My name is Anish Kumar Dharma and I’m currently studying A-Level Media Studies at Cedar College, Karachi, Pakistan. I’m going to update this blog regularly regarding my progress with my A-Level Media Studies Advanced Portfolio. I believe it’s going to be an exciting journey primarily due to the reason that I did quite well in my AS-Level exams and ended up with great results, which includes media studies as well. I got a B grade, which may not be the best possible grade but I was one of the top scorers from my school in the subject, so I want to keep it up this year as well. Another reason why I am really excited is that I learned a lot about film-making, teamwork, content writing last year when I was working on my Foundation Portfolio, so I want to apply those learned skills this year, and also because I am working alone this time, which could be tougher but I don’t mind taking that challenge.
I believe A-Level Media Studies is the perfect initial step one could take if they want to pursue anything related to media as a profession. I personally want to pursue Film Direction and Editing in the future and I believe those two are the fields I am currently stronger at than other fields, such as writing etc.
I have also gathered quite a bit of experience in the media world, apart from the opening credits sequence I made for my AS-Level Foundation Portfolio. I have been to an art festival held at the Karachi Grammar School, which is one of the leading schools in all of Pakistan. The festival also had a film-making category in which I, along with my team, were the finalists. I have also worked as a freelance videographer for small to medium scale businesses, which were a newly launched restaurant and bakery. I made promotional videos for their social media marketing campaigns.
With that being said, I am really excited to start the year and work on my Advanced Portfolio, hoping I end up learning as much as I did last year, if not more, and that helps me get into a top film school, from where I’ll start my professional film-making journey.
A picture from last year’s shoot, which I was working as a director, director of photography and editor in. The rest of the team handled the writing, set design, makeup etc. 
During the edit process of the same project.
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