AICE Media Studies

Critical Creative Reflection 1.       1.  How does your product use or challenge conventions AND how does it represent social groups or issues? The audience is expecting to see conventions in any media product, it is basically a building block. In my music video, I used different conventions. The music video starts out with showing the restaurant name which was "Rock Bar". This allows the audience to know where the filming was taken place at and they could go there to try the food. Then we get to filming at the beach which is typical in most music videos of my genre. The song we did was "Greece" by Drake/DJ Khaled. This was in the hip hop/rap category. In the music video, you can see it is about three girls having fun. This is usually featured in many songs in this category showing people just having fun. It portrays the youth of this century and how we live our lives. The settings in many hip hop/rap videos are usually at the beach, near the water, on a yacht, and ...

    I am overjoyed at the way the music video came out. I am proud of the group I worked with. The music video showed my development of editing and filming from my commercial. I could not have completed this project with out my teammates. I made sure not to make the same mistakes time wise as when I was making the commercial. It is clear that everything was planned out well. The video was not choppy or last minute. There are many changes that could be seen. We helped each other to be better at editing and it ending up making our video better. We believed that we could work through troubles of editing and filming. I have improved at editing because of my group. I could not have completed this without my group because we work good together.  It was just us having fun and forgetting about everything for a couple of hours. I am proud because of one reason. I believe that our message was portrayed throughout the video. Our message was that making memories with p...

     My group and I have not decided when to edit our video yet. Looking back on the filming day it was very fun. I am both sad and relieved about the filming. I feel this way because it was really fun to work with my group but I am relieved we got it done. I had a great time filming especially because we are all friends. We were all in contact and started to plan everything immediately. I feel like filming is better than editing for us because we can't meet up this time to edit. It was a little hectic because the storyboard was not really matching up with our scenes. In the end, we found a way to make it work because we were not going to leave until it did. Luckily, in the end, before the sunset we got all our shots done. I am grateful to be able to work with them because they really know how to get work done. We have talked before about working together for the commercial but we had already paired up. This time we actually got to work together and it was very easy to se...

      The editing of our music video will take place soon. We will not be meeting up in person this time instead we will do a zoom call. We would have to start by making sure we have a proper duration and that everything fits. Some things we will do is import and export videos from our phones and laptops. This is because both Anayah and I have videos that we shot. The editing would involve us all having to go back and forth with each other over emails to show our progress and what we are doing. The editing would involve us fixing the lighting, cropping, and etc. The lighting is probably an important thing because we want to fit it into the theme. The cropping would be to make sure that what we need in the background is there and what we don't need is not there. We have to make sure that we are all cooperating so we don't mess up. The time is what we would have to tackle because it has to be under 60 seconds and not a second over. Each scene has to be 5 seconds because it ...