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Planning Storyboard for my Music Video

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The first scene-the camera is at a low level at someone's feet at a Walmart. It might be a Target but the first scene is any type of store. The second scene- Then someone is picking out some party items in the specific aisle. It includes birthday hats, soda, decorations,, and more. The third scene- Now the camera is zoomed up on the items as the person is picking them out on the shelf. She picks out the cake, party hats, and balloons. The fourth scene-  Then someone goes in the card aisle and pics at a birthday card. The camera is focused on the card shelfs and all you see is the hand reaching to the card.  The fifth scene- Then someone goes to the freezer aisle and gets ice cream. This time the camera is catching the person and the freezer. The sixth scene- This is where the person is paying all the items that are being bought. The items include all the birthday party decorations and necessities. The seventh scene- This is where two or more people are walking or driving to th...

Planning for my music video

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Birthday- by Katy Perry Props: Since as a group we decided to work on a birthday music video, our main prop will birthday accessories. such as balloons, confetti, fake birthday presents, etc... Other props we will include will be bags and possibly cupcakes or other type of foods like chips.  Costumes: In our music video we will have 2 different costumes for each actor. The first costume will be a casual outfit, something that people would wear to school. The second costume will consist of nice pretty clothing. Something along the lines of a either a dress or jeans and a polo shirt.  Schedule:  11/12/21, our group researched the Music video 11/16/21, our group planned the music video  11/19/21, our group will create the storyboard for the music video 11//21, our group will film and record necessary shots 11//21, our group will edit and add final touches to the music video  Location List: Our first few shots will be in a park by the school. Here we will film the f...

Research blog: Music video conventions

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Together my group and I decided to do the song "birthday" by Katy Perry. The audience will see how different themes can be associated with birthday parties for example in the video singer Katy Perry goes to birthday parties surprising unsuspecting people on their birthday. she uses many different outfits to disguise herself in the music video. -Costumes will depend on the scenes they are either going to be casual clothes or nice outfits -Props include balloons, party hats, probably cupcakes and confetti. -The music through the commercial is a high pace song to get people's attention and to feel the quick actions in the commercial  1. "happy birthday" is a phrase that brings joy to people since its their time to celebrate and have fun without worrying about their daily life for a whole day 2. In the music video the props are always angled to show the audience the video is about birthdays without stating its going to be about birthdays. 3. Birthday Music Videos wi...

A group?! interesting...

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  I know I said I don't usually work in groups but I want to have an open mind. So, I am in a group of three for my project. My group members are Naiara, Melvin, and myself. We have been working on planning our project and ideas to film together for a while now. We already have several ideas planned out. Another thing we planned out was our types of camera shots. I'm glad I chose a group as we have made great progress. I have known about Naiara since middle school in 7th grade. I met Melvin in sunrise middle school. I have a lot of hope as I believe my group works very efficiently. I would like to be the camera man in the group and assign roles to different group members. I'd want either Naiara or Withly to storyboard and draw as I am not good at drawing. My group doesn't have much experience filming with professional cameras. I am creative and I already have an idea about how I want the project to look like. We also came up with many backup plans in case so...

We're Back!!

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  My name is Withly and this is my intro blog. I am in the AS level and this is my first year taking a class that has to do with filming. I usually don't take classes like these, but I wanted to try something new this year. I'm a sophomore and graduating in 2024 and hopefully getting the AICE diploma. I was born on January 16, 2006 and for my age, I think I’m very mature. I wasn't born in America but was born in Haiti. I really enjoy performing arts so I feel like this correlates in some way. Some examples of performing arts are singing and dancing. my favorite colors right now are green and pink because i feel like they're pretty colors and they compliment my skin. Working with people with any project Is never a problem and could help me more. I think it really depends on the people. For example some people may not do anything and that may effect others. I think i would decide to work by myself most of the time. I don't have to worry on depending on people. It'...

Reflection Questions

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  1.       How does your product use or challenge conventions AND how does it represent social groups or issues? This product challenges different types of people to use different utensils that have a better quality. It allows people to have an open mind with using a gel pen instead of a regular pen. This can open up their creativity with the different writing methods. for example people that sign a contract could change up their signatures. Also students that take notes in class with pens can organize the notes with paper mate gel pens . This represents different social groups by people that work in jobs that have to do with signing papers, school, and people that write and take notes. 2. How does your product engage with audiences AND how would it be distributed as a real media text? The purpose is to tell them about a change in what you usually do which in this case is a different pen. it is also to convince them that maybe their pens that they're...

Final commercial!!

  This is the final commercial. I think I did really good based on working by myself. The video is clear which I am happy about. As previously stated this commercial is about papermate. Paper mate is a brand that has to do with pens gel pens and more. I chose a regular paper mate pen to do a commercial on. This choice didn't really have much options for me so I made it very simple. It went over 30 seconds by 5. It's not like a usual typical commercial because of how simple it is. Most commercials have acting and people inside of it. But this one is mostly writing. I was worried about how the video wouldn't be clear. But all I needed to do was downloaded it. When I finished downloading the video and exporting it and made it automatically clear. While editing it it was buffering and it was pixelated. I learned a lot about filming this commercial. One of them is it takes a lot of skill. When it comes down to learning about editing filming and more, it takes a lot. Next time I...