AICE Media Studies

 1. How does your product use or challenge conventions and how does it represent social groups or issues? After doing our research for our music video, I thought about whether I should use conventions or challenge them. I decided to kind of do a mashup of both. The reason it was more of a mashup was because in our research I found that a lot of these types of music videos were really just, people performing on stage which we do not have access to. So instead, we decided to film portions on the roof rather than being in a studio. One thing we did do to challenge conventions was to create a story rather than having the traditional dancing that we see in music videos today. My music video represents the social group of teenagers that just want to have a good time and party. Our goal was to produce a music video in a way that would seem fun and joyful for all audiences watching.  I do not believe that there are many issues that we covered in our music video.  2. How...

This is my music video I hope you enjoy. This was a lot of fun to make. I hope my group mate had as much fun as me.

  Welcome back to my blog. In todays blog I will be talking about the second day of editing. The second day of editing occurred today in class. This was best because most of my group members were there expect for Lucas who is in a different class. We were given time today in class to work. Before we got started my group started Rhys had to complete his production blog. After he finished those, we took a look at what we still needed to finish and what we need to improve. We discussed with Lucas over the phone to get his input. I voiced that we should make the video of Lucas playing the piano longer. Rhys had a better idea so we decided to go with that. Rhys had the idea of having Lucas play the piano and then cutting back to the roof scene. We all agreed that this would be the best idea. Rhys went in and fixed it with his editing software. We had to add 2 new scenes. Rhys emailed the scenes to himself and then we found a place to put them in our video. We watched it a few more times...

Welcome back to the blog. In today’s blog we will be discussing the editing part of our film. For the editing portion we had to meet up in class and work together to edit our music video. Because Lucas is not in the same class as us, me, Rhys and Luke edited it by ourselves. Rhys brought all of his equipment from home. This included his camera, SD and his computer. He recently had to restart his computer so some thing he downloaded for this project was not available. We had to download the software before we could do anything. That took about 15 minutes. During that time we decided that it would be best if we planned a little bit more. We decided to replace the soccer scene with the video game scene. After the software was downloaded we opened it up and signed in. The first thing we did was put all of our videos into a folder. After that we cut them to the correct lengths and made sure it was timed correctly. We then added the music on the back of the video. We watched it all together ...

 Welcome beck to my blog. Today I am going to discuss day 2 of filming. Last Saturday me and my group members met up to do out second day of filming. The first shot of the day was me jumping into the pool. One of my group members filmed me while I jumped into deep end of the pool. The water was very cold so I had to retake many times and change my facial expression. I jumped in many different times and did different jumps. This was important so that we could find the jump that worked the best. Rhys is going to edit the film later so it is vital that we have many options for him to choose from. The next shot that we filmed was me relaxing on a pool float. The blue floating chair was the best pool floaty to both show me relaxing and see my face. The sun was a struggle because there was a strong glare on the water. In addition half of the pool was shaded because of my roof. The shade was an obstacle that we tried to avoid when filming. Another problem with the pool shots is the cleani...

Welcome back to my blog. In this blog, we will talk about day 2 of production. After our joyride on the electric bike, we started to film the rest of the outside scenes. The next outside scene that we shot was with the Spikeball game. In this scene, me and Rhys were hitting the Spikeball around amongst each other and finished with me spiking the ball really hard into the net. After the Spikeball scene, we continued and shot outside at the basketball hoop in my front yard. Rhys filmed me while I dunked on the basketball hoop. We did multiple takes, and we switched the style of dunk many times. We did this to ensure that we had good clips and good angles. When we finished the dunking shot on the big basketball hoop, we shot another basketball shot but this time on the arcade basketball game on the side of my house. Luc filmed me and Rhys while we competed to see who could get the most baskets in the quickest amount of time. Although we won't be using the whole game competition, only ...

 Welcome back to my blog. In this blog I will be talking about the first day of filming. After we planned what day, time, and where we will meet, I began to prepare for filming. As a group we all met at my house last weekend. Luc, Rhys, and Lucas arrived around 1pm and we had a quick snack before getting to work. The first thing on our to do list was to film all of the inside shots. We decided that this would be the best thing to do first so that we were not sweaty after we filmed outside. Rhys filmed Lucas playing the piano. We shot many different angles, and many takes so we could pick and choose what shots were best. We are on a schedule so we could not afford to reset another day. After the piano shot, we headed outside to film our rood scene. I carried the ladder over, made sure it was sturdy, and then I climbed up. Rhys and Luc transferred the equipment and props up to the roof once I was settled. As a group, we decide that it would be best if Rhys and Luc were playing the gu...

      Welcome back to my blog my name is Daniel Brinkworth. In this blog we will talk about the planning process that took place for our music video. A big help in planning is our storyboard. Which was really helpful in preparing for the music video. The storyboard had everything planned out. So, we knew when to pretend to sing. It also helped us know if we need to perform a certain way. In our storyboard, we wrote down the times of when that scene would start. Before we did our storyboard, we had to find a location. This was very difficult because we needed to have an idea before we could start thinking of a location. Another big thing in planning the music video was time and it was hard to find time to film because we all have busy schedules and there’s four of us this time rather than three when we did the commercial. It all worked out when we found a day that we didn’t have anything, so we set aside three hours to work on our music video. Now that that was all worked ...