AICE Media Studies

Hey y'all! This is my Critical Creative Reflection:   How does your product use or challenge conventions AND how does it represent social groups or issues?   In my research blog, I stated that I want my music video to be in the genre of R&B and Hip-Hop. R&B is a musical genre that combines rhythm and blues that includes elements of pop, soul, hip hop and funk. The song I chose is called “On My Mama” by Victoria Monet and is in the genre of R&B. R&B music videos are usually composed of a type of performance, storyline, or choreography. In my music video, I included mainly choreography. Although, there was no actual storyline. I feel like my music video included the typical conventions that an R&B music video usually has since it had a lot of choreography. Additionally, I wanted my music video to be a fun-loving song. I feel like my music video makes other people, mainly ladies, want to dance. Including choreography generates entertainment and an en...

  Hey y'all! Today I have finally finished this entire process for my music video. The song is called "On My Mama" by Victoria Monet. I hope you enjoy watching it as much as I do! Bye Pookieess!

  Hey y'all! Today I am finishing the production process for my music video. I knew that my goal for today was to finish the editing process for my music video. For this reason I started and competed all of the editing for today. During the recording process, I had my sister record a lot of different takes. She recorded at low level angles and eye-level angles. On one of the low level angle shots I slowed down the speed and zoomed in on the shot to add affect to the scene. In the middle of the music video, I added a insert of another scene to the clip. I wanted to create contrast within my music video. For this reason I made the background black and grey with an effect. While having the forward clip that I inserted still in color. Throughout the music video, I tried to make sure all of the shots had an effect and some type of movement. I included clips that had zoom in effects, fade out's and fade in's. In addition, I included clips with mainly tracking movement to keep the...