AICE Media Studies

  Critical Creative Reflection- CCR https://docs.google.com/document/d/17bjLvJ2m-v24d-lA-f1zfdUer_FOCkkGHnYqPGuDe8I/edit?usp=sharing How does your product use or challenge conventions AND how does it represent social groups or issues? Hello everyone and welcome back to the blog! Today I am looking back over my completed music video and reflecting over how everything went. In the creation of my "Viva la Vida" music video by the artist Coldplay, I wanted to go against the grain of traditional music videos by telling a story about someone's struggle with their mental health, a topic which is not often put to use in most music videos, especially involving a man and his mental health. The music video dives into this topic by telling a story of a boy who after goes looking for his friends who's not really real. And after endless searching eventually finds them again, which reinforces the idea that they never came to terms with their mental health and are clearly not doing a

 Hey everyone, this is the final product! Please watch and enjoy the commercial below. 

  Hello everyone, welcome back to the blog! Todays blog will be all about the last few tweaks I added to my music video. This last week was the week where I did all the finishing touches to the music video in the editing phase. I had to get cracking on all the remaining scenes that I didn't touch on last time, all the scenes that were less complicated to edit. Starting with the beach and open field scenes all I had to to was drag and drop them into the video. After that I just had to cut and line up each piece of footage and audio so that it fit nicely in the music video. After that I did the same for the remaining scenes. Those remaining scenes included: the car scene, the friends house scene, the intro scene, the drying off scene, and the sidewalk scenes. Once they were all put in and touched up with some cropping and tweaking the visual portion was mostly done for the music video. To give the visuals a break I started with the audio tweaks. First I had to find the right audio le