Comparing AS to A2

Comparing the AS production to the A2 coursework there is a lot of significant changes. Such the amount of work you have to do in the same amount of time is a lot more than you’d expect, you have to do the music video, blog digi pack and do all of them up to a high standard. Where as in AS all you had to worry about was your video and blog. On the other hand A2 work is however easier because it is fairly straight forward what you have to do, as you have already acquired all the skills you need to produce the video from last year and it’s just the matter of taking it to the next level with the editing and the different approach you go about to do it. In AS what you had to do was film the start of film, it was hard to do because we had never done anything like that before and it was a completely new idea so there was a lot of idea you needed to take in such as the 180 degree rule. One of the main challenges from AS would be getting used to the software final cut pro, it was really complicated when you first use as there is a lot of things you can do with that software e.g. slow down the clips, add effects, filters etc. therefore it took a lot of time compared to A2 to get the editing part done. Another main challenge was coming up with the story board, where as A2 you know what your doing by analyzing different music video AS it was solely based on you and your team as you had to come with your own film, which I personally found quiet hard to do, so there was a lot of planning and research done compared to A2. In A2 our task was to create a music video to the song of our choice. Personally I found this much more exciting and fun to do as there was no limit to what you can’t do. When we was filming AS there was a lot of help from the teacher and therefore there was limits to what we could’ve done as we was always getting opinions on what they thought about it and so. Where as in A2 everything was done by you and the team and teachers didn’t have to help as much, as we already knew everything we need to know. However filming the music video is a lot more challenging than you’d expect. There was lot of time spent on the filming itself and it required a lot of planning and research, such as the locations, how to get people there, any additional actors etc. Choosing the song was fairly easy for us as we all shared similar taste music and we all wanted to do unique music video to unique song. Editing in A2 is easier in a compared to AS as you already know how to use final cut pro and it’s just the matter of using the right transmission at the right place and so. However where as the maximum time for the AS project was 2 min 30 seconds, in A2 we had to aim to complete about 4minutes in total which was a challenge as well. Also the blog had to be a lot more detailed as well, where the minimum amount of posts we had to do was 50 which was a major challenge to achieve. Finally the digipack, it was something we need do last year so it was kind of new to all of us; however it was fairly easy to do. We used the Photoshop to edit the images to their standards and we also had to do a poster to advertise the album/the product we had produced. In conclusion we enjoyed creating the music video much more than filming the start of film as it was much more exciting and challenging