Skills Audit

The research done for our thriller opening was less challenging than what we are asked to do for our music video in A2 Media. A strong example of this is the choice of genre, as in AS they had given us a genre ‘thriller’ which made it much simpler as we already had our field of films we would need to look into in order to make our own opening successful. But in A2 we have to first choose our own music genre which will create a variety between all the A2 students, we need to keep in mind what song would make a good music video and also think of the way in which we would promote our artist. There is also a legal side we have to consider this year, as when creating our thriller opening for our AS coursework we didn’t need to think about copyright permission. However this year we need to focus of the different British labels and artists and request copyright to a particular song, this is an important part of our research as it makes us feel more involved with the music industry. Looking back to my AS year I see many differences already in the way our music video have to be filmed, as last year the camera had to be more still and they had to be some kind of narrative structure unlike this year where the camera should not be still as it will not create a lively and impressive music video and also looking at other music videos there’s is little narrative structure in most of them.