Studies.
I wrote "I picked media studies because I have always had an interest in the media and how it all works and i enjoyed the Creative and Media diploma at level 2 and I would like to carry it on at level 3 and maybe university."

Then we went on to looking at our film prefernces. We started off by naming our faveourite film, I chose Rush Hour 3.
Then he showed us the different stages to get deeper into the reason why I picked that film.
So the first one was the film prefernce and then it was the emotional impact, now the emotional impact is which is the feeling and what the film does to you, such as changing your mood or making you see something in a different light or something so amazing that it makes you want to see it again. So for me the emotional impact of Rush Hour 3 is that I find it very funny and i really like the relationship between Chris Tucker and Jackie Chan and it becomes into a bromance and I think that is really special.
Then we went on to the Artistic choices. So this would be behind the scenes and the first ideas so this could be the setting, the characters, the weather and anyother parts to do with the basic design. So for Rush Hour 3 it would be the characters that make it for me because there is such a diversion and then they learn to get along, also I think the places where they are set make the film very good in my opinion such as Paris because they use the real gthing and it makes the film seem so much more realistic.
Adter Artistic choices it goes onto the technical choices. So this is to do with all the fast editing, the green screening, all of the technical side of things and this is prob the thing i am interested in the most because I love technology and the way it all works and I can see it developing in a few years. So in Rush hour 3 all the technical choices are the quick snips of all the action which build up tension, then you have all of the different type of shots like; close up, cut in, wide shot and these are a few that are used in the film. This helps with the film preference because of, in this particular film, all the tension with the action snips that are quick and fast.
Then finally it goes on to the theory. The theory is the reasoning behind all of these. It is the point of doing the film in this case in the first place, so usually it will have a moral or a reason behind it and it will come from the theory.