AICE Media Studies

  1. How does your product use or challenge conventions AND how does it represent social groups or issues? Usually what Indie music videos do is try to convey their idea in a conceptual form, while lip-syncing the lyrics. They’re usually the focus, always the focal point of the camera while everything else shows the concepts they are trying to achieve. These instances are achieved in “Glue Song”, by Beabadoobe. Even if they're not lip-syncing the lyrics, you would know they are the focus due to the camera work always engaging in the artist’s emotions. I see this from, “Untitled”, by Rex Orange County. But what truly inspired me was “ We Fell in Love in October” by girl in red, which became my reference for my video. The overall video and nostalgia the video enraptured me, and I wanted to follow. This video was a casual video that didn't have anything expensive going on, not to say the past two examples had anything expensive, but “We Fell in Love in October” was both humble and...

 It was really fun to work on this. I learned so much during production!

I never realized that Capcut completely destroys your battery. 10 minutes of editing and i was 5 percent down. Like? Regardless, here's the final update before the big day. D-Day. Whatever. Predictable, I didn't get everything done.  Not enough to meet my last blog's goals  But.  But.  I did make enough progresss to go from barely 5 second to a whopping 40+ seconds. That right there deserves a pat on the back. I made some drastic changes. The POV I thought I filmed right turned out to be vertical, so that sucked, I can't have my MV turning into a youtube short in the middle of it, can I? I'll think of someting else. It's important to check your results after filming to see if you get the shot correctly. Lesson learned. I wont spoil too much but here is what happened: During editing, I added a filter labeled "film", and sure enough it did it's job. The video went from 1080pf with normal colors to 1080 pf with tinted colors. Sounds medicore when I pu...

(A picture like this makes me look high-quality.) Today I began editing my video.  Before I get into that, lets quickly summarize progress beforehand. After filming on the bus, it was easy to film my walk home. The neighbors watched me with unnerving interest. It was so tempting to pretend I hadn't placed my phone on a fire hydrant then walked a away, but they saw all of that. I grabbed my phone from the hydrant, ignoring the questioning looks, and filmed a point of view shot. After getting home, I pretended to be walking in and set my stuff down, and film myself tying my shoes. See, this is a bit much for what I showed in the story board, but the songs has intervals of instrumental. In order to fill in that space, I filmed extra scenes. Most of it might get cut away, but this is for precaution. I embedded the sound of song onto Capcut and began to edit. No one tells you how hard it is to properly match the timing of  a scene that is shot in two different angles. I spent a goo...

I liked how car scenes looked in vlogs I've seen in YouTube so I decided to incorporate that. If you reference my story board it's the 4th or 5th scene. During my morning bus ride, I propped the camera onto the window. Thank god for being on of the first stop. The less people. The better. Since my morning bus rides are mostly during pre-sunrise, I could show a chill vibe. I struggled in what pose to put myself in to show emotion. I took multiple shots with different poses. One with me laying on bag, another with me pretending to be a sleep.  My next shot was later into the school day. It was afternoon, the sky was blue and bright. I took different shots with in different positions. Honestly, the same poses as stated before.  After some contemplation, I decided to record the outside as well. As the car ran, I would flip the camera and show the cars passing by. I thought it would add to my story of days passing by in a peaceful manner. I tried to take a video of cars going up on...

Hello guys, here is another update. So I've begun the filming process, which is good. It was a day off of school, so I had extra time to get everything. For the first scene, I waited until it was dark out to record it. I did that to capture that early morning feel. Or the 'I-hate-mornings' look. What I could've done is woke up earlier to capture that feeling at it's true esscence but I would rather...not. Instead, I waited until it was night time. It was a little embrasssing, considering my room has not been updated since i was 9, but I got over it. Just had to tidy up a bit, so while it looked clean, it still looked lived in. You know? The best part of this section was filming in clothes that literally lookd like I rolled out of bed. (P.S. Might as well say that the wallsin my room are pink. Just to throw that out there and get it over with.) I couldn't get the angle right, a tad frustarting, and it looked a bit awkward. As a solution I used another angle, with...

That picture made me giggle for absolutely no reason. But it fits, so whatever. My teacher opened my eyes today. She taught me and the rest of the class how to convert a YouTube video into a mp3. Well she taught me. I was the only one who didn't know how to do it. Which was embarrassing, I had to discreetly ask how how to do it. Which is funny because I had all my plans and research basically situated and here I am. Clueless to the first step. Well besides the initial embarrassment, it was informative. All it takes in searching up a website, copying and pasting and then boom. with a click of a button you have your MP3 music video. The more I'm in this class, the more I feel smarter  like I just opened my third eye. Along with Cap cut I'm going to use other software's. My iPhone consist of many editing apps, it's a shame to not to try and use them. I'm thinking of iMovies. Like Cap cut, I've used to it in the past. However, it was only once, and on a l borrow...