AICE Media Studies

  Greetings and salutations! We've officially completed our entire storyboard and I'm thrilled to be able to share it with you! It did not take too long to create because, as mentioned in my earlier group blog, we had already pitched concepts for the music video. This time around, our only concern was ensuring that we could have each of the shots and angles properly visualized to simplify the actual filming process when we got to it.  Scene 1:  In Scene 1, the video will begin without a fade-in and be positioned as a medium shot showcasing the main prop, our subject's cell phone, from an angle to the side. This is done to ensure that there is easier mobility of said prop upon moving it out of the frame during the beat drop. However, prior to doing so, the phone will be turned off and display two pieces of text, the name of the song, "Saturday Nights," and the name of the artist, "Weston Estate," which will both appear at different times, one after anothe

    Hi again! Now that my team and I have established the foundation for our music video, that being the research we conducted regarding the conventions of indie music videos, we can now begin to create our game plan moving forwards. In order to do so, I've chosen to break up each of the necessary points we need to cover into the following sections: Props:     In music videos, very minimal dialogue is used, as mentioned in my previous blog. That then means that selecting the right props becomes of grave importance when attempting to convey a meaningful message in around a minute and a half. Choosing props did not prove to be all that difficult, however, being that our storyline is partially based on the lyrics of the song that we chose to use. Within the song itself, the term “phone” is mentioned multiple times, making it the obvious choice for being our central prop, which is essentially the prop that we will place the most focus on throughout the entire video. Since that was the

  Hello! Today, my group and I began to lay the foundation for our project by conducting thorough research on the common conventions related to our music video. To do so, we first needed to establish the genre of our song, which we determined to be alternative, or as many today call it, indie (the word indie meaning independent, or that an artist is not working in conjunction with a large, mainstream record company). Before beginning, one must first understand that there are three ways in which the indie genre approaches music videos, from either a performative stance, a narrative stance, or a mixture of both stances. Somewhat contrary to the way in which it is named, a performative indie music video concentrates mainly on the artist and their band engaging in a musical performance with the addition of instruments, as opposed to some form of a histrionic production. Said kinds of indie music videos are meant to simulate the feeling of the band is performing live, lipsyncing, and all. T

  The people I’m working with in this project are Yaneli Zelaya, Jordyn Minnis, and Julissa Espinal. So I’m choosing to stick with the same group I worked last time. We worked pretty well together the first time without having any prior experience working together beforehand. It was super hard, but knowing that we had in each other made it worth it. We worked pretty well with each other even if one of us was out. This time around I know we would make some thing great. So I’m not at all worried with working with them again knowing that everyone is super reliable. The name of the song we chose was Saturday nights by Weston Estate. It was actually very shocking to me because I was the one who actually chose the song initially. It wasn’t my original song that I wanted us to do. The song I wanted to do was Amoeba by Clairo. Sadly didn’t get picked but it made it to top 4. We ended up first voting for the songs that we thought we should keep or take out. Then we were left with 4 songs and pr

  Hello, my name is Nicole but most people just call me Nico.  I have many different interests in many different types of media.  I am an avid doll and toy collector.  The types of dolls that I collect are fashion dolls and the types of toys I collect figurines or small collectible items from different brands.  I’m also very much into cartoons, anime, and video games.  I mostly do drawing painting and digital artwork.  I'm super excited to work with my groupmates again. I learned a lot from my last project. I truly experienced the trials and tribulations of trying to make a film. There was a lot of planning and brainstorming. Just to get an idea and we ended up cutting a lot out of the original concepts out.  Not to mention the storyboarding that was happening right after. I spent days on that trying to get everyone's ideas to come across. It was hard trying to get all the angles we wanted on to paper. Then after filming I didn't think it would be that hard to film and act.