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We recently finished making a movie trailer and teaser for our distribution lesson. In this project, we were put into groups and assigned three stories that students from the creative writing class had made. The stories we got were...questionable to say the least, but we made the best out of it in the 10 days of production.

Along with the trailer and teaser, we had to make a real distribution plan for the hypothetical movie we would make. Red Thread was the story we chose, a coming of age narrative where a girl wakes up one day and has a red string tied to her pinky that leads to her soulmate. See the distribution plan and final project for yourself in the link below. I am honestly very proud of what we made, but I'm not sure I would want to watch this movie if it was real.

Red Thread Distribution Plan and Trailers

As that wraps up, we begin the landmark project of media studies: The portfolio project.

For context, the portfolio project is one of the components of the final Aice evaluation, a long-term commitment to a single production with various elements to it, one video, one digital, and one print. The fun part is that we get to pick what we want to make. This, to me (the most indecisive person in the world), is also the most terrifying part. Finishing the trailer and teaser means that we have technically practiced doing every element of the Media Studies A-level portfolio project:

• Music Video
• Movie Trailer
• Documentary
• Short Film

Now it's just time to pick which one I will be devoting the next 9 weeks to making.