Production: Skills development: how I approached planning differently to AS

This year, the music video task was much harder than last year's thriller opening task. For the thriller opening we had a solid idea that we would stick with, after we knew the story we would be doing, we immediately came up with the location we would choose, the props we would use, the costumes that would be used and who would be starring in it. Once we had all of this we quickly picked up the pace and began filming straight away, we went to our location, set up the equipment and started filming, granted we wasn't that experienced in any of this, it was the first time doing any of this, the acting in front of the camera, getting all the right shots, making sure that everything was in frame. After our first day, we got back to college and started editing, we did find a few things that we needed to fix, so we went back and re-filmed it and everything was done, we just edited it and finished.
This year on the other hand I found it difficult, we had to pick out a song to use, we were struggling with that, after looking through many different songs, one of the people in our group (Joe) stumbled upon one (Skream ft Example - Shot Yourself in the Foot Again), everyone in the group listened to it and thought that it would be an excellent choice as it was a dubstep genre and would be different to everyone elses. Our group came up with several ideas on to what the music video would be about and we were struggling on picking out one. We had to send out emails to the artists to try and gain copyright permissions to use the song. We then came to a conlusion on what the story of the music video would be and we booked the equipment and began filming. This year we had gained experience so we knew how to use the equipment, how to set it up, how the frame the shot etc. After two days of filming we went back to college and started to edit, we were getting the hang of this as we had learnt how to do it before we had breaken up for summer holiday's.
Again we found little problems, we got feedback from the teachers and needed to go back and re-film, this happened again and we went back a second time to re-film. This time we were in luck and everything was all right, now editing needed to be done, we researched on which effects to use, looked at different music videos, looked at the original and how we would make it different to that.