AICE Media Studies

Hello World, These are my responses to the Critical Creative Reflection Questions :) How does your product use or challenge conventions AND how does it represent social groups or issues? For my music video, I somewhat challenged conventions. In my genre and the songs that I used for my research blog, they mainly demonstrated more of a generally happy feeling when it comes to a boy and a girl, whether it be in a relationship or attraction in general. But something that is rarely seen in these music videos is the darker areas of relationships including manipulation, gaslighting, and desires that are not mutual. For my music video, I chose the song “Love Me” by Justin Bieber, and for the music video, I wanted to show a bit of that not-so-happy area of relationships or between people in general that people tend to avoid showing. The way that I interpreted to song was that the guy was declaring his love for the girl he likes and kept insisting for her to love him, telling her where she shou...

Hello World, This is my music video!!!! I hope you enjoy it Giovanna Pereira :)

Hello World, This is part 2 of the editing process. A bunch of shortening and removing scenes were done. Our video was too long, so for some scenes like the escalator scene we had to cut it down quite a bit along with speeding up some of the scenes as well. At first, I had to cut out the dancing scene. I was really upset about removing it but after making some tweaks, I was able to add it in again!!!! One of the biggest problems that I ran into was the audio. I had to record the audio 3 TIMES. The first time that I attempted to record the video, the audio wouldn't stop. For the second time, the audio was barely audible, meaning I could barely hear it. But thankfully, the third attempt worked since I screen-recorded it, however, I had to make adjustments since it wasn't properly aligned with the music video. There were some scenes that we had to completely remove including the first escalator scene, the scene of the main character seeing his crush for the first time that day and...