Introduction

My name is Tom Sanderson. I am studying A levels at York College. As well as Media I am also studying Engineering, Resistant Materials and Critical Thinking. My other subjects may seem somewhat different to Media as I would like to study Mechanical Engineering at University. The reason I chose to do Media at AS level was because I enjoyed doing it in my English GCSE, going over technical codes, sound, mise en scene etc... all very briefly and then doing a piece of coursework on Dracula. I was never very good at English Literature and Language but did surprisingly well in my Media coursework and wanted to learn more in depth about the subject. I carried on and decided to do A2 Media because the music video sounded lots of fun to do as I have played guitar in a few bands and have always had an interest in music. Media is also very different to my other subjects and is a nice change at times to study something that is not to do with engineering.

I chose  blogger.com to do my project blog on as I did not have to sign up to anything and the user interface looked very simple to use and navigate around as it is my first ever blog. I looked at livejournal.com as well as blogger but the website looked very confusing to navigate around and I had no idea where to begin!.

I will be creating a Music video, digipack and a magazine advert for my A2 Media coursework this year. I will be working in a group with 3 other people to create the music video and will create the digipack and magazine advert by myself. I will update my blog with Resources that have helped me throughout the coursework such as pictures of different locations I could film as well as the work itself. The the whole project will hopefully take me around 14 weeks to complete, I feel this is a comfortable amount of time. Once the music video is completed I will upload it onto youtube so I can get feedback from people all around the world