AICE Media Studies

Creative Critical Reflection 1. How does your product use or challenge conventions AND how does it represent social groups and issues? My product uses conventions by having many different cool and interesting scenes. In many music videos you see cool sets and cool outfits. My music video contained many cool settings, such as the pool, fields, auditoriums, and resorts. My music video represents social groups and issues because my song is a hiphop/rap song and they are usually fun and happy. This music video is intended for all audiences. People will be inspired to take a vacation and have fun after having watched this video because everyone deserves to be joyful and have a good time. Stressed-out people will recognize when it's appropriate to occasionally let loose and have fun.  2. How does your product engage with audiences AND how would it be distributed as a real media text? My video interacts with my audience because it makes them want to have fun and go on a vacation...

 This music video was very fun to create. I feel it may have had a little too many components going on. Meaning settings and different parts which I wish I did cut down on. I wish I sticked with one theme instead and just focused on that. Overall I am still happy with what I created in the end. Filming with my cousin is always fun and I really hope in my next piece I will be a lot happier with than this one. I just feel it lacked a theme and focus. I should have thought more about it once I began filming. I am very excited to start the next project as well because I know I will be able to create an even better piece now that I have created this one. 

Editing went great! I am happy with the outcome. I edited the rest of the clips I had left, getting rid of things I did not need. I also added new things that may have not been in my planning and storyboards. Some shots just did not look as good as I wanted so I completely got rid of them, some extra shots I took looked much better than my planned ones. Therefore I used these clips instead of the planned ones that did not look as good. I also asked my cousin for help during the editing process because she has worked with my editing software, iMovie. She also took this class so she knows the expectations and her help was greatly appreciated. My favorite clips to edit were definitely the pool clips. They looked very aesthetic and the lighting in my opinion was perfect. I am thinking back at it now and I wish my music video was simply based in a pool setting. Specifically the one I was at when I filmed the few clips that I filmed there. I tired to keep these clips as long as possible beca...

Editing has always been fun to me because seeing your work come together can be so satisfying. I was extra excited this time because I recently got a new laptop and am now able to use iMoive. I have heard this a very nice software to edit on and am excited to work with it. I edited about half of my work this day because it took longer than expected. A majority of what I edited was the cars clips and a few introduction shots. I placed them in the order that I liked, that flowed in my opinion. Then I added transitions based on the ending view of the clips before. I also added the music to get a feel of how the entirety would feel when it is complete. I was unsure of how to add the music at first but then research and looked up some videos on how. I began to become frustrated because I could not find an easy way to add the music. It was very hard I just could not figure out how but eventually I found a way. iMovie was a much different experience than what I used before which was ClipChamp...

This was my second and final day of filming. This day was a lot funner to film because I filmed at the pool and it looked very pretty. The pool shot I got was so beautiful. It was very cold outside therefore no one was really at the pool because it was too cold to go in. It was the perfect time for me to film because normally the pool is completely packed and I did not want to feature other people in my video. I was very happy when I saw this for this exact reason. My cousin was scared to jump in because it was so cold but I made her jump in so I could film it. It was very funny, me and her could not stop laughing. The pool at the resort we stayed at was amazing, the waterfall just made it look beautiful. It was dark out but in my opinion made my shot even more majestic. The lights coming from the pool and small lights in between the rocks holding up the waterfall made pretty gleams that made everything look very magical. This clip of the pool and waterfall will definitely be the best ...

Filming will have to be done in two days because I have so much to film. This day I filmed most of all of the car clips. We were in the car on the way and I filmed my cousin driving as well as the view in front of the hotel doors for the beginning of the music video. The entrance was very cool because inside there was a giant Christmas tree since Christmas is coming up. I not only filmed just the entrance but had my cousin stand next to the tree and took a shot of that as well. The tree was a very fun cool unexpected altercation and allowed me to film extra. If I want to include the clip of my cousin standing at the tree I can, and if i do not then I do not have to.Filming was very fun because I did it with my cousin and we always have a good time together. It was very hard not to laugh because we were having so much fun. We had to take many different shots because of this exact reason. I will have to sort through all of them in order to find the best ones. I believe having multiple sh...

On the day I had planned to film it began to rain therefore those plans changed. Instead of filming on the 19th I filmed on the 20th as well as the 21st because I also needed more than one day of filming. I did not realize that I would need two days but I did because I wanted to mainly record at night because it fit the theme of my song. This pushed back all my planned days for editing and rest of the process by two days. The rain was unfortunate but I did not let this hurt my filming time. I still filmed all that I needed and did not have the stormy weather. Just because of altered time because of the weather I did not allow this to effect me in the long run. I just easily changed my filming days to a day later than first proposed. Not all of my shots were outside but most of them were therefore the rain really did not do good. The rain was unexpected I figured it would not rain because it was very cold. Though I did not check the weather which I should have. Next time I will make sur...