I believe that my research and planning has enhanced from AS to A2. The Student magazine task in AS showed me why research and planning was very important. In this task I created and handed out questionairres to gain valuable feedback from our target audience which was students. On the other hand fulfilling this task was very time consuming from creating, printing and giving out questionairres. Another type of primary research I carried out for this task was market research I done this by searching the internet for any current student magazines, however this come to little use, there was not a lot of results online for student magazines which questions the reliabilty of the internet for the topic and forced me to carry out research else where.
Research and Planning for my primary task in AS was more in depth as I had to use the internet and music magazines to research into the genre we had chosen which was rock. I made a case study on Q magazine to see what goes in to the magazine and how and why they do so. Also I carried out research by deconstructing Front Covers and Contents pages of magazine to analysis the house style and typical conventions such as headings and paragraphs. During this however my group encountered a problem with technology as our pictures that had been uploaded in the first year of the course were removed from the blog. To counter this we looked through our folders on the iMacs and computers as well as documents we had printed out to replace them.
Now researh and planning for my task in A2 had to be more detailed firstly i researched music videos online using websites such as youtube and Yahoo! Music. I took note of the different types of genres and particular mise-en-scene as well as common camera angles and shots in music videos. After this was done I then had to plan my own, I done this by making a brainstorm of typical ideas to the song taking into account the lyrics and tone of the song. After this was fulfilled I had to plan the casting and the number of roles to be played in the video as well as set dates for filming
