AICE Media Studies

Heres my CCR. Have a great break ! 

This music video was extremely fun to make, it might've been the best project I've did in this class so far. For this project I worked by myself and it was spectacular indeed ! Just being able to have my own schedule and be able to use the ideas, song that I wanted to use is what made this 10 times more enjoyable. I decided to make a gospal video, because that is my favorite genre and being able to do what I want and be creative and used one of my hidden talents, DANCING, within my video made me happy. Incorporating church and incorporating my beliefs within my music video, really made me happy ! Also, having my brother in this video, helping me out with every part of it really helped me get this done quick and easy. It was really a burden lifted off of me, especially since I worked by myself. All in all, this was extremely fun. I always had a dream to create my own music video and since I've gotten in this class, I've been presented opportunities to do a lot of things

 Today I finished the final pieces of my music video. I went to my church again to finish filming some of the parts of the music video, that I really did not like. Especially the dancing in the church, those films did not really sit right with me so I had to adjust some of those parts. During this process I did face some challenges, like matching up the dancing to the music within the film, was one of the biggest challenges I faced. This part is very tedious and takes serious concentration, in order to properly execute it. This part was the most annoying part, but it ended up making the overall end product look flawless. I had to go do some research on some more subtle and simple transitions, so I don't have to re-use the same ones over and over again. I felt as if a consistent flow of transitions would've made the music video more boring and not as full of life as I wanted. Also, before completing the filming process, I had to color correct some of the clips, to make the overa

Whew, this is definitely my least favorite part. It is so rigorous and extremely time consuming, but hey it has to get done. I started to do some simple, adding the clips to the editing software last night, but I was so tired so I stopped. Today in class, I finished all the transferring of all my clips. I started to do a little more research to better configure the format of my music video. I tried to copy a format but it really wasn't working, so I decide to do something of my own inquisitive. I started to just used my imagination for the placements of my different clips that I had. After all of that was set in place, I started to look for smooth transitions that would match the overall feel of the song, it was a pretty simple process, and all the transitions I selected were more of the simplistic origin and were not so overcrowding. Overall, I got to a good point within my editing for today and when I get home I will definitely continue to edit some more. Day 1 of editing, semi-c

 Today was my second day of filming for my music video, it wasn't as technical as the first day of filming, because I had an assigned goal of what I wanted to do. It was the simplest part. I grabbed out story board and placed checkmarks next to the sections I fulfilled in filming. That was majority of my story board, leaving me with only two scene boxes to fulfill. When I went outside, I realized the one of our scene boxes were irrelevant to the message I was trying to bring across. It was the scenery of outside, which didn't really flow with what I wanted to do. I ended up taking it out and moving to the last part of my film and I  added a new closing part. It was really productive and all parts were real tentative to me. I had to make sure each part flowed and looked good, and to make sure everything looked perfect. After I went through the film, and looked over the different shots, I started to transfer some of the videos to our computer, to start the basic editing process.

 Today is Sunday ! I went to church today and decided to start filming my scenes that will take place in the church. It was not a long filming session, but it was very productive. I brought my story board and was able to use that as my guideline within this filming process. I had a try-pod, my ring lights and my box lights. These amenities were totally useful during this project, and the coming together of it. In order to sync the music video with my dancing, I screen recorded the specific part of the song I will be using and continuously replayed it to match up my dancing to the song, this part was extremely time consuming, however in the latter end it came out find. There were many takes and many breaks during this process. Everyone that assisted was completely flexible and understanding during this process. After doing all the filming, we connected the phone to the church TV and watched and went through each of the films and selected the best ones to use. Also, we refilled some part