AICE Media Studies

 1.  How does your product use or challenge conventions AND how does it represent social groups or issues? When looking back at the music video I made with my partner Jenna I can see that we did use conventions to a certain extent. With this in mind our music video that we made and released onto our blog wasn’t our first idea. So when looking back at my research blog I can see that all the songs chosen are from Disney. This was because our previous song ‘Ma Belle Evangeline’ is a Disney song. This doesn’t contradict the fact disney songs are pop songs and the song we chose after was also pop. When reviewing the use of sounds, camera angles, editing, etc I can see that we used relative similarities to the music videos we stated such as non-diegetic sound, inserts, soft and heavy lighting, and cut away. When trying to find a meaning of a music video you tend to look at the people and or setting it was filmed. Sometimes people dig too deep. All and all this music video doesn’t re...

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 Hey guys!! Me and Jenna have been working really hard. I have been editing and she has been recording. We are so happy to show you guys the final results of everything. Throughout our ups and downs we still persevered. At the beginning of it all we decided to film with the song 'Ma Belle Evangeline'. We had to scratch that idea since it was time consuming, we lacked actors, and the funds. We were really excited to film with that song but unfortunately, we couldn't. Jenna then got this great idea about filming to 'Never gonna give you up'. This was an easy idea for us both because we had everything we needed already. Jenna has done a great job recording now it's up to me to finish editing. (10) I have been editing the footage rather nicely. I decided to add text to the music video since its popular in most music videos to add emphasis. I also added this effect called velocity to add emphasis on the dogs running. I changed the lighting just a tad bit. It was so t...