AICE Media Studies

  1. How does your product use or challenge conventions AND how does it represent social groups or issues? When deciding to use the song “Good Days” by SZA, I wanted to use my personal interpretation of the song to transform my surroundings into that interpretation. I feel as if the song means that everyone struggles to feel a connection to their surroundings every now and then. The way SZA is consistently seen bonding and connecting with nature really resonated with me. By using the peaceful and beautiful environment as my setting, I feel as though it represents the solution to a problem. Despite having had the option to record the music video at my local park, I still decided that I really wanted to make my music video unique to me.To accomplish that, I went to an amazing Japanese style Botanical garden, which I felt captured the message very clearly. In the music video, I wanted to show myself going out and exploring new territory, whether it be represented mentally or physicall...

 Hi everyone!!!! I'm super excited to finally be able to show you guys my final product!! I worked super hard on the editing and I put a lot of effort on this project. I really hope you guys enjoy this video as much as I do! I'm super proud of the way it turned out! Enjoy!

 Hi guys! As the edits I talked about in the last blog, not much changed since. I updated the video and added more effects and transitions. Along with better blending it with the song. Which I am very proud of my general, overall improvement since my last video. Since I upgraded editing software I felt like I was more free to express what I wanted to make. As iMovie is good, I believe it is for beginners and it has a road block once you learn all it has to offer. I upgraded to a product called Sony Vegas Pro (SVP), which one of my friends recommended. It was completely different from iMovie. It was a lot more of a editing style and was very hard to learn at first but my friend also showed me how to use it and I was even able to use transitions better and have it high quality. I did have problems with it rendering however. When I was rendering, it downscaled the quality by a bunch and I was very unsure why it was doing that. I made sure the frames per second (FPS) and the bitrate w...

  Hi guys!! Hope you're all having a fantastic day today! Editing the video sure had its challenges. I am currently working on editing it and I have tried my best to work on transitions and for the videos and audio to mix well with the song.  For instance at the start, during the beat drops I made it so it switched to different videos giving it a nice effect.  This allowed me to play with the video and audio clips to my liking and it ended up making a very nice finishing touch to parts of the video. As some parts of the song were slow with lyrics while other parts were more fast paced with a faster beat it made it hard to use the clips. However, I am sure glad that I recorded way too many videos at the Japanese Garden, it allowed me to use a bit from almost every video which was cool to me. I wanted to combine this song and the breathtaking garden together because I believed that they have similar aesthetic. After almost being done editing, I believe that to be the case...

 Hi guys!! I hope you're all having a great day so far!!! This weekend, me and Franshesca went to the gardens!! We got plenty of material and we also had plenty of fun!   To be honest, I'm so glad she was able to help me out with this project. Not only did she help me with the biggest part of my project, she also made the whole experience super fun for me!   To begin with, this garden was so beautiful. I've been to the garden once before, but wow. It somehow gets prettier every time I go. The plants were all green and healthy, and the flowers were all bloomed. I almost forgot we were in fall. I'll insert some pictures we took at the gardens!   As for the clips we shot, we recorded a bunch of closeups of the plants. We made an extra effort to also capture shots of the leaves and how the sun shined through them. I think we really did a good job with recording the nature portion of the video. We got closeups, long shots, point of view shots, and many more!   E...

  Hiiii guys!!! I hope you guys are having a great day so far! I have GREAT news! I have a buddy! Well, I don't have a official partner, but my friend in A Level is helping me with the filming for my music video! Her name is Franshesca!  Franshesca is going to be coming with me soon to the gardens, she's going to help me and be my cameraman. Since she took Mediastudies AS level already, she can also help me with ideas for different ways of recording the plants!    Since my last update, I've decided to change a few more things in regards to the scenes of the music video. Since I won't necessarily be moving around from place to place, I decided to cut the scenes where I'm driving. Since I'm the one who will be driving, I think this will be the safest thing to do considering the circumstances.   Again, like I said, due to the change I was presented with last blog, I have to change the original plot of the movie. The movie will be mostly centered around the gar...

 Hi guys! I hope you guys are having a good day thus far! I, unfortunately, come with bad news. My dad is unexpectedly going out of town for a month and will not be able to go with me to the gardens. Since my parents are separated and my sister is on my dad's side, I won't be able to record the shots that were supposed to have her in them. I already recorded some clips but, thankfully, they weren't any major clips that took a long time to shoot.  With this major change, I'm going to have to make a few changes to the original storyboard of the music video. Instead of it being the main character's birthday, it'll just be a day spent at the Morikami Museum and Japanese Gardens. No matter what, I will definitely be getting the recordings at the garden.   With this change, I'll also probably have to make the gardens the actual "main character." Instead of the music video centering itself around the birthday of a main character and how she spent the day,...