This is a Preliminary from last years Media Studies group. I have watched this so that I can see what I will be doing in the next few lessons and to also get some ideas of what I might like to do for mine. I think this clip is very funny and I am looking forward to filming my own Preliminary Exercise.

This is a clip that shows parts of the movie The Black Swan. Natalie Portman shows great acting skills and I think this clip really shows her at her best.

This is a clip of a scene from Pirates of the Carribean which is one of my favourite parts of the movie! It also shows why I like the two actors, Johnny Depp and Orlando Bloom.

My two favourite actors are Johnny Depp and Orlando Bloom. This is because Johnny Depp is just such a great actor! His acting skills are so amazing, he is very good at adapting to different character roles. He plays a range of different characters in films but he always manages to pull it off and he is actually really funny. I enjoy the films he is in and I think he's great at what he does. Orlando Bloom is another one of my favourite actors because I enjoy all the movies he is in. I love the characters Orlando Bloom plays in Lord of the Rings and Pirates of the Carribean. My favourite actress is Natalie Portman. I've loved her every since I was little. I l loved her character in Stars Wars and The Black Swan was just amazing. She is a great actress and she won an Oscar for best actress in 2011.

Harry Potter Deathly Hallows Part 1 and 2 are my favourite films. I love all of the films but the last two have to be the best! I love the scenery used, the animations that have been used throughout (Hogwarts, and certain scenes) and also the storyline is brilliant. All of the movies are full of great techniques that give some scenes amazing effects.

One of my favourite movie lines has to be from Mean Girls - "one time she punched me in the face.. it was awesome." This movie line always makes me laugh and Mean Girls is just full of really funny lines throughout.

The new John Lewis advert is amazing. I've seen it on my tv for the past week and I just never get bored of it. I think the whole idea is very clever, I love the song, I think it fits in really well with the theme of the advert and I love that there is a split screen which just fits together really well. I also really like the message that they are trying to give through the advert, what's important, doesn't change. I think the advert has been well put together and the contrast shown between the two different lifestyle's has been presented very well which I believe is down to the use of the splitscreen.

ECS as and A2 Media Studies Course Booklet This is a Media Studies Course Booklet which will be very useful to me over the next two years as it tells me what I need to do in order to achieve a good grade at AS and A2.

This is a video that I think is very useful to my media studies as it is a video that gives you the names of different camera angles and camera features and the video also shows an example.