AICE Media Studies

    1. How does your product use or challenge conventions AND how does it represent social groups or issues? My product conducts a version of reality when it comes to expressing emotion and socially connecting with people and their internal feelings. It may not just automatically scream out just a verbal connection, but if you keep listening eventually to all those feelings that you feel, you will understand that others feel it too. When it comes to emotions and feelings, it's not well expressed due to social anxiety of what others may think and the judgement you get behind it. But what is failed to realize is that, what makes up a human is your emotions, something that everyone has and you should feel no shame to express. Being that we stay in such a judgmental world, its hard to know who someone truly is. Usually the term "two-faced" only was acknowledged to people who would be shady, and feel a complete opposite way of how they are actually acting towards someone. But ...

It's crazy because throughout this whole time i was planning as if i will be recording the whole music video. But originally i was only supposed to do a minute of it. So after discovering that, i just kept the portions I thought appealed to me the most and I really enjoyed. I'm really proud of my video. I believe I've improved tremendously since my first commercial dealing with editing and filming.  This video was very fun to make, and i was able to really let loose a side of me that is not much acknowledged. I rarely see my mom so i was actually able to get a little bonding done with her, and her skills approved as well. One thing i learned about filming is that sometimes not everything will go as planned. But the important thing about it is, you have to improvise, and when you have a good piece it will be a good piece regardless of how plans may change. Doing a music was something new to me, but i really believe this was one of many more greatest experiments i could have ...

 While filming i did have to edit my shots but it was much easier for me considering i had experience from my first commercial. There were times where i had to add lighting or contrast to my film to highlight the parts i really wanted to be notice. When lyrics got messed up, i had a lot of bloopers. But, the way i edited it, Its hard to even notice. During scenes when i would be dancing or singing i would have gotten a little to wild and bumped into something, so scenes definitely had to get cut. When camera angles were off, we had to use different settings to fix them. But overall, i had very little editing to worry about. But when it came to my locations outside of my home, that's where the editing took place the most. In order to make my car seem like it was moving i had to use filters and apps to make it more realistic. Some portions i did have to drive and though it was kind of dangerous, my mom made sure we were in an empty parking lot. She claims " she cant afford to hi...

 In the past few days i have been filming my in home part of my music video. I'm not finish but it did turn out to be a little fun. I will be filming my other location projects this weekend. While filming in home it was just my mother and I so she helped guide me. Her recommendations turned out to be very useful and helpful. We did get into some quarrels, but hey that's mother, daughter love. I was able to be myself and for once it felt good. Singing to the top of my lungs, and having fun with different props. I realized i cant sing at all compared to Becky G but it felt good expressing emotion the way she did. My mother was questioning me to why i was so in to the song and asking who i like that much to be singing that loud, but i just laughed. Filming was fun. I used angles that were unique. While i also tried to get the best angles with the best lighting. There was times we had to retake videos due to distraction or just bloopers in general. When it came to filming it didn...

 Over thanksgiving break i did not record but i did continue to gather more ideas for my music video. I realized that instead of my whole video being inside of my home i should also make my video in other areas. For instance, i will record in areas that i feel attracted to the emotions that were felt. The overall video is based off an unimaginable feeling that the artist gets from a significant other taking the artist in all these joyful places that she imagines whenever she thinks of that significant other. Correlating that i believe my video can have a better outcome. As well as interact more with the artist. My ideas did get changed also when it comes to hairstyles and costumes. At first i was considering having different hairstyles for each scene. But when I realized that its a daydream of the artist she should continue to keep her natural look. For costumes i realized if i'm going to add different locations, the artist have to wear the right attire for that. Meaning more costu...