AICE Media Studies

 How does my product use or challenge conventions and how does it represent social groups or issues? The type of music we used for our project was Grunge music.  Grunge music typically has darker themes and their music videos are usually include sad visuals and instrumentals.   Our music video followed the convention of including depressing visuals.  After the dog was stolen from the actor, it showed flashbacks of the dog and the actor.  Each flashback was paired with a depressing shot of the actor in the same places but without the dog.  On the other hand, our video defied the convention of including instrumentals.  This was mostly because we didn't have any instruments or experience using them and we wanted to focus on the narrative and mood more.  If we included singing or instrument-playing, it would have ruined the immersion of the narrative.   Our music video does well at representing social groups.  For example, the vide...

This is my music video.  My partner that I worked together with to complete this project was Nicholas Arnold.  The song we used was "Boulevard of Broken Dreams" by Green Day.  The project was long, took a lot of planning, and required us to think outside of the box.  I am glad to have worked with Nicholas because he was a great help and our different talents benefited each other well.  For example, I am better at filming and planning the filming while Nicholas is better at editing.  Because of this, I filmed most of it and Nicholas did the editing.  We both helped greatly during both parts of the project.  Also, without the help of my family, we would not have been able to film as good of a music video as we did. I am very proud of the job we did when it came to the planning.  It took us multiple days to plan out the filming and what scenes we wanted to make.  One would propose ideas and the other one would either approve it or deny it a...

The editing process for our music video was very important to us.  However, since I had most of the filming pieces on my devices, my partner, Nicholas Arnold, did most of the editing.  That being said, i still did help him and we worked together on it to make it the best that we could. The first step to beginning any editing process is to dump your videos onto a computer to upload to the editing software.  In our project, I uploaded all of the clips to the cloud so Nicholas could access them for editing.  Before the editing, however, Nicholas and I had multiple in-depth discussions on which scenes would be put where and in what order the music video was going to be presented in.  We took all of this into consideration when filming.  Afterwards, Nicholas used editing software to upload all the clips.  In our case, we made more clips than we used so there was a lot of choice during editing.  As aforementioned in previous blogs, the most important sh...

 In my last blog, I detailed the process and dilemmas of the longest scene in the music video: the climax scene.  I described it in such detail because it was the defining shot of the music video.  However, I did not shed any light on most of the other shots I used.  The other scenes we used were broken into three categories.  They were establishing shots, pre-climax scenes, and post-climax scenes. The establishing shots were short scenes mostly of the road where the climax scene happened.  Multiple establishing shots were taken of the road.  However, only one was used in the final product.  That shot was the pan down from the sky to the empty road.  The purpose of the shot was to establish the setting so the watcher doesn't get confused by the sudden change of setting from the front door to the road.  The shot was a pan down from the sky to the empty road.  The other establishing shots were similar but had no place in the final pro...

 In our previous blog, I sketched up a storyboard to guide my filming for my music video.  I discussed how the song I am using is Boulevard of Broken Dreams and that it is a Grunge song.  The majority of the storyboard sections were used to illustrate establishing shots and the important climax scene where the dog gets stolen.  Before going into filming, I knew the climax scene would be the hardest to film. My role in filming was to be the actor.  Nicholas took up the other roles.  Before the twenty second walking scene, establishing shots had to be filmed.  We filmed shots of the road with and without the actors, the sky, and me walking out of the house with the dog.  The dog used in the blog was a Goldendoodle, not a Labradoodle as I had previously stated.  In preparation for shooting, we took time to scout out a road suitable for the scene.  That meant the road had to have little traffic, long length, and room for camera operators....

  These are roughly the 12 "parts" of the music video divided into scenes, all about 5 seconds long each. 1. The video will start with the main character coming out of the front door with his dog on a leash next to him. This will be the instrumental first 4 seconds before the lyrics start. 2. The first scene will cut to a wide shot of the street, panning and following the boy and the dog walking. This second scene will begin right when the lyrics start, and the camera will focus to a shadowy figure in the background. 3. This shadowy figure comes from off screen and grabs the leash from their hands, running away with the dog. They cannot stop this from happening as they are in shock at what happened. 4. This scene is just a zoom in of the main character who mouths "NOOOO" into the sky. At this point the shadowy figure has run off, and it has left him in great despair. 5. The scene fades to a black and white flashback of the dog, doing normal activities such as w...

  The song we are going to use for our music video is "Boulevard of Broken Dream" by Green Day.  In preparation for the music video filming, we have to plan out the process.  Before planning, however, it is extremely helpful to do research on the type of music video we will be filming.  Before researching music videos, we have to narrow down the type of video because their are many different types of music videos that would provide irrelevant information.  Some genres of music videos include, Indie, Pop, R$B, and hip hop.  The genre of the music video we are using is the grunge genre.   There are many common tropes among music videos involving the grunge genre. After researching music videos from Green Day, I have seen similar themes between them. Most of the video length is usually taken up by the band performing into the camera with their instruments. In between scenes it cuts to the band performing a full on concert, either in an enclosed room ...