AICE Media Studies

  Creative Critical Reflection 1.       1.  How does your product use or challenge conventions AND how does it represent social groups or issues? My music video uses conventions because it is upbeat and fun. My music video shows two girls dancing around and doing fun activities. This is just like the regular music video, in the way that the girls are enjoying themselves. However, it does challenge conventions because, it does not have a serious side to it, and some music videos like to show that side of the song. I wanted to keep it upbeat to go with the song. There are also no boys in this music video, with pop music there tends to be boys or girls as love interests in the video. My music video represents social groups and issues. The main point to the song is that girls want to have fun, this is a social issue because girls do not always get to have fun because they are looked at to take care of everyone and be responsible. My music video challenges those ...

This project taught me a lot and it was fun. I learned how to create a story by following what the music was telling me. I enjoyed creating the scenes to go with the story of the song. When I started the process of creating the scenes for the video, I decided to go with a more upbeat feeling. I thought this would go well with the song. Writing all the scenes was a great way to increase my knowledge of creating a film. I enjoyed seeing my script come to life when we filmed. I liked creating the different viewpoints and concepts of the video. Deciding what activities, the girls should do was difficult, because I had a lot of different ideas but not enough time for them all. I decided on the activities in the video because I thought those were the most upbeat and fun. Filming the girls doing the activities is difficult because I wanted it to portray the fun side of life as much as possible. Adding different fun camera angles made that more possible. It brought a whimsical factor to the vi...

  I started off filming, with the first scene. This scene was the one on the coach with the girls jumping up off from the coaches, after not finding anything on the TV. I made this a full view of the room, the TV, and the two girls. I did this because I wanted to show how bored the girls were and what they were doing. I then showed them running out of the room. I showed all these things in one recording. I did this so it would be as smooth as possible. The next scene was of the girls running outside from the front door. This was a fast clip just to show how the girls got outside. Then the girls run into the car, one girl is holding car keys and they both look happy. This clip did not have a moving camera I just kept the camera steady. The next scene cuts city girls driving out of the driveway. This scene moves the camera to the right a little bit as the car drives away. Then the video cuts to the girls on bikes riding out of garage. This scene does a sweeping view of the girls ridi...

I started by editing down the song to only 1 minute long. Then I exported all the videos onto my computer. I put them  onto my video editing app. Then I started to cut down the videos. I started with the first scene where we are on the coach. I cut parts of the video out, so it was only a few seconds long. Then I added a smooth transition to the front door scene. I showed the girls leaving from the inside then them running outside into the car. After that I cut the video to them pulling out of driveway then to them in the car, I made sure all the transitions were smooth and that they went along with the music well. The next part of the video was of the girls riding their bikes out of their garage and into the street. This transition from the car to the bikes was fast so it seems like no time has passed. When the girls ride around the neighborhood, I made sure the video was short, so it did not take up too much time sense the next scenes are a bit long. I cut that video down a lot a...