Introduction to A2

The Task for A2
My task this year will is to make a movie trailer for a film, with the two ancillary tasks of a poster for the film and a film magazine front cover featuring the film. I have chosen this as I feel that a trailer best suits me and I haven't done it before so will be a new experience. Also, the two ancillary tasks I have experience with so I will be able to use that when making them as I know what makes them successful and effective.

Reflecting on last years work
Last year I feel that I worked well, but with this experience of blogger, making a short film and a magazine has developed my skills and my work this year will be better because of this. Also, last year I was quite slow to start and I will learn from this and better it this year as I feel that hindered how good my work was last year, as last year I was still doing a lot of the research and planning while I needed to get on with the production part and gave me less time to do it which I feel could have affected how good my magazine looked. Also just in general I know how to work more efficiently because of last years work and this will make this year's much better as I now have more skills and knowledge of media, for example the editing of my evaluation took a long time as I had never used it before but now that I have it will be much quicker meaning I can make it look better and have more time to be used on other parts of the task.

Being media literate
Media literate is having the knowledge and skills to understand and know to create media in all of its forms. Having been a media student for over a year now I feel that I have become media literate and this sets me out from people who are not studying media as I feel that I have more knowledge than them of how to make a product look more professional as I know the forms and conventions of a number of media areas, which they would not have this experience and knowledge.