When I began the research process for my AS practical work last year I must admit that it took me a while to get used to researching everything before we could go out and start filming. This was because im so used to working everything out the day before that I wasn't really used to planning or researching things. But I must admit that researching is a really good way of making sure you know everything before you can begin filming.
When I began researching for my thriller film I didn't really understand what i had to research as to me all I thought we would have to research was about locations and where and when we would be able to film. But when I actually took the time to speak to me media teachers I found out there is a lot you have to research before you can even beginning filming. you have to make sure you have the perfect location, you have a good team of actors as you dont want to be let down at the last minute.
When thinking back to my research back then and comparing the research I am doing now I can see that there has been a massive change, for the better of course. As I am now know more about what I need to be researching and how it will help me when I begin making my music video. The first thing I began researching would have to be the type of music video I wanted to make. Did I want to make it an RnB music video, an Indie music video or did I want to make it a slow music video. To help me get inspiration of what kind of music video I wanted to produce I watched a few music videos from past city and islington students. I would say that some of the music videos were the wow factor, form the style of music they used or even from the way they edited the music video.
Another thing we had to do was find the perfect location, even though we still havent decided on all our locations we have a pretty good idea of where we want to film. All we have to do now is get permission to film there. When I say permisson I mean that we have to find out if we are allowed to film because in certain locations you are not allowed to film. Another problem we had when deciding where to film was expenses, I mean to be able to film in certain locations you have to pay money. In my group we wanted to film in a train station, but then our media teacher Rebecca told us that to be able to film in places like a train station you have to have a permit. So once Rebecca had told us that we had to pay I began researching how much it would cost to be able to film in a train station, after looking for ages I finally found out that for a student permit it would be £40.00. Even though it isn't a lot of money to students like us it kind of is as we would only be filming for an hour maximum so we didn't really want to spend money to film. Even if we can't film in the train station we are stilling going to find some really good locations to film in.
Another thing we had to research was the weather report we had to make sure that on the days we wanted to film that we had the right weather. I mean if we would be filming a happy scene we wouldnt want it to be raining or grey and cloudy. So we had to take extra time when it came to researching the weather reports.
All in all I would say that my research skills have developed dramatical from last year to now as this year I have a better idea of what I have to research about and how I ma going to research. I mean I think it is better if you use different methods to research, I mean one time you can use the internet for research another time you can watch tv to get inspiration and another time you can read a magazine to research an idea. As if you used different methods of researching it makes it more interesting and you will enjoy it more.
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