AICE Media Studies

 How does your product use or challenge conventions AND how does it represent social groups or issues? One convention we challenged is mental health. Through our music video "Stressed Out" we were able to challenge and show how teenagers in the modern age challenge a mental illness, even though all the hardships they go through. To challenge this idea, we showed the past and how much time has changed. It showed how much easier life was when we were younger and the struggles that can happen in such a short amount of time. This can represent the lower social class going through hard times throughout life. Money can be hard to get as time goes on and jobs can be harder to find, this can cause depression and emotional despair as life goes on. This music video shows both sides of the spectrum, one side of the hardships of growing up and another side of being young and having fun.   How does your product engage with audiences AND how would it be distributed as a real text media? ...

                         This is the second project done and dusted. I think we did very well when it comes to production and and we managed our time. There was some stuff we could have easily improved on but for our second time i think it was amazing. Overall it was a great experience and I cant wait for the next task that gets thrown at me. Till next time.

It is time for another blog. Today I will talk about my experience editing the blog. Last time we edited a blog a groupmate did it this time I am going to edit it. Recently I have been practicing my editing and think I did well. I was thinking to edit with iMovie on my phone but decided to change to adobe. Using adobe, I can easily use it on my computer and will not show a watermark. I started editing the day after filming to finish before the deadline. I managed to finish in one day after getting sent all the footage. We had tons of footage to use and even didn't use some. I did have some trouble editing. The main problem was getting the footage to my computer. Since we recorded on a phone, we would have to send it via email which takes a while to download and send. Matching the song to the different clips took the most time because I wanted it to look as good as possible . But once I got over that hurdle it was smooth sailing. The main thing I was working on was the transit...

Welcome to my production blog. We finished recording our music video and it was amazing. Our simple idea became something really cool. We had a bit of trouble in the beginning of the video because we were laughing and messing up. But we started to get the hang of it and were able to progress fast. When arriving at Ryan's house it was a lot bigger than I thought, including the backyard. We started recording immediately so we could finish quickly. It was a Sunday, so we had school the next day. We all had separate roles in the video whether it was in the video or recording. But we all had different chances to do things in the video. Sometimes we would swap Filmer's or actors in the video. Following the details, we had in mind also worked well. We followed our story board, and it was easier throughout. We changed some stuff to add more to the music video. We also had many people not in our group in the music video playing distinct roles . Like one as a parent or one has a brot...

Greetings, welcome to another blog. Today I will talk about the location of our music video. Our main location is Ryan's house. His house is big and gives up space to record. We would use various places in his house to record. Like using his bedroom to show him getting out of bed or at his desk overloaded with homework. We may even use a location not next to Ryan's house. Next to my house there is a long road we can use. It can be used to ride bikes or have fun to flashback to when we were younger. If we cannot film at Ryan's house, we have a backup plan. We can record at my house or at Griffins house. We both live next to Ryan so it would not be hard to change locations. We Both have enough space to film at our house. But if we film at one location, we must finish so the setting stays the same. Or at least we finish the shot at one place and move on to another. If we cannot finish shooting in one day, we can finish shooting in our free time. Some friends and family members...

It is time for another blog. Today I talk about our schedule for shooting. We tried finding dates that can fit our time, so we all have something to add to the project. Our first date was from November 14th to November 18th. This was used as a planning period for our music video. It gave us time to research what song to do. It allowed us time to fully vision what our music video should be composed of. We also used this time to figure out different roles we will be during the music video. I will most likely be the filmer throughout the video. .Our next date was between November 24th to December 5th. This time was given to filming. Which gave me and my groupmates around 11 days   to film. This gave us enough time to find a day where all of us could comfortably record when no one was busy. Also, if the weather is not good gives us time to reschedule Our final date would be From December 6th to December 16th. This time will be used to edit. This gives us enough time to stick all we r...

Another day another blog. Today we are talking about what we were wearing during our music video. We're not going to wear suits like we did in our last project. It's too formal for what we're trying to go for. We're going to dress more casual as were just living our everyday life. We're also going to try to find clothes that match our younger selves. Whether its clothes when we were younger or just fun look ing clothes. Although that might be a bit harder to do because those clothes don't fit us now. Ripped and raggedy clothes might also be used to show a depressed and hard stage in out life being "stressed out." Make up might also be used to show dark spots. Our parents are also going to be in the video. Since they haven't grown much it will be easier to fit them into their old clothes. We can match some old outfits with pictures in the photo album we're using. Yet we haven't decided who we were using for the photo album. Because the phot...