Why I chose Media Studies

Media Studies

Why I chose media

I currently intend to go to university and hopefully by doing well in media studies, I will receive more UCAS points that will give me an advantage over other candidates that also want to go university. Therefore, giving me more of a chance of going to university and university of choice. Also, I am hoping that by developing more skills that you cannot develop in my other subjects. I will be able to more confidence in myself which will benefit me even after university.

I chose media studies because it is a strong passion of mine and would like to develop more skills so one day I will have more confidence in using different kinds of media platforms, such as, Facebook, Snapchat and Instagram. Another skill that I would like to take out of this course is to evaluate different types of media, such as, films, music and magazines. By developing this skill, I would like to see why this type of media was produced and the effect of it. Social media is used a lot these days. I tend to contact my friends this way so this will be interesting to learn more about the technology used.

                                                                                 

The Internet allows you to access to more or less anything, for shopping, general information and research which can be used like encyclopaedia.

I currently have an interest in YouTube which is a type of media platform. This type of media involves YouTubers creating short videos that is uploaded to YouTube. I have an interest in YouTube because it entertains me as well as giving me valuable information. The skills I can take off this course will be vital as it can introduce camera work to me, which I have very little knowledge in. By doing this it might give me an inspiration to one-day start uploading short videos on to YouTube.

On a day to day basis I have a big interaction with media through different types of media. The first type of media I first encounter is radio. This is very instant, current, informative and entertaining. We always have the radio on in the house and on in the car, so by learning more about radio would be very interesting.

Films are my favourite type of media and I will be looking to hopefully at the end of the course to look at the purpose of the film and see what skills are needed behind the scenes in order to produce a film. For example, camera work and editing.

Magazines / Newspapers I will be able to assess the purpose of the magazine or newspaper to look at the different types of themes and colours are used to create different effects on the readers, probably up until now I have never really thought much about what happens to go into publication.