Personal Statement
- I am currently a year 12 student studying Sociology, Business Studies, Law and Media Studies
As Levels at sixth form. I chose those subjects in particular because
they each have no similarities and I enjoy learning different things.
I also chose those subjects specifically, because I like to challenge
myself to see areas of my strengths and weaknesses and what I can be
capable of doing. I could consider myself as being a fairly confident
and an ambitious individual. This is because I was raised up as a
determined and motivated young lady who always wants to strive for
the best at what I enjoy doing. I am a tactful and friendly person
who loves to meet and socialise with new people. I enjoy taking risks
because you just never know how some important decisions you make
could just change your life at a later stage. I also cope well under
pressure especially, when I am doing work that need to meet close deadlines.
Additionally, I am a fun, outgoing person and take interest in the
development of things such as new technologies, reading magazines and
watching movies.
- Firstly, I developed my
team-working skills through a project in Media where we were put
into groups with people in our class that we are not particularly
familiar with and had produce a 10-minute film with them. I feel as
though it was a good idea for us to be put into groups instead of
choosing our friends because it is was good opportunity for us to
learn how to work with anyone. This is because when working in the
future, I could possibly be working with people I don't know and
people I may not particularly want to work with and this project
indirectly helped me develop effective communication skills with the
members on my team. I feel as though I worked with them to the best
of my ability by helping them with their work and being innovative
by sharing my ideas with them in order to complete the tasks and
meet the deadlines. I kept a constant reminder to myself that
effective team-working is key because together everyone achieves
more. Furthermore, I developed skills of independence, in the first
few months of year 12, when I realised that As levels was a huge
step from GCSEs and you cannot rely too much on the teacher. You
would have to be a responsible young adult by doing research outside
school and making sure you meet deadlines in order to be organised
and not have a heavy work load. Additionally,
I gained my independent skills when were all given the opportunity
to produce our very own 1-min crossroad. In this project, we had to
produce all the necessary documents ourself; these include the
script, call-sheet, character description etc. This illustrates my
independence because I worked by my self according to the notes I
took in class, made sure I did some research at home and ensured
that my documents were completed before the deadline. This also
shows that I am self-motivated and cope well under pressure. Our 1-Min
Crossroad project has also helped me gain organisational skills
because you would have to be able to prioritise your work load;
making sure that you don’t get work muddled up or produce
unnecessary documents. By doing so, I had to be attentive in class
and focused. I ensured some work was done at home and sometimes
stay behind in class by myself to finish my work if need be.
- In
the future, I’d like to become a Creative Director. Firstly, this
aspiration developed through my experiences with Media Studies in
year 11 when I had chosen it for GCSE. During this time, we looked at
different types of magazine covers and the connotations and
denotations that come with it. We was also given the opportunity to
create a magazine cover ourselves which I really enjoyed. I enjoyed
creating my own magazine cover because we made all the decisions
ourselves; for instance the central image, the colours/colour scheme,
the target audience, the layout,the font etc. This helped me develop
creativity, think outside the box and come up with good ideas in
order for my magazine to stand out. Moreover, we looked at posters
and advertisements and annotated them by looking at the reasons why
the institute intentionally added some things to it and the
denotations associated with it. Additionally, In year 11, we had the
opportunity to create a music video and in B-tec media (year 12) we
also got into groups and created a 10-min video and a 1-min crossroad
by ourselves. Creative
Directors design concepts to meet a company’s marketing objectives
and advance the company’s brand and it is their job to determine
the best way to visually present a company’s identity. I feel as
though I would be able to do this effectively because creating
these videos enabled me to be innovative and share ideas with members
of my group which I would be able to do with members of that
department. Examples
of the creative job role includes costume designing, designing props,
make-up and making creative, artistic decisions. Such tasks would be
of ease to me because of the experiences i've had with media studies
in year 11 and 12.
- There
are various activities I have been involved with outside the academic
course i've taken. Firstly, I am part of the youth at my church in
which we perform in other churches around london. Moreover, I am the
leader my youth choir which takes a lot of organisational skills.
For instance, doing the register when we all meet, sorting out the
location of where we meet and at what times, where it is going to
take place, the transport and the dress-code etc. Furthermore,
in secondary school, I was part of the student council in which we
were given the opportunity to mentor pupils in the younger years who
had problems or were facing difficult and challenging situations. We
were giving them advice and encouraging them and making solutions.
- I
am self-motivated confident and hardworking individual who enjoys
working in a team or alone using initiative. I am enthusiastic about
learning new skills and building on various experiences.
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