Intro

 My name is Nicole Hernandez. I'm a student at Fort Lauderdale High, and I'm back, excited to be starting A level Media Studies. I took AS Level Media Studies last year. I really like movies so I'm glad to be continuing a class that studies them. Last year, I created a few projects. This year, I will be doing just the one. I will create a short film in its entirety. I will use the skills I learned last year and continue to research to create my film. I will update my journey throughout several blog. It will work much like it did last year, with research and storyboard updates but the blogs will differ a little more, since there is more to get done in  a five minute film than just an intro to a film like I did last year.

 I don't know what my final exam is going to look like quite yet. I do know I will be graded differently in terms of the project, since there is just the one project to get done. Regardless of whether or not I'm writing an essay for A level, I brushed up on my media studies terms recently. I want to be able to know information for my blogs, because I want to be able to describe my film or my ideas for my film in more detail. I have already started watching short films. Notes have been jotted down, about common themes and angles I noticed. Some of these notes will be transferred to some of my other blogs when I go more in depth with research later on. Before that though, I will make my group and pitch blogs. They should come up right after this log, actually. I can only hope this will be my best project of all my projects, and I'm very excited to start working!




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