AICE Media Studies

CCR   Critical Creative Reflection     How does your product use or challenge conventions AND how does it represent social groups or issues?   Our music video for "Best Day of My Life" challenges conventions by featuring a cast of two students of diverse backgrounds. Displaying two young children overwhelmed with the stress of class, sports, work, and the responsibilities of life. Despite the struggles these students are overwhelmed with, they are able to break away, even if it's just for a day, to have fun, and have the “Best day of their life ”. The aim of us challenging these conventions is to break away from the convention music video norms of our genre that focus on a single narrative. By doing so, the video not only challenges the stereotypes, but also illustrates the idea of overwhelmed people, not just kids, taking a day off to celebrate the good things in life .  Whether it’s with family or friends, the point of our video is to remind everyone to b...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L3VOhJfBbsU Hello everyone! Welcome back! The video above is the final product of this long process. Thank you for tuning in and sticking with us till the end! Hope to see you soon for the next blog!

 Hello everyone! Welcome back to the blog! If you've been tuning in, you are already caught up on the process of me and my group filming and editing for our music video. Today's blog is going to be on making the finishing touches of editing the videos. David, Jake, and I, all had different ideas for how we thought the video should be edited. So, instead of picking one idea over the others, we each edit all the videos ourselves, and will decide later which one we like the best. Then after we choose we will make the needed changes.  I had a basic idea for the video. I didn't want to make many "fancy" over the top changes that would take too much attention from the actual video itself. So i stuck to the basics. I put all the videos together, and fit them to the music. Using the needed transitions to ensure the video flowed together, I attempted to make the transitions so seamless you barely noticed they were there. This was tough since some of the videos were extreme...

 Hello everyone! Welcome back to the blog! Today is going to be on the process of me filming my final few shots for the music video! I finished the first few shots and edit them all. Today i have to film the last few shots of jet skiing, cooking dinner, eating dinner, and the final scene of us on the balcony with the night sky in the background. These shots were much more complicated than the last few. The final scene of us on the balcony was meticulous to get the perfect shot of both of us in the video, with the moon and night sky in the background. The second shot to film was us cooking dinner. We utilized the same eagles eye view from my breakfast scene earlier in the video. Getting the phone in the correct position, in which the pans can be seen, as well as David and I, was extremely tedious. If the phone wasn't in the right position, there would be no way for us to know until the entire scene is over. Which would ruin the entire scene, because we wouldn't have time to comp...