So, who am I?

 Hi! I'm Sophie, a rom-com addict who has barely seen any other genre. I really should broaden my horizons, but I'm only entertained by media that has aspects of romance or comedy in it, which will probably reflect over to my media outputs. Most of my media consumption is in the form of Instagram or TikTok- where I'm chronically online on both. I listen to music for most of my day as well, which makes sense with my wide-range of genres I listen to as well as well-versed on. My own media habits were revealed because of this course, and it was shocking to me how much time I spent communicating with friends, even though I spend a majority of my day with them.

Media studies interested me since I wanted to learn about the behind the scenes of movies, how people brainstorm them, know what camera angle to use, why certain movies feel different the more you watch them, and so on. Rom-coms typically don't have a lot of in-depth scenes to delve into, but when I have branched out to watch an action-mystery or two, I never seem to expect the plot twist. In hindsight, it seems so obvious that this was the outcome, but in the moment I was so immersed that I didn't see it. This creative process always seemed so interesting to me since the creator not only creates a plot the consumer is invested in, but makes the outcome seem to obvious, but also so unexpected. I want to learn the techniques to pull this off effectively and that was my main driving force towards entering media studies.