AICE Media Studies

  Critical Creative Reflection  How does your product use or challenge conventions AND how does it represent social groups or issues? The music video represents social issues or groups by showing what is going on in the music video. The music video was about the thought or flashbacks of missing summer. For example, the video was about what you would do in the summer and in the video there were many activities that could be done. There were fun activities that most people would do in the summer like going to the beach, and these flashbacks are just to remind them of how much fun they had.​ It has a representation of social group because in the music video you can see that there are people bonding and having fun with each other. This represents social group in a way of just people socializing with one another. An issue that would be portrayed in the video is that all good things come to an end. This was seen as how in the end of the video it was the ending of summer. When the vi...

 Hey Blog! Here is the awaited music video, it was a long project but I hope you enjoy it as much as I did making it!

 Hey blog! Im back and today I will be telling you guys on just about what I did when I had to edit for my music video. But before I get into that I must let you know that in the previous blog I had said that me and my group mate had chose and app for editing but since then we decided to change our choice and selected CapCut as our app of choice. Now where was I ah yes what basically went down when I had to edit the video. Me and my group mate agreed on that each of us would have shifts for this project. Therefore I will be saying what I did in my shifts and briefly explain what he did in his shifts. He had the first shift and all he did was just put together all the clips. Before he did that however I had to send him what I had recorded. When I started my shift I started by removing the sound on clips. This made the whole video silent, so I needed to add the song into it to make it seem like a music video. However when I had a bit of difficult trying to import the audio. I could n...

 Hey blog I am back once again. Today I will be discussing how what editing app me and my group mate would like to use. This was mainly a conversation that me and him had. Our first thought was about using Capcut but with this app there is a watermark at the end of the video that you make. Our teacher told us that unlike the commercial we made, our music video cannot have this at the end of the video. So with that being said that was the end of Capcut's journey. There were many of other editing apps that were mentioned as well. For example iMovie, Adobe, etc. Him and I were considering adobe but when we were looking into it we noticed a setback. That to be able to use adobe we would have to purchase the app. This is not something we were looking forward to even though it was one of the better known apps and I'm sure that it has its premium feature which is why it has a price on it. I kept looking at other apps and there were not really much more. Another thing that we realized ...

 Hey blog I'm back once again! All that was left to film was the bit at this amusement center called Xtreme Action Park. I once again had to go pick up my group mate and from his house it was not much of a drive it was only like six minutes. When we arrived there I had to park and based on storyboard the first clip had to be a shot of just the location we were at. At Xtreme there is a massive logo on the building so we just filmed that and said it was more than enough. This clip was about five-seven seconds long. We entered the building and when we walked inside we were greeted by security. After we passed security we had to go to the front and ask if we could just be there for film purposes. The staff told us that we needed an adult just to go around the building, but luckily for us we knew people that work there. I knew a manager and a few coworkers that works there. I managed to be able to contact the manager and asked them and we were in the green! We had to record just a few s...

 Hey blog, it's yours truly, Carlos! I need to be able to film some more scenes for my music video. I thankfully was able to clear my schedule and asked my group mate if he would like to tag along for this bit of filming. He was down to go so I had to go pick him up. From his house the park we were going to was about ten minutes away. When we arrived we decided to film according to storyboard. Based on scene six we would have to film a different sport, however we both do not play sports and had to take the opportunity to ask people if they were comfortable with us recording them play. After their consent we filmed, thank them and left. We were glad that it did not take long and very grateful that these people were fine with us recording them. After this we needed to film the scene about the walk in a nature park. Luckily the park we were at has a nature park in the same park so him and I went to this section of the park. When we got there it was empty like how it usually is and we ...

 Hey blog, I am once again back! Today I will be discussing a part of what I did when I had to record for the music video. Me and my teammate discussed that it would be easier if I record a part of the sport part by myself. Like said in the storyboard there will be multiple scene involving sports. One scene would just be a group of people playing a sport. I go to the park a lot with my friends to play soccer. So I was like why not just record it while I am already there. We both like that idea and now I just had to wait till I went to the park again to go play with my friends. After some time I was finally able to go to the park to play with them but It was not as easy to record it. I told my friends my plan and they were not fully up to it. I feel like they felt this way because when we would all play, we usually play shirts and skins. Some of them are not comfortable being shirtless on camera so I told them it did not matter and they can keep it just to make it seem like it was a...