Danniella Miller AICE Media Studies

How does your product use or challenge conventions AND how does it represent social groups or issues? My project definitely challenges conventions instead of using them. The whole video is shot as a love story, which the audience might think is between two people. The actor also used love as a way to pull themselves out of their depressive ideals. For most people, that might be a significant other or a friend, but for the actor in this video it was themselves. The idea of this video was the expression of self-love, and I did my best to show how helpful it can be to someone struggling. As for social issues, this video wanted to show how there is almost a pandemic of self-hatred nowadays. People are depending on others for their happiness when there needs to be a focus on looking internally for that help. How does your product engage with audiences AND how would it be distributed as a real media text?  My project engages with the audience by subverting their expectations. As the...

 Here is my final music video. Wow, this was a wild ride. I learned so much during the making of this video. Through a semi-unreliable neighbor, I learned to plan things with people you know you can trust, and if you can't find anyone just go with yourself. I was forced to explain my idea to someone else in order to get the result I wanted, which ended up being definitely better than anything I could do myself.  I learned the hard way how important it is to save my projects. I really hope I never have to deal with a lost project again. I've seen how important the save button now is and I'll be sure to use it more regularly. I also got to work on editing to the music. In the tedious manner I edited the video, I made the video look more cohesive with the music. It took a lot of time and effort, but in the end, I got a better project I'm proud of. Another big thing was making sure the story fit into the minute-long time slot I had. It was rough at the beginning trying to c...

 So, since my last blog, quite a bit has happened. I managed to lose all my progress on my video. Now, let me explain. I was editing my video and decided to render it so I would be able to watch it without having to let it load. So, as I'm waiting for the video to render, a message pops up that my computer is about to die. Usually, I have a couple of minutes to plug it in, but it ended up dying right away and basically reset. I immediately plug my computer in and turn it back on. As I open up Premiere, my work on the music video was completely gone. I was completely shocked and upset. I started looking up how to recover my work because all that it said I had done was import my files into the program. All of the tedious editing to the lyrics was gone. I'm looking through every file on my computer, every possible place where it could be. The reason I hadn't saved a separate copy and knew where it was was due to the fact that I was relying on the auto-save feature, but I didn...

 As of right now, I've started editing my music video. I had a lot of issues trying to align the music and finding what part of the music I wanted to use. I knew I wanted to edit to the music, with the scene switching every time the lyrics changed. This was also a little hard because if I changed the music placement, I would have to redo all the clips that I edited to the music previously. Originally, in my storyboard, I had another scene planned where the actor would be cloud gazing with the camera. I ended up being unable to film it the same day as I filmed the rest of my clips since the sun had nearly completely set by the time we were done with everything else. The next day was very cloudy and rainy, so I didn't want to film either and instead started doing a rough editing job and just vaguely putting clips where I wanted them. During this stage, I realized that if I started the video when maye starts signing, the one-minute video will end at an awkward place in the middle ...