AICE Media Studies

 1. How does your product use or challenge conventions AND how does it represent social groups or issues? The music video was about a group of friends and how after a while 2 people in the group started dating and are happy together. This could challenge the idea that dating someone within a friend group is bad and can lead to problems. In the video, it shows that the 2 friends that started dating were happy and nothing bad was happening. 2. How does your product engage with audiences AND how would it be distributed as a real media text?  People can relate to the music video because something similar might've happened to them before in their life. The part in the music video where one friend texts the rest of their friends and ask to hang out and then later they all are together and hanging out is something that most friend groups do nowadays. 3. How did your production skills develop throughout this project?  This project helped me develop my filming skills since I was m...

Here is the music video! I hope you enjoy watching it as much as we enjoyed filming it!

 It is Friday, December 18. The final production blog. What a journey it has been filming this music video. I've had a lot of fun and so have my group mates. Juliana said she would be so kind and edit the video. We are very thankful for her, to be on a trip and still editing our video what a good group buddy. We all pitched in ideas for how the video should take place. We managed to decide on what scenes belonged to each part of the song. And we also managed to get the pan shot that we were missing. This video will be done by Monday which is the due date for the music video. I am excited to see the final product and hope we did a good job. I am proud of myself and my group for all the work we've done. Even with the midterms being next week we still managed to get it done. I am a little nervous about next week's midterms. But I hope that ill be just fine. Anyways, it's been quite the journey and a sorta stressful one. Argentina and France play each other in 2 days so I...

 Today is Thursday, December 18. Yesterday France played in the semi-finals against Morocco. And surprisingly France won! It's surprising because of how good Morocco was doing. No team had scored on Morocco all tournament but like all things, it must come to an end. No matter how much I was rooting for Morocco to win I can't deny that Sunday's game with Argentina and France will be nerve-wracking. Anyway, we fixed the problem with the pan shot. We all came to an agreement that someone would record a pan shot of their room. That way we don't need to plan arrangements to see each other. Since we are all busy this was our best option. Jocelyn decided to do the pan shot of their room. We are all grateful for Jocelyn. I have been making suggestions on what clips and where in the song they should be put. We are testing the scene with the song to make sure it fits. Hopefully, it does and it makes sense to anyone who watches it. I feel like we did a pretty decent job with our m...

Today is Wednesday, December 14. Yesterday Argentina played in the world cup semi-finals and thankfully won! I am very happy and excited about the final I hope that Argentina can win since it could be Messi's final world cup and he hasn't won a world cup yet. Anyway, I looked over the footage with the group and we are still deciding on exactly what clips to use. We are all stressed and I can tell. Who can blame us? With midterms around the corner, we are all anxious and worried wondering if we will do good. I've been studying a lot lately for my midterms. Hoping that I will do good and end the semester strong. We might need to go out and film another day though because we realized that we missed a shot that we needed for the film. We are still trying to figure out what to do since Juliana left for Brazil already and she was one of the main actors. I think we can come up with something though and hopefully soon. We are close to coming to a decision on the clips that will be ...

 Today at school it was a white day. I don't really enjoy my white days for many reasons. Having the white day made me start to worry about next week and midterms and realize I have a lot of work to do. Next week is midterm week and the week before winter break. I am excited about winter break but worried about midterms. I am worried that I won't do good on the midterms and then that I won't end the semester well. I hope that I will do good on all of my midterms. Next week I will study all day and night and week. I will still try my best to contribute to the music video project as well as I can. Our music video is coming along pretty well at the moment. Right now we are trying to get the correct audio for our music video so it sounds good. We are almost close to getting the right music at the right times with editing but we are still working on it. I am studying and working on making sure that my grades are the best they can be. I hope that I end this quarter and semester s...

 Today we were able to film. On Sunday night we all agreed and decided to film on Monday which is today. We went to school and after school, we met up at a location nearby. The location we decided to meet up by was dairy queen. We recorded a scene at dairy queen. It took us a few tries before we were able to get the right one. Then we went to a store nearby that sold empanadas. We recorded a scene there but still are debating if we are going to use it. This also took us a few tries to get right. We later went to a nearby park to get a different scene that we are going to use. While we were walking we filmed George and Juliana walking a bit and plan on using it. Oh yeah, George and Juliana are the two people mainly being filmed. Me and Jocelyn were there recording and doing other things.  After the park we went back to dairy queen to film a final clip we might've missed. Overall it was a fun day of filming. I enjoyed being able to be with my group and go to all these different ...

 We havent been able to film yet to be continued..... Hello, my group and I haven't been able to film. We were planning on filming today but I and Jocelyn weren't available. George and Juliana were going to go film by themselves but they didn't end up having enough time. We are still trying to figure out a way to film but ran into too many problems. We have a problem. Juliana is leaving on Tuesday for vacation. With Juliana leaving early we are one group member short. We still plan on getting this project done as well as we can. We also still plan on getting Juliana in the music video in some way. Midterms are coming up so that can cause another problem. It would cause a problem because we would also need to be studying for our midterms. Which could leave less time for us to record. We are trying our best to fix our arrangements so we can film and get this music video done. The song we choose for the music video is "Just The Two Of Us". I am a little worried that ...