Media Studies Round-Up written by the BBC Young Reporters

We have had such an exciting year as BBC Young Reporters in the Media Studies Department! At the start of the year we wrote, developed and recorded our very own podcast about Children’s Mental Health Week. We learnt how to use the audio equipment and discovered what it takes to edit audio and images on Premiere Pro.

As part of this we got to practice our interview skills by interviewing our head of year Mr Van Gelder and other students in the Wellness Club.

Shortly after this we visited a media related industry careers event at the UCL Pearl located at the Eastbrook Studios in Dagenham. Industry professionals taught us all about all the different jobs available to us in the film industry and we even got to play around with some of the equipment!

We then moved on to take part in the BBC Young Reporters Competition where we had to design an idea for an article about what makes us special. We wrote about how significant our borough is and how special our school is as we will become one of the biggest schools in the UK.

Our favourite event of the year was the Industry Professional Talk the Media Department organised with London based post-production house The Assembly Rooms. Here we got to interview the guests, film and photograph the day and take part in the talks and demonstrations. We learnt how essential the editing process is and are now using these new-found skills to edit together our coverage of the event.

We have also taken part in an in-house competition to create our own stop motion cartoons which was great fun!

The skills and experiences we have learnt in BBC Young Reporters will help build our careers and confidence in the future. This club is great fun and if you would like to find out more come and find us in the Media Department.

Written by Kamilah, Afifa and Zaynah, Year 7

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