Differences Between AS And A2

When we were first given the task of filming and producing a music video for the song Goodnight, we knew that it wouldn’t be simple when we looked at past videos and blogs. We first noticed the locations used in the music video’s were more elaborate and ranged whereas in the AS filming we focused on filming in one place and used it to are advantage. We also discovered that in AS we had a very definite plan of how the finished piece would look considering we had a storyboard whereas in A2 even though with the privilege of having a storyboard we discovered that we could film anything considering the freedom we were given, so by the end of the piece we had a choice of a vast range of shots that would look good in the video. The original task last year required us to update the blog with are progress etc, whereas with this years task required high quality analysis of things such as, analysis of other music videos, analysis of the equipment we used.

Along with filming a music video we were also given the task of preparing a magazine advert for the single we chose. This was not required for the short film project of last year. Last years project did not require any posts on the blog regarding to influence, whereas this year considering the nature of the task is music related it required us to talk about the music genre we had chosen which is British hip hop,

there were many technical aspects of the production we found different, such as final cut pro was used more professionally, meaning when we were in the editing stages of the AS production it was a fairly simple timeline whereas in the recant A2 production we have noticed the more relevant effects etc have been. this is also the case when we used the studio to film the end sequence of the video, we used 3 studio cameras and a handheld camera on a crane, the cameras were controlled by the me behind the base computer doing live edits to the footage.

It is also true to say that the amount of work is considerably more, such as the need for more work on the blog posts, for example posts such as deeper analysis of the video