Section A

I think that the set menu of tasks has had both advantages and disadvantages to my use of creativity in both of my coursework pieces. An advantage to having a set task with the music video is it allowed me to have a key focus point with my research and planning and meant that theories and narrative structures of music videos were easily taught to the whole class and so my vision of the whole task could be structured better. It also allowed me to extend my imagination because before the music video coursework’s research and planning, I had not really taken a massive interest in music videos and so my knowledge was developed further because I could apply my interest in film narratives to narratives in music videos.
   However, the disadvantage to having the set task of a music video was that the use of equipment for more creative shots (such as aerial shots or tracking) were not available because I didn’t have a large budget to purchase equipment and time constraints on the project meant that actually constructing the equipment cheaply was not possible. This disadvantage with the time constrains also applies to my AS coursework because I could have built a zip-line to have the camera fly down at the beginning to make the opening shot more ingenious.