Over the course of the past few weeks i have learnt a great number of things about media studies in general and about more specific items within media studies.

The first thing i learnt about is story boarding. Essentially a story board is a sequence of pictures that are used to describe narrative flow in the film. It is also used to show where the camera is pointing and to show the movement of a camera in a scene. For example if in the picture a panning shot is used then an arrow along the bottom will depict the direction of the camera's movement. After learning about the basics of storyboarding we decided to put it into practice. We were given a task to create a two minute short film and we drew up a storyboard for that. At the side of each picture, which describe how the story flows, a short amount of dialogue is written so that other elements to the scene that aren't visible in the picture, are shown; For example a piece of music or sound effect.

After learning how to create a story board we were taught how to use a camera and tripod and how to create different "shots". We learnt how to create long shots, mid shots, close ups and also different techniques such as shot reverse shots, the 180 degree rule and others.
After we had finished filming our two minute short film and began editing the film in Final Cut Pro. We  looked up some tutorials and learnt how to cut clips together, crop clips, create fades, sounds effects, add in music and many more.
Finally after all this work we produced our finished product;