Hello Again (new school year)

After a brief break, here we are again. I feel ready for another year of Media Studies, though the difficulty will undoubtedly increase throughout the next few months. I am aware of the fact that I will have to review last year's theory and acquire lots of new knowledge in order to thrive, but some rewards are in the way, like the filming of a music video to which I am particularly looking forward to. 

Apart from the actual shooting process, which will be much more complex and industry-orientated than the opening sequence, me and my future group will use what we know about marketing campaigns, cross-media convergence and synergy to conduct an effective music campaign including a website and an LP for our "artists" and their "debut album". Of course, we will use other students as performers, who will lipsync a song of our choice which has to be fairly known but not too popular. If it was, people would immediately identify that they are not the real singers. Moreover, we would be in higher risk of having our clip taken down of Youtube due to copyright.

I am excited to start to think about possible artists and songs to utilise for this huge project which will definately be one of the highlights of the course. I am confident that I will be prolific and I will use everything I have learned this year to improve.

My blog has taught me to be organised and disciplined, and I have realised that creativity is key to attract visitors and potentially achieve good marks. I feel like I could have taken more audiovisual initiatives, though overall I know that I have worked very hard to get everything done and document all my journey. Recording all the practical work is very useful to review and internalise the knowledge acquired; that is probably the main advantage of keeping a blog.

For next year, my objective is simply to keep working as hard as before and be consistent with my writing and the inclusion of interesting clips and images to accompany it in the most compelling way. I just want to be a clear communicator both for myself and for the rest of the people.