Music Video Project

As a part of my A2 Media Coursework we were tasked with creating a music video. After months of hard work we finally completed our music video and all the tasks which accompanied it.

Here is the final music video which I filmed and edited:

Music Video Digipak

This was an interesting project for me to do as I had never done anything like it before. We had to design six images which would feature as a booklet in our artist's CD.

Baddow Aid Project

To help raise money for Syrian refugees, some members of our class, including myself, took up the cause and decided to create our own version of the Band Aid music video.
This took months to organise with our school and our Head teacher because we wanted to raise funds at school through cake sales and raffles and so had to work hard to get our fundraising approved.

I took a more prominent role in the fundraising element of the process rather than the video itself and helped to raise of £1,000 for GlobalGiving UK. I supported the cause by representing our efforts in assemblies and by editing together a video showing the reasons behind the Syrian refugee crisis and why we wanted, and needed, to help.
The video I edited can be seen below as well as the final Baddow Aid single we created:

Website

As a part of our media coursework, we had to create a website for our artist. I created and designed the website, which I am very proud of as it took a lot of time to perfect.

Here is the link to the website I created:

http://iamivoryofficial.wixsite.com/iamivory

BFI Nomination and Trip

In 2016, my group were nominated for the BFI's MediaMag Award for our film opening. This was a great honour and meant a lot to us. We all went to the BFI at the Southbank in London for the awards ceremony and got to watch our film opening on their professional, cinema screen. Unfortunately we did not win but we did make it as a finalist which was incredible to say the least.





























Here is my group with our certificates saying that we were finalists:

Film Opening

Here is a film opening I created as a part of my AS Media Studies Coursework.

Film Review: The Big Short

The Big Short Review

This sharp, witty but harrowing re-telling of the 2007-8 US housing market crash is not only informative but includes some incredible performances by Christian Bale and Steve Carell. Michael Burry, played exquisitely by Christian Bale, is a socially-challenged hedge fund manager who was responsible for the credit default swaps that aided him (and others) in “shorting” the housing market. Christian Bale’s astonishing performance as this awkward personality has earned him both a Golden Globe nomination and an Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actor. 

Due to the nature of the narrative, the film includes some extremely technical and confusing language relating to Wall Street and the housing market, so I can guarantee that everyone who watched this film, including myself, had no idea what a CDO (Collateralized Debt Obligation) or a Triple A rated bond was. The film played on the audience’s lack of financial knowledge and addressed this in a comical and unique way. Using famous celebrity cameos such as Selena Gomez and Margot Robbie, Adam Mckay, who has directed films like Step Brothers and Anchorman, was able to avoid excluding a large majority of the film’s audience by breaking down these tricky terms into concepts which the everyday viewer could grasp.

This film was comical, interesting and is overall an Oscar-worthy film. Adam Mckay’s vision resulted in this film being one of the stand out motion pictures of 2016 so far and so I have high hopes for upcoming Academy success.