Research: skills development

Since the beginning of the AS year i think my research skills have developed and improved. For one, i found it really hard to do the research at all last year as it mainly consisted of watching trailers of horror movies, 'creepy little girl singing' videos etc on youtube and (as I don't particularly like horror movies, or scary children) I spent most of the 'research' time hiding in the corner. This year however, I am more experienced in the task of 'researching' music videos, as I usually spend most of my time on sites like youtube listening to music.

Also, last year we changed our ideas on what we were going to do in our final film many times, so we didn't really get a chance to research things like costume or lighting, or even which location to use. In the end, we only used 2 locations and we had to improvise with the costume and lighting on the day; we ended up using my £3 morrisons lamp to give a 'soft' lighting effect (which ended up not looking too bad) this year however, we have researched exactly what kind of costume, lighting, angles etc. would be most appropriate for the genre and 'mood' we wanted to create in our music video.