Hello and Welcome!

Hey, how's it going. The name is Sam Thompson, and I'm a student at Walton High School, studying Media Studies at Sixth Form A level. That's probably the very reason you were able to find this blog in the first place, unless you were deliberately searching for it. Because, though I have zero previous experience with blogs, one requirement is that I need to create one and detail my progress and work for this subject within it.

So get ready for hearing a lot about Media Studies, and not much else. I'll also need to be more factual than fun with my posts, because, although I really want to, I don't think you get marks for adding humour in your work, no matter how good it is, so it may get a bit boring from here on out.

Either way, there will be two central topics that I will cover in this blog; one for each year of doing this course. This first topic will be a topic that, when I heard about it, I was really sensitive and scared about covering, but also interested personally in learning about.

This was very new territory for me, since I'm not good at digesting this kind of thing, particularly the more violent and especially graphic ones, and have very little previous experience with them. It was however territory I needed to enter to get a satisfiable grade so I thought, how bad can they be (Don't answer that by the way, cause I'd really rather not know), and sheepishly made my way into it.

Think of me as an explorer, and think of these posts as my documenting of my finds, as I spend time in this dangerous place. Some of it will be facts and research, other parts will be my own projects and my own experience with this topic, and other parts will be things such as movie trailers that may be familiar or unfamiliar. I hope by the end of this first topic I have done a significant amount of work to get a good understanding of this genre, and its place in the media, so welcome to my Media Studies blog, and the first topic I need to cover:

The Thriller Genre of Films: