AICE Media Studies

  How does your product use or challenge conventions AND how does it represent social groups or issues?  My final product uses similar conventions to the songs in the R&B genre. In other music videos of the R&B genre they use their music videos to tell a heartfelt story. In our final product, we used similar convictions, such as using a non-diegetic sound to convey the message instead of singing along to it. Like other music videos of the same genre, the acting was based on the lyrics of the song. Since the lyrics of Thinkin Bout You are talking about a past relationship, we used the lyrics of the song to tell the story of a teen still stuck on their ex-relationship. Our music video represents the teen social group. The issue presented is the main actor is going through a series of emotions due to them still wanting to talk to their ex. This represents the teen demographic throughout the video by the use of costumes, acting, and props. The costumes used are what the te...

This is my music video. Thinkin Bout You by Frank Ocean. Hope you enjoy!

 Hey Bloggers, it's Laudjah! It's been hectic and fun all at once. Filming was fun, but now it's time it finish up the "hard" part. Which is editing. Even though I've been trying to push it off I can't anymore. It's time to get it done. I'm not the most tech savvy person. This fact shouldn't affect me though. Like I said perviously I'm using CapCut for editing and it hasn't been so bad. I got all the videos off of Maria phone and then starting looking through the ones on my phone. I had to go through and delete the bloopers so I wouldn't get it mixed up with the cut making it in. I then took all the clips and put it on CapCut. I put it on the app the wrong way and had to re-do it. No biggie though! I'm just glad CapCut isn't hard to use, or else I would've lost it. I just put it onto the app again and made sure to do it right this time. Although it hasn't been too hard of a project to do I have still been stressing o...