AICE Media Studies

  Analyzing. 1. How does your product use or challenge conventions AND how does it represent social groups or issues?  - The video is similar to a musical since there is a girl singing but I like to think it is more drama in a sense of genre. When I mean by drama I mean acting out emotions and scenes in order to enhance the emotion you see through the screen. Things like editing, transitions, lighting, settings, costumes, props, angles of the camera, and so on made all this raw footage come together. Without it is simply a girl standing looking into a camera. Lighting can change everything in my opinion, without it you are missing out on tons of the emotions. Things with darker lighting or foggy lighting tend to give more negative emotions. The opposite of that would be bright lighting and it would give more of a positive emotion. So when it comes to describe the genre of the video solely I would give it more a drama code and a depressing code since of the emotions...

I finished! Starting this project alone was obvious risk, I knew that. The amount of workload that comes with these projects is immense in a way especially if you are doing it alone. The song I choose was the girl next door by Maggie Lindemann for various reasons. When I first heard the song a couple months ago I loved so much because it was simple in a way. The lyrics painted an image in my head and when I tried looking for a music video, it didn't have one. It had a lyric video but that was enough to give me a start on how the video would look like. First off, I looked like it was filmed with a VHS camera so I did some research on them and how the video looks after filming the video. I did the storyboard, recorded it, took notes on what happened those days, edited, and here it is the outcome. Go watch it! Please and Thank You! Signing Off, Kay.

  I made it! Let me get this straight, the program I am using is Adobe Premiere Pro 2023. It's a amazing software to edit with and overall do countless of things with the software. When I downloaded, to say the least I was naive. Bare in mind that I never have used this software ever. I even thought "I am Adobe Photoshop certified I should be fine" the whole time while downloading Premiere Pro since it is made by the same company. I was wrong! I struggled the past couple of days. I had to look up tutorials on the simplest things. Things like the scale of the video, which I didn't know you had to do until I imported all the footage. I tried to look for loop holes but I couldn't find any viable ones that would work. So while editing the shots together I had to look up a couple of things so this whole thing can come together and actually work. Since I looked up tutorials on YouTube and other platforms I missed the thing that would torment me for 30 minutes. There was...

  Lighting is everything in my opinion! This the second half of editing. To say the least I mainly focused on the lighting, the length and height of the video, plus the effects that it make it look like a VHS. So the first thing I did was change the color. I upped the temperature and saturation. I also lowered the tint as well in order to make it look kind of soft. Now the lighting, which I need to get right. Let's start with the first thing I raised which is the contrast. The thing I didn't change was the highlights and shadows since it didn't look right when I raised it or lowered it. But I did lower the whites more than the blacks in order to achieve the soft look with just the lighting. I did this with every clip so it looks the same and no clips look out of place. The next thing I did in order to enhance that it looks like it was filmed by a vintage camera. So I added Noise which made the video have a grainy look to it. I also found that Channel Blur worked well. It ad...

  This is going to save everything! Let's start with the first thing I did, I downloaded all the raw footage. I then put it into Adobe Premiere Pro because I have that at my disposal. When I started this, I knew I had one thing in mind which was to get the footage to get into a sequence with the music. I downloaded the music then which I think I should've done earlier but here we are. I found this quite difficult because I didn't want the music to just cut during the lyrics. I looked for the best place to cut the audio and I did.  This came with another problem, I wanted the music to fade out and fade in. So, I added the affects in the front and the end in order to this.  So, that is what I did. I put everything in order so it goes with the storyboard and the lyrics along with the beat of the music. I cut and trimmed everything so it would fit. I also trimmed down the height and the length of the footage because I want it to look like it came out of a VHS tape so black bo...

  Lethologica. I can't even remember the words to describe my thoughts on the filming. I am going to just say it, I don't like being filmed. My friends do try to take pictures of me but I just run away because I just don't like it. Ever since I was little I hated taking pictures or videos! It is embarrassing to me, and I try to stay away from phones and cameras. To say the least this was difficult, every single shot was embarrassing for me to film. The good thing about this was that I knew if I wanted to get this over with, I needed to do everything right. This came with a disadvantage of course, since I tried to get it over with quickly. Due to that fact I didn't have as much shots to make me comfortable with the results. This is 100% going to lead to problems later. Right now, I am hoping and praying that editing does the magic. This music video does relay on mainly editing, things light lighting and filters will be added during this time. So throughout the whole time...

That is a wrap! Today was difficult. I mentioned the last time that I thought it wasn't going to be as difficult but I was proven horribly wrong. Today I was filming the shots that are inside of a bedroom of the actor and the one that has to do with the door and mirror. I will go in order from which ones I filmed. The first scene was the one of her up against the door. This then it panning into her room to show her room that is completely untouched. The scene of the actor up against the door was fairly easy it took around 5 takes which wasn't bad. The room panning into her room and it panning around to show her room, I think was the easiest today which took around 2-3 takes. The camera then stops at the window and I cut it there. I then record around 10 second video of the window which then I will add text through editing. The next scene was the sunset and it getting dark which can easily be filmed so I am not worried about it. The next scene is her in her bedroom it looks lik...