A2 Brief Ideas

For the A2 side of my Media Course, I have been given a selection of design briefs in which I am allowed to choose from as the base of my coursework. After some thought, I decided that I wanted work singularly rather than in a pair or group as I felt it would be easier to get to do exactly what I wanted even if it meant more work has to be done on my part. I analysed the selection of briefs and found that the main two the caught my attention were the music video and the short film. Again I looked over these two options and searched up some past exemplar work on YouTube before deciding that I wanted to do a music video. However I do not want to do just any old mainstream song, I am a big believer in promoting artists who do not get the same recognition as the artists who currently dominate the charts. Therefore I would like to look into songs I enjoy listening too and that I can provide an adequate music video for. Below are some of the songs I want to try and base my music video around:

AS Overview

As part of my Media A Level course, I had to do an opening sequence in a group with two other people. This was also my AS Media Production. The whole project was in my eyes a huge improvement from when our group did a preliminary task to get to learn about some of the key aspects in making a film which included camera movement, editing and script and storyboard writing. Below is a video showing my group's final piece that was sent to examination to be marked.

The Boy Whose Skin Fell Off Analysis

The other day in class, we watched a documentary called "The Boy Whose Skin Fell Off". The documentary was all about a boy called Jonny Kennedy who has lived his entire life with a very severe and rare disease which causes his skin to fall off and for him to find everyday life very difficult to cope with. The documentary showed the last few months of Jonny's life before he sadly passed away from skin cancer which had been brought on by his illness. The documentary showed how Jonny lead his life in his final months and how he tried to make the most of the little time he had by doing activities such as skydiving, setting up a charity, visiting different areas of the UK etc.

The clip to the left illustrates the beginning of the entire of the opening scene to the documentary and gives an insight as to how the condition effects Jonny and how he has to deal with it in every day life.