Research and Planning
The most useful planning task was the storyboard. This is because it allowed us to see how many shots there were and also what kind of shots they were.
Although, if we had done a more in-depth storyboard, it would have been even easier to see what each shots was like and what exactly happened in each shot.
The kinds of planning I expect to during the A2 year are; Locations, props, actors, etc
Production: Digital Technologies
My knowledge of using the film camera has developed as I feel that now I pay much more attention to how each shot is framed. The thing I learned is how important it is to get the lighting, composition, angle and framing of the shot right to make it look the same as the original.
The main technological skill I would like to develop during the A2 year is definitely the use of a film camera as I feel at the moment my camera skills are fairly standard and I would want them to develop to a level above standard.
Production
During the production of this video I learnt that making even the first section of a music video is hard, mainly due to the fact that music videos tends to be very fast paced and so they include lots of different shots.
In general, the shoot was successful as we were able to shoot all of our shots in one day. However, I think some of the shots weren't as good as they could have been which could be overcome if we retook each shot more times.
Post Production: Digital Technology
in my opinion the editing stage went very well and I found it fairly easy. However, the files we used were slightly different and so it meant that every time we used a clip we had to render it. Without this, it would have made the process a little bit quicker. The main tool I used was the cutting tool, so I could get each clip down to the right size so that it would fit with the song but also the original video.
