AICE Media Studies

1. How does your product use or challenge conventions AND how does it represent social groups or issues? - The song used in my video was “Infrunami” by Steve Lacy, it is in the genre of Rnb/soul & alternative. In these genres of music, there are often camera angles of close-ups in long and slow slower movements. This practice persisted throughout my video. One example of this is in the very first scene of the video, there is a wide shot establishing the scene, and the camera is rotating in a long and slow motion. This genre of music [videos] also regularly has costumes that have a “matching” vibe to the lyrics/meaning of the song. This was also present in my video. All of the actors’ outfits were inspired by the song itself and its “fall” and “calm” vibe. The reason all of these things were included was to make sure the video and song [lyrics] were connected and were able to tell a story. One social issue that was present in my music video was the issue of internal battles. In cert...

This is the final product of the music video my peers and I made. It took us a lot of time to prepare, shoot, edit, and finalize, but in the end, we all really liked the results.

Hi bloggers! Welcome back to my blog, in this one, I will do what I promised: talk about my editing process. For clarification, I was set as the editor for my group's music video. In my previous blog, I was speaking on part of the process. And in this blog, I'll tell you guys the rest of the process. To edit I relied heavily on the app Capcut.  Capcut is something I am very familiar with since I have used it numerous times. This app allowed for my journey with putting the video together to be smooth. To start, I had to insert all the clips into Capcut. This took some time because there were many clips. After adding the clips, I put them in the order that would make the most sense. This part was one of the shorter tasks of the project. This is because there was already an agreement as to which order the clips would be in. I then clipped some videos and lengthened others to make it the whole project flow. Previously I said the app I relied on the most was Capcut, but Tiktok was a...