Comparison of AS and A2 Production work.

The whole filming process has been similar in the idea that we have had to put a lot of time and effort into making sure we have decent quality of shots and plenty of mixed shots to use. Filming the Music video was more difficult as we had to film Doug lip singing; therefore we had to make sure this matched the song timing and everything perfect, so it looked like a real Music video. However in the AS filming production we just had to film different areas and scenes to make up a film opening, we didn’t have to include any speaking.

When filming the A2 music video we were in one main location, Failsworth, therefore there wasn’t a great deal of traveling that we did from different locations and we could walk around on foot. However in AS we used a Varity of different locations for our film so it involved a mixture of travelling around to get the right shots.
In both the AS and A2 production work we used the digital camera, and the tripod for most of the filming. There was only the odd occasion that we used the camera hand held to get a ‘shaky camera effect’ or for a different style.
I think we do around the same amount of filming in both AS and A2 it just depends on how much you need to film, what you need to film and the locations you film in. For our group we only had 3 days that we used for filming and we managed to get our right shots. We filmed a lot so that we have extra shots and scenes to put in to our video and use incase some aren’t good enough.

The editing process in A2 is different, as we don’t have any sound on our filmed scenes due to the fact it’s a music video and we will be putting the song over the top of it. It’s difficult, as we have to match the song up with the lip-syncing in our video to make sure it fits and doesn’t look out of sync or stupid. We have had a few issues where the lip syncing in our video isn’t the best therefore we may have to repeat some filming using the green screen. This is a difference between AS and A2 as we never had this issue in AS film production.
We think the editing process in A2 is quicker then what it was in AS, this could be because we are used to editing, or just because we have the scenes to just piece together nicely. However when editing, we have to make sure the filming we have done links into the song and the pace of the song. We have chosen a slow paced song so a lot of our filming is just basic scenes and doesn’t have loads going on within it.

We haven’t used a lot of effects on our music video during editing compared to in AS as it is just a music video and sometimes too much effects can make it look stupid or fake. We want it to match the theme and style of the chosen song. However in our AS filming we needed a lot of effects to make our film opening look interesting and appealing to an audience.
We have had the same amount of time to complete the work as we did in AS, however this time we have had more to do for our video. We have had to do more blog work, and analysis of magazine adverts and CD covers which we didn’t do in AS for our film opening. Design and producing a magazine cover and CD case has meant that this production has been more time consuming as we have to figure what style of advert and design to do, then complete the two productions using Photoshop or such. Therefore A2 production has been more time consuming as we have more production work to be completed in a small space of time then what we did in AS.