Comparison of the differences of AS to A2

Throughout the filming this year we as a group have developed our skills greatly, from the first stages of development and storyboards to the use of the hand held camera and the angles which work best for the surrounding. This year we also combined the use of the professional studio cameras as well as the use of hand held cameras. This enhanced are skills in the using the technical equipment.
When recording our music video we used the profesional lighting, in the studio, to create maximum effect, whilst we were recording in the studio we used a variety of different cameras to create a more intense effect. we used vision mixing on the tricaster, this created fades and camera angles to enable you to see the action from every angle possible.
We found that this year our skills were much more developed when it came to the use of 'Final Cut Pro' we bacame more comfortable as a result we were able to develop our work nmuch faster and to a better standard t olast year.
The film this year is has to be slightly longer than last year as many songs have a longer duration then the 3 minute limit last year, this effected our filming this year because we when it came to the editing we realised we hadn’t filmed enough footage to put in our music video, in turn this meant we didn’t have enough locations in mind so had to develop our ideas further meaning we made alot of changes throughout the editorial process.
We all found the change between AS and Alevel significantly different in the view that it is more work load. However with knowledge we had already learned from AS we feel we have more general media contexual knowledge and practical media experience to imput, which though added more work we could do it made it easier to fully understand and express our skills and attributes.
Overall we worked much more efficiantly this year and were able to explore a wider use of more professional technology.