The Final Word: The Journey

By Swara Shah

Media Studies is a subject which is quite different from others that we take up in the course of A Levels. It allows us to truly, honestly do things our way and add our creativity and personal inputs into every single blog that we put up and every single task that we finish.

This duration of 9 months has taught me so much. Most importantly, I realised the benefits and struggles of working with a partner. We learned how to complete things when the other person couldn’t and how to find an equal balance between the distribution of things. We learned to take up those tasks that we were better at, and allocate the others to our partner.

Furthermore, I realised that it’s not all the time that things go your way, although you may be the director of the film. Our main lead actor backed out, making it very difficult for us to find a good enough replacement. However, when we did find one, he fit perfectly with the song.

It is all the more difficult to create a digipack and a website because that is something which takes ample amounts of creativity and thought behind it. There are so many logistics that one needs to figure out technically, as well as making sure that the original look of the website isn’t ruined or tainted.

While editing, it was so difficult for Chaitra to figure out after effects and match the doodles with the beats of the music, which took hours to complete and render.

The most important lesson was that things won’t always go our way, but what mattered was that we had something that we could call our own from start to finish, and we were extremely extremely proud of it.