AICE Media Studies

 Name: Thomas Smith Creative Critical Reflection 1. How does your product  use or challenge conventions AND  how does it represent social groups or issues?      My project uses the conventions of long slow, panning slows of the actors to its advantage. In doing this, the viewer gets a sense of who the actor is portraying through the speed of the movement of the shot. Unfortunately, I did have to challenge quite possibly one of the most consistent conventions in music videos and that is the actors singing. I wanted my music video to tell a story and I felt that the actors singing directly into the camera would make the video lose its sense f storytelling. Although I did make a compromise, I used another common convention, dancing, in one of my shots to make up for the lack of the actors singing the lyrics. As far as social groups I feel like I couldn't;t have picked a better song and portrayed it better due to the fact that my music video shows a person in a...

      My music video was successful, yet underwhelming. Due to the length that the video had to e confined to, I felt as if my creativity was limited. I had several scenes that I simply couldn't complete due to the length that the video would've ended up with. If I would've shot every scene I wanted to create, I would've been a full minute and 23 seconds past the time limit. I ran into this problem last school year with my Powerpoint video presentation for AICE Global Perspectives, in which I had written down too much information to be presented within the time limit. Fortunately, this assignment was much more forgiving in the sense that I was able to correct any mistakes while they were happening. I felt that all of my scenes did fall into place nicely in the end. Although there was a set of scenes that I felt didn't mesh well with the pacing of the video. This was the scene that showed me as an 11-year-old doing homework. Most of the fault was on my part but I wou...

As filming finally came along, and all of the puzzle pieces started to fall into place, I knew it was time to edit. Editing was smooth like the last time I completed a semi-large project like this. This time, instead of using an external third-party editing app, I used the in-house home-movie application for apple devices, iMovie. Because of this, I was very limited in the editing that I could do and I would have to use tricks to work around all the editing problems with iMovie. Fortunately, I was able to do so and with no hiccups present. I started but ensuring the music video would look cinematic just like the actual music video for the song. And I was able to achieve this by applying a cinematic filter, camp to be specific to the whole movie. One thing about editing this music video that I had to acknowledge from when I started using iMovie was that my transition set would be limited to basic transitions such as jump, slide, swipe, and fade. Knowing that the original music video use...

 As you know, my storyboard was completed after I filmed to have a more natural filming process. Therefore, I had to create shots in a way that they could be easily interpreted into pictures for a storyboard. I knew that by far the hardest scenes to film would be the scenes involving me driving. This was because I don't have a license or permit, meaning if I wasn't driving on private property, I could get into a serious entanglement with the law.