I am a Media Prosumer

This is my collage representing what I interact with on a regular basis. This shows what provides me a source of entertainment, gives me a personal identity, where I gather information from and finally where I interact socially. In my collage many of the platforms are social media websites or viewing apps, where I can watch my favourite shows or influencers.

After creating this collage I’ve understood my genre and the type of person I am a little bit more. Furthermore it shows the ways you can engage an audience and consumers.

This has helped me understand some important traits to make media, how you can engage people in different ways. How the more of these boxes your media ticks, the more audience and interest you will gain. Providing entertainment is good, however it may get boring, therefore adding information that people can gain may re-attract them as they are interested to find out new things which you can provide for them. As well as this if you give a platform where you can interact with others, people will start to use this and it may become their primary way of online interaction with their friends.

Adding more appeal enhances the time people can spend using your media and brings more people to use your media as it has more purpose.

Hello Media Studies

Hello, my name is Ben Acey and I am new to Media Studies. Currently I am not the most skilled Media student, however I am sure I will learn a lot the next couple years to make me a very strong media student. Furthermore many of these skills will be transferrable and I hope to be able to use them in other aspects of life. The skills are as followed;

  • Time management
    • being able to create and organise my blog posts in time and promoting my media as soon as I can
  • Research
    • the ability to break my competition and ensure my work is better, looking at what I can take and what I can use they didn’t to improve my work. Discovering conventional features I will need to know and use throughout my work.
  • Planning Skills
    • ensuring I know what every blog will hold and the different aspects of every blog, keeping on top of my work and ensuring it is as good and well prepared as possible
  • Creative skills
    • Learning how to use computer design features for my magazine and videos, learning all the different tools to create the best magazine possible and learning how to photoshop and make my photos that I take the best they can possibly be and being able to edit them to the best of my ability
  • Transferrable Skills
    • skills i can use in all aspects of life, skills that will not only help me in media but also other subjects and different aspects of life.

Overall these are all skills that will be useful in life, especially media if I want to achieve the best grade I possibly can. I will make sure to use these skills and focus on the use and learning of them while I do my blog posts and media studies tasks.

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