Skills Development: PRODUCTION

In AS my group didn't plan our Thriller very well as we didn't all agree on things, so we thought when it comes to filming we will just do whatever comes to mind. We had a very basic idea of what we wanted our thriller to be about but when it came down to filming that wasn't nearly enough. The story board we made was very simple so when it came down to the pitch we had to do, we all had to put very specific detail into what we were hoping our video would turn out to be- even if the details we were giving weren't actually going to happen. Since we didn't have much to go on, we had to work a lot harder than we needed to- not because we weren't working hard in the first place, but because we literally had no ideas to bring to life and that was because we all had a set idea of how we wanted our thriller to be but because all our ideas clashed we didn't come to a final descion which made us work VERY hard. In a way the approach we had turned out to be not so bad since we started working as a unit and put the best ideas together and produced our thriller "OMNIPRESENT". We ended up getting a B for it and we were all very proud.

Comparing last year to the Music Video that we are making now things are very different. My group planed our video thoroughly and when we filmed we stuck to our story board tightly. We all work good as a team and our fantastic individual ideas combine together to make our video the BEST it can be. There is one thing that worked better in my AS year than it did now and that is that the actors/performers were all apart of my own group so we knew their schedule well, and any time we had a lesson we could film what we needed, even if we had to re-film something it wouldn't be much of a problem because our actors were always around. Whereas its a bit difficult now since our performer isn't in our group so fitting filming around her schedule is difficult. We as a group have to bare in mind that our performer doesn't owe us anything, the outcome of our video doesn't affect her in the slightest- Yes she wants us to do good but, what grades we get still don't affect her. So far our video is looking really and our teachers seem to like it so that's a plus. I look forward to seeing the final piece.