AICE Media Studies

  CCR My music video is in the genre of R&B love songs. My project uses conventions like fade ins to show an intro into the video. Similar to other music videos in this genre, It has dialogue in the beginning to start off the story and set the tone for the video, and it uses camera movements like tracking shots to follow the character through the story. Through the research, my group member and I took down a bunch of things that all the videos did. We made sure to write down the things that every video did so we could include it in ours. My project doesn’t challenge conventions. This is partly due to the time that we were allowed the video to be. If we had more time it would be cool to make the video more our own. Add a few more things that aren't seen as much in videos of the same genre. My music video mostly follows what other music videos in the same genre do. My music video doesn’t necessarily represent any social group or issues, unless you categorize people in toxic relat...

All of my group and I's hard work led up to this. I hope you love it as much as we do. Enjoy!

 Hello and welcome to or back to my blog! I hope you had a good week so far. Mines has been hectic because it’s homecoming spirit week but I still wanted to make time for my music video.  In my last blog I talked about what I did with the music. Cutting the clips to match beats and making sure the video fits in with the same time as the song. Including making a few small sacrifices. In todays blog I will be telling you what I did in finishing up my portion of the music video. First I watched the video a couple times to get familiar with it again. While doing this I took mental notes on how I want the transitions to look. When researching, Annabel and I noticed in some of the music videos, the name of the song would come up on the screen with the artist. I made sure to mention it to Annabel in school so we wouldn’t forget to put that in ours as well.  While making my commercial I explored some new transitions that I never tried before. I decided to put that new knowledge t...

 Hello and welcome to or welcome back to my blog!! In my last blog I don’t you about my rough cut. As well as some additional things I did that day. Today I continued editing my part of the video. That is what’s todays blog is going to be about. Today I decided to tackle adding the music and adjusting the length of the clips based off of that. Annabel and I both listened to the song a decided on where we wanted to make the cuts. The music video could only be at most one minute and fifteen seconds so it was a little hard to decide. Since we did plan for the beginning of the music video to have some talking the duration on the song had to be less. The cut between the songs isn’t very seamless but you probably can’t hear it if you aren’t listening for it. After taking my half I put it over the clips and they were longer than the song. It made me sad because I hoped that I wouldn’t have to make any sacrifices on what to keep in. Instead of just taking an entire scene out I made the sce...

 Hello and welcome to or welcome back to my blog! In my last couple blogs I talked about the process I went through while filming the music video. The project doesn’t just stop there. It has to be edited. In todays blog I will be telling you what I’ve done so far to start up the editing process. Annabel and I decided to split up the clips. She took the first half and I would take the second half. We would edit it and she would send it to me. I would put the two together and that would be our completed music video. So the first thing I did is what I call a rough cut. I went through each clip and cut out unnecessary things. Pauses that don’t add to the story. Some scenes were shot multiple time so I cut out the unusable ones. Only keeping the ones that were good takes. I really wanted to have bloopers because we laughed a lot during the filming process. Whenever there was a funny part I part or if we laughed I would move that to the end so all the bloopers would be in one place. That...

 Hello and welcome to or back to my blog! In my last blog I talked about what my group members and I did that Sunday when we went to the park. In this blog I will be telling you about what I did last weekend for the music video.  One of the props needed for the music video was some sort of food. When I got the Annabel’s house the only thing I saw was goldfish but her mom was willing to bring us to McDonalds. When we got to the McDonald’s we went into the drive through. I ordered nuggets and fries because I was hungry and the food used in the video we we’re gonna eat. Her mom offered to get us ice cream so I also asked for a caramel Sunday. The only thing needed for the video was the bag. It just needed to look like there was food in it but we thought might as well get food too. After getting back to the house I first tried filming the scene where he drops off the food from the inside but the lighting was off. The sun was behind him and because of that it made the scene appear ...

 Hello and welcome to or welcome back to my blog! In my last blog I talked about the process of filming the beginning scenes in the house. In todays blog I will be talking about how I did the scenes outside the house and the park. I met everyone at Annabel’s house the next day. We looked out our storyboards again and discussed what we were going to do. In the story board I wrote that the argument is brought outside. So when filming I did a tracking shot so the camera would be walking with them as they talk. Since I didn’t want to throw an actual phone incase it might break, a phone case was used instead. It gave an illusion of a phone being thrown when in reality it was just the phone case. After this things got a little complicated. Our female actors mom is very strict on her driving so we had to figure out a way to still shoot the scenes how we wanted but also respect her mom’s decision. We did that by filming her going to sit in the front seat but when it was time to drive away ...