AICE Media Studies

           In this project, many things have been done that has helped me improved from the last two filming projects that iv'e done in this class. This project was very fun and I learned more things when it comes to media and now I feel like I can do something like this again without have to struggle during the process.                    How does your product use or challenge conventions AND how does it represent social groups or issues? The way that my product challenged conventions was basically by how we used different shots and angles and viewpoints in the music video. We captured clips from the music video from when R Kelly and Usher's moods changes throughout the video. At first you can see that both of them are happy to be speaking to each other and then we get to see how both of their expressions and emotions change throughout that time of the song from being happy to be unconcerned and upset abou...

  This is the second film project I have ever did. I can say that I have made an ample amount of progress since the first one, which was a 30 second commercial. Due to this being my second film project, I didn't run into as many problems as I did the fist time. But, I did encounter a few. One of the problems that my partner and I encountered was actually filming. Due to the pandemic, we couldn't film in the same place like we originally thought we would. Speaking of "we", yes, this project was a partner thing. This was the first film project that I did with a partner. Having a partner made some parts easier. For example, during the first filming project, I had to do all the blogs myself. Having a partner allowed me to catch a break. Having a partner also helped me remember when certain things were due. This particular film project has taught me even more about filming over all. It has taught me how to incorporate different things when doing a long storyboard. It has a...

 During this project, the editing portion was fairly easy. The amount of practice that my partner and I have been doing from other projects has definitely paid off for this major project. The way my partner and I did this music video was at our houses because of safety reasons. We both did our parts at home because in the video, that is how it is shown so it was very easy for us to get our parts in and send it over to each other. My partner, Maiyah Dukes, played R Kelly and her part of the music video was first, so she was introduced first then I was next. She started lip-syncing her part then on the next clip I did the same. For her part, she had a major clip which consisted of 25 seconds. Then when it was my turn, because I played Usher, I also had a major part of speaking. Most of our short clips contained the both of us being introduced or saying something at the same time which was a the beginning and end of the video. The editing process for this was easy, all I had to do was...