AICE Media Studies

Hello and welcome back to Listen it's Asiah so, "Listen it's Asiah".   In my music video I found it best to stick to the genre the music video was in. Which is a R&B/Pop song that was Whitney Huston's style.  As it was a happy and upbeat song and but I also wanted to keep the longing part that one feels when they hear the song. So doing that I kept it plain and simple by putting a mosh of clips together. Whitney's meaning behind her song was her picture someone that was single wishing that they could find that special person for themselves and I wanted to embody this also but from my perspective as from the beginning I have said I want incorporate my friends so I wanted to show them in this showing that I have not found the special person but I have found these soulmates that I would love to dance forever with. Its just a fun loving song about having feelings. So in the  end if there is anything that I want you to take away from my video is it represents w...

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Hello and welcome back to "Listen, It's Asiah." In the last blog, I mentioned that I was going to discuss how everything will turn out. First, I'd like to talk about my sound. I'm still having trouble finding my full sound. I've been listening to the sound while recording, but it works differently on CapCut, to my understanding. I have to download a video from TikTok and then go into the app to extract the sound from the video. The problem I'm facing is that I can't find a video with the full song. I understand that I'm not filming the entire song, but I believe it would be easier to work with and cut from that. However, I keep finding adaptations of the song or it being cut short. I'm determined to keep looking since I already have my clips taken. Next, I've been working on the transitions between shots. In my research on music videos, I noticed they often use a lot of jump cuts. Still, I also want to add my own unique touch to it. I previ...

Hello and welcome back to Listen, It's Asiah. In the last blog, I stated how I was going to address how the rest of my filming went. I was able to get most of the shots that I wanted, just not all that were on the storyboard, but that's why there was a backup in place. I filmed in my neighborhood and used the clips that I already had and just shot them. I chose to keep the shots I have and just add on to that. It wasn't as hard as I thought it was going to be when having to change things. Now, to finally get to the beginning of my editing. To start, I had a bunch of clips together. One, because I filmed on separate occasions, it was just a whole bunch of video. So, what I did was find where I wanted every video, and I had to place them in the song. I did end up getting rid of a couple of shots here and there or trimming a few seconds from some clips as needed. But after all this was decided, I moved on to the music to make sure everything lined up, and the videos matched th...

Hello and welcome back to Listen It's Asiah, so Listen its Asiah. In the last blog, I stated that I was going to be filming that day, well I was unable to have my break was not as long as I thought it was going to be. With that in mind I made it my priority to film the following day and this I was able to do. I started filming after school with the help of my mother. I was able to get two different shots I wanted the one with me pushing my hands down. An another with me just singing the song and dancing. I have come to realize that it is going to be a lot harder than expected to get the shot that I had initially wanted with me placed in the middle of the street as there are cars. So instead of getting the shot with me and putting my hands down in the street, we had settled outside a store. The reason I chose this spot was because of the lightning as the sun was setting so I knew it would be perfect for the line "and the sun brings to fade". I filmed at around 6 o'cloc...

Hello and welcome back to Listen its Asiah, so Listen its Asiah. My first day of filming was a little rock as my day began with testing at school so I had to figure out a way to get to my filming location. This shot that I talked about being in my friend's room with us on the bed.  This is the first one of the lines "I wanna dance with somebody". I had ended up walking to my friend's house after testing which was a ten-minute walk. I should have filmed then but I can make up that shot sometime this week. But when filming this shot with my friend we were placed in a two-person shot. I never got around to locating a tripod so we had to prop the phone up on her gaming chair. when this failed to work we used the chair and a water bottle to place the phone on. This had put the phone had a low angle which was not ideal as I wanted a high angle but I had to make due with my resources as we did not have another person to hold the phone. With this, it took us a couple of times...

 Hi and welcome back to listen its Asiah, so listen its Asiah. Okay so the last blog I said that I had planned to have started filming, I lied. No okay so I didn't lie as thing have gotten in the way and I was unable to counter them or control the extraneous variables. As one of the friends that i had planned on filming with had a last minute trip to New Jersey. So I clearly could film with her. Then I realized that I have rehearsals all week after school do I wasn't going able to film then which is completely my fault. But I have not let this hold me back and have planned to film after school on Monday because it s half day st school do I'll be able go somewhere with my friends to film. With that being said this means my mother will only have to pick me up and not have to drop off or get other people. I was planning on filming on the Tuesday after that to as there is not school that day but I will be going to school for testing. That will only last about a hour an a half a...