Shiima Sharif Year 12 AS Media Studies - My Media Summer

My Media Summer!

During the summer, I watched many films. Movies played a big part in making my summer entertaining. Out of all the movies I have watched, I mainly enjoyed these three movies:

“The hills have eyes” 2006 broadcast on Film four, is a horror/thriller. This was a brilliant movie as it was scary, which was what I enjoyed about the movie as that is the aim of it, since it was meant ‘to scare/frighten/make people jump’, and it did exactly that. I also enjoyed watching the movie, as you would see something very quickly like a shadow, or have a sense that someone/something is watching you; however you would not get the full picture of it.

“Saw V”, which was another horror/thriller movie but it also had crime. I like all the “Saw Movies”, however Saw V was slightly different. I enjoyed the fact that you had to think and watch the movie with all your attention to understand what’s going on. The storyline, in my opinion is fantastic, I absolutely loved the fact that one of the detective in this “Saw movie” was actually behind all the “Jigsaw murders”. My favourite line in the movie was when the character jigsaw (john Kramer) stated that he was not actually committing a crime and he did not kill them, but he gave them a chance as the victims had to be selfless for all of them to survive. This movie appealed to me due to the fact that it had crime, which is something I’m very interested in, also because of the way the people in the movie was killed was very different and extraordinary.

- “College”, was an amazing comedy movie. The comedy in this movie was superb. It is about three high school students that go to a college campus as fresher’s, however throughout there stay they go to parties and do what the usual stereotypical teenagers do, ‘drink, take drugs, and have sex’. The movie is mainly aimed at a teenage audience as they find most if not all the movie amusing. The comedy in the movie is what appealed to me mostly.

In the summer I also watched a few TV programmes. I have been watching “The Hills”, broadcast on MTV. I have been catching up with the episode as the new series will be out soon. This TV programme appeals to me as I enjoy reality TV.

I have also been watching the new series of “Ugly Betty” broadcast on channel 4.

There were many songs that I enjoyed listening during the summer, yet the two songs that I was so addicted to are:
- ‘Run this town- Jay Z, Rhianna, Kanye west’, the reason I like this song, was because of the was a range of different vocals, also the beat of the music made me like this song. I loved the way the three artists came together to make the song and be in "Jay-Z's" new album “Blueprint 3”, I have already downloaded a few songs from this album from iTunes.

Another artist which I like is Peter Andre. He’s new single “Behind closed doors” is a great comeback to the music industry. I have also downloaded this song. I will buy his album “Revelation” when it comes out on the 14^th September.